“Art is the language I turn to when I reach the edge of what the visible world can explain — and something deeper calls to be expressed.”
— Marie-Amélie Chéreau
About Marie-Amélie Chéreau
Marie-Amélie Chéreau is a French contemporary artist, known for her luminous and spiritual palette-knife oil paintings. Her artistic journey is rooted in a profound inner awakening following a life-altering rupture that shattered the surface of her former life — after 20 years as a senior executive in the luxury industry, including as VP at LVMH — and revealed fragments of a deeply buried, traumatic past.
In the years that followed, she reconnected with the artist she had always been — deeply influenced by her grandmother, herself a painter, and trained throughout her childhood and teenage years at the Martenot Art School in Paris. Painting became both refuge and revelation. Through the act of creation, she began to recover parts of herself — some conscious, others still hidden in the layers of silence and forgetting. A portion of her memory remains inaccessible, like a locked room. In this space of mystery and resilience, her art was reborn.
Each canvas becomes an act of remembrance — of the self, of the invisible, of the untold. Her abstract works, sculpted with a palette knife and refined by brush lines, evoke light breaking through darkness, and often bring forth unexpected figures: animals, eyes, angels, or faces that seem to emerge by themselves, unbidden and uncanny.
Drawing inspiration from Soulages, Rothko, and Kandinsky, her practice lies at the intersection of abstraction and spiritual transmission. Her paintings are not made to be understood — they are meant to be felt. They speak to the soul, and to what lies beneath consciousness.
Her work has been shown in Paris, Munich, Geneva, Miami and Chicago , and is held in private collections internationally.
In parallel to her painting, Marie-Amélie is the author of two novels:
Les Autruches (2018) — published in the United States in 2025 under the title From Broken to Whole: The Courage to Heal and Reclaim Your Dream Life — and Le Champ des Possibles (2021).
Both books mirror the themes found in her art: healing, spiritual resilience, and the long journey of discovering who we truly are.
Occasionally, Marie-Amélie shares her artistic and personal journey through talks or intimate creative workshops. These moments of transmission are rare and always anchored in the deep essence of her work as a painter.
The Speaker
With over two decades in senior executive roles at L’Oréal, Unilever, and LVMH across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, Marie-Amélie now brings her insight to organizations seeking conscious leadership, collective resilience, and sustainable solutions to burnout.
She has spoken at conferences in Hong Kong (French Chamber of Commerce, CCE), Munich (Microsoft), and at top universities such as HEC Paris. Her talks are known for their authenticity, emotional resonance, and transformative power.
Her unique path touches both executives and teams because she truly embodies the wisdom she shares.
The Creative Transformation Expert
Through her signature workshop Tell Me If…, Marie-Amélie offers a unique experience where painting becomes a strategic tool for leadership, team alignment, and reconnection to purpose.
Tell Me If... is not a coaching session, not a brainstorming meeting, and not a typical team-building event. It is a powerful, artistic, and emotional journey that helps leaders and teams:
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Reconnect to their company's mission and values
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Reveal insights through painting
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Transform individual visions into a collective strategy
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And above all: restore humanity, joy, and meaning in the workplace
This workshop is designed for organizations seeking meaning, cohesion, and a more human centered way of working—with art as a powerful lever for transformation.
“Does my being fit my doing?” — This is the soul of Tell Me If...