Caroline Desnoëttes

Caroline Desnoëttes was born in Saint-Mandé in 1962. She trained at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, graduating with a diploma in painting in 1984 at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Exhibiting her paintings on a regular basis, her drawings often published in newspapers and magazines, in 1994 she became the exclusive designer of quintessential textile brand Paule Marrot, then created her own design firm, Ddesign.

Published by Réunion des Musées Nationaux and Albin Michel Jeunesse since 1996, she has authored 37 art books, some award-winning and translated into numerous foreign languages. Two publications of her collections have been published at the Fine Arts Museum of Houston in 2003.

In 2005, Caroline created the graphic “bible” for the animated series, Les Sansoucis, for France and other countries; then, in 2008, she launched the Nature Animée project, the first series to be created by hospitalized children in the cartoon world, which will be broadcasted on TV5 Monde, shown at film festivals and appear online.

In 2014, partnering with Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Le Petit Palais, Musée de Cluny, Musée Rodin, Musée Jacquemart-André, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, et Réunion des Musées Nationaux, she opened a visual art studio in Hôpital d’Enfants Margency Croix-Rouge Française. Her work continues to be exhibited in places of prestige while she collaborates with cities for her street-art work.