ABOUT
PRISCILLIA JORGE
Decorative Painter / Architect and Urban Designer
Priscillia Jorge is a State-certified and licensed architect, MA in social sciences, PhD in urban planning and design, and Painter in heritage decor. Native from Paris and based in Arles since 2019, but working throughout France and abroad, her practice combines technical expertise, craftmanship and creativity.
Experience
Priscillia has worked for several years in the field of architectural and urban design and research, in Paris and Milan. This professional experience allows her to assist project owners, providing advice, management and project monitoring.
Her theoretical and practical experiments about the sensitive experience of space and spatial representations feed a design approach where aesthetics are combined with functionality, while respecting environmental and social issues; to create habitable spaces that evoke rich sensory experiences, tell stories and facilitate appropriation by users.
Through decorative painting, which she has been professionally practicing since 2021, she shapes space by modifying its perception, and paying particular attention to history but also to the place volumes, light, and atmosphere. Working as close as possible to the material, her achievements, whether in terms of creation or restoration/restitution, thus tend to sublimate architecture by combining heritage enhancement and contemporary vision.
Settled in Arles, she regularly works on different types of projects – permanent or temporary, indoor or facade – in the South of France, but also throughout France and internationally.
Passionate about graphic and plastic arts, she explores, in parallel with these activities, varied fields and media realizing a wide range of creative projects.
Skills
Her acquisition of traditional techniques of decorative paintings and coatings, which she constantly seeks to update and supplement, allows her not only to implement them in the creation of contemporary decors, but also in restoration/restitution projects on ancient wall and ceiling decorations. She also regularly collaborates with restorers, specialized craftsmen and artisans as well as with recognized workshops, qualified in the restoration of buildings and decorations classified or listed as Historical Monuments.
Co-founder of a group of decorative paintersfrom different backgrounds, Priscillia works with an ad hoc team if the project complexity and scope require it. This flexibility allows not only to combine each one's specific knowledge and skills but also to master the project temporalities, to adapt the response to each client specific needs, while ensuring the interventions quality , consistency and sustainability.
Commitment
Aware of the ecological impact of the building and painting sectors, due to the generalization of products from the petrochemical industry, Priscillia favors an eco-friendly approach.
She has thus chosen to prioritize, in all her projects, materials that respect the environment and the building integrity, as well as natural paints and solvent-free products, in order to preserve the users and craftmen's health. To this purpose, she uses either ancient recipes to compose her own paints, varnishes or strippers, or innovative commercially available products,
She also regularly organises conferences or introductory workshops aimed at the revaluation and dissemination of this ancestral knowledge, largely forgotten and still unknown today.
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2024 : PhD in Urban Planning and Design . Université Paris-Est - ED Cities, Territories, Transports - Lab'Urba
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2021 : Title of Decorative Painter Specialized in Heritage Restoration . Ecole d'Avignon (Training center for the rehabilitation of ancient heritage)
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2012 : MA. in Social Sciences. Mention Territories, Spaces, Societies . School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris
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2010 : Accreditation for Architecture Project Management (HMONP) . Architecture School of the city and territories Paris-Est
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2009 : State Diploma of Architect (DEA). Specialty Paris, Metropolises . Architecture School of the city and territories Paris-Est / Facultad de Arte, Arquitectura y Diseño, Universidad Diego Portales [ Santiago de Chile ]
Training
OUR TEAM : L'ENVERS DU DÉCOR
Creation and restoration of painted decorations. Decorative coatings. Wall preparation. Architectural surveys, stratigraphies, wall pathologies diagnosis, administrative records, advice.
Trained in traditional techniques of decorative painting, our collective members come from very diverse professional and artistic backgrounds. They therefore have a wide variety of skills, useful and complementary in the management of projects ranging from the creation of contemporary decorations to the restoration of ancient buildings and decorations.
Our collective members, come together around a common commitment : the preferential use of non-toxic and ecological materials - adapted to the geographical and historical context, as well as to the supports - in the implementation of their individual and/or collective projects.
CONSTANCE THIEUX
Decorative Painter Specialized in Heritage Restoration / Visual artist
Before becoming a decorative painter, Constance studied at the Beaux-Arts and practiced various creative techniques, in particular with the creation of artisanal wallpapers.
Arles (Bouches-du-Rhone)
FREDERIC JORDAN
Decorative Painter Specialized in Heritage Restoration / Eco-construction specialist
Before becoming a decorative painter, Frédéric worked for several years for a trade in ecological materials for which he implemented the natural building materials distributed.
Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhone)
BLANCHE VAN HYFTE
Decorative Painter Specialized in Heritage Restoration / Costume designer. Scenographer. Woodworker
Before dedicating herself to decorative painting, Blanche worked in the theater world as an actress, scenographer and costume designer (from artistic conception to production).
Avignon (Vaucluse)
