Laurène Hayoz, born in 1995 in Fribourg, discovered her passion for manga and video games in her teens.
Deciding to make drawing her profession, she went on to train as an Interactive Media Designer at eikon (Fribourg), followed by a Bachelor's and Master's degree at the Bern University of the Arts, focusing on art education and cultural mediation. This enabled her to deepen her artistic position and teaching skills. She sees the visual arts as a way of understanding and appropriating the world, and advocates an approach that combines technique, intuition and pleasure. Although her vocation is teaching, she is also developing her own artistic work, in fields as diverse as drawing, cosplay and photography. Her personal work ranges from painting on Pokémon cards to large-scale abstract creations, as well as watercolour illustration and outreach projects aimed at raising the profile of Pop Culture.
She loves exploring new techniques, discovering new media universes and stepping out of her comfort zone, an attitude she holds dear and hopes to pass on to her students.