A self-taught 'beyond-the-frontiers' artist, was born in France as Geneviève Brillet, in 1953.

In the prime of her life, this nomad has listened to the call of her wandering soul, leaving her family's cocoon to meet with different people, different cultures, different beliefs.

Having chosen Québec for her permanent home in 1978 did not slow down her journey on the Earth towards the pursuit of the truth, seeking for the real things. Through the soils she walked upon - Asia, Oceania, Africa and South America - she discovered that the humanity is moved by the same heartbeat, a sole blood.

Since few moons, this woman, red in her heart and native in her soul, has decided to settle down for a while, in order to leave the floor to her artistic creation, a dream she toyed for such a long time.

Therefore, in the wind blowing of the St-Laurence River, among the banks of its quiet majesty, close to the nature, in harmony with the Mother's Earth, far and wide from the artificial, she sculpts raw clay conveying Her messages.

In love with nature and sensitive to human, it is when Saya gets in touch with earth that she is feeling in total symbiosis with Creation. From her soul to her hands, shapes are brought to life, oscillating between figurative and abstract art, with a touch of anthropomorphism, sometimes half-bird/ half-woman, in the likeness of her universality.

Working in the unpublished, the artist has chosen to immortalize her sculptures by casting them to bronze, their fragments waving in the wind.

Loyal to her profound convictions, Saya pays a percentage of her sales to ‘Survival’*, an international Association who fights for the rights of natives people all over the world, the sole real guardians of the Earth.

* http://www.survival-international.org/