Miss Van’s gauzy romantic compositions they carry a surreal quality of burlesque, resonating with a beautiful synergy of rawness, softness and emotion. As she explains, ‘I’m evolving and growing up with my paintings. It’s the only way, when you paint with emotion and feeling. I’m just trying to be true to myself.’

In an interview for an exhibition titled La Belle Epoque at the KP Projects Gallery in Los Angeles in 2023, Miss Van went on to say ‘The name of the exhibition, La Belle Epoque, refers to the beautiful age of Montmartre in Paris, when artists, poets, dancers, musicians and muses-could meet, share, and enjoy without censure. It was the age of cabaret, circuses, a celebration of flesh and sensuality. This year I am celebrating thirty years of life as an artist. It has been a reflective time, having rediscovered paintings from my early beginnings during the late nineties to the early 2000s which had been hidden for the past sixteen years in my hometown of Toulouse. These paintings, together with my personal stories, have allowed me to reflect on my work, seeing the trajectory of imagery and ideas from then until now. Over the years, my focus has been to represent femininity in all shapes and forms through raw emotion, instinct, and spontaneity. Some of the new paintings have very bright colours, as in my beginnings, while others have more muted and blended hues, sensual and delicate, lush and sultry, odd, magnetic, and mysterious.’