About

Let me take you on an artistic journey where colors, shapes, and emotions come together to create a captivating world. My art is a bold fusion of traditional and contemporary, combining classic techniques with digital innovations to create unique creations. As an artist, I draw inspiration from life, with its beauty and fragility. Life itself is a masterpiece of emotions, experiences, and constant change.

A creator at heart

Christine Maffli, known as Kristine M. Born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1973, Christine grew up in a world where art and music were part of everyday life. Lulled by the melodies of her family and drawn to creation from an early age, she has nurtured a deep artistic sensibility since childhood. Settling in Franche-Comté at the age of 19, she chose to transform this passion into strength, opening herself to local know-how and exploring new materials.

The Gérard-Jacot School of Art in Belfort

It was there, at 2 Avenue de l'Espérance—a name that resonates like a mantra—that her true French story began. With a destiny to reinvent and a life to rewrite, Christine decided to resume her studies and spent several years at this art school. She owed her enrollment to her painting teacher, Dominique Dreyfus-Schmidt, whose student she was for four years. It was in this place promoting the visual arts that she found her vocation.

Now a visual artist and founder of VENERA création , Christine combines her Armenian heritage with her French roots. Her metal works, both poetic and contemporary, reflect a dialogue between the delicacy of art and the robustness of metal. Her creations—from butterflies to emblematic animals like the Montbéliarde cow or the blue-white-red rooster—tell stories of resilience, nature, and French elegance.

From Montbéliard to the Élysée Palace, where her tricolor rooster is now on display, Christine Maffli embodies a journey of audacity and creativity. Her ambition: to continue to showcase her work in France and internationally, while remaining faithful to her roots and the region that welcomed her.

Questions for the artist

Why the name Kristine M?

- Kristine is my birth name - the one that has always been with me. When I became French, I was the one who chose to Frenchify it to Christine, perhaps to "fit in", to be a little more like everyone else (smile).
But in art, we don't seek to blend in: we seek to reveal ourselves.
This is why I sign my creations Kristine M., faithful to my origins and my singularity.

A work or an artist that lives within you?

- Claude Monet, through his talent for making light vibrate into living emotion.

The ideal workshop?

- A bright, lively space... or a corner of a table in the gentle chaos of everyday life. As long as the material is there, the rest follows.

Your favorite subject?

- Metal. For its strength, its memory, its ability to reflect or absorb light.

What are you trying to provoke in the viewer?

- An emotion.

A word that sums up your approach?

- Essential.

An obsession in your work?

- Accuracy. Finding the balance between strength and fragility.

Your greatest source of inspiration?

- The living. Nature, human flaws, silences, what we don't say but feel.

A phrase that guides you?

- What we see does not last, what we feel remains.

The best moment in creation?

- When the room begins to exist without me.

Any advice you would give to a young artist?

- Listen to yourself. Even (especially) when you doubt.