Michel Charles-Nicolas is an artist based in France. According to her,  art and painting reminds her of childhood, a life's gesture, the promise of discovery during adolescence, and the ever-present projection of her very essence. After completing a Masters degree in geography, she assumed the direction of the Centre Pierre Nicole (The French Red Cross) for drug addicts, and during this time also rediscovered the pleasure of studying with ceramists, notably with Daniel de Montmollin and Claire Debril. She studied sculpture at the Fine Arts Workshops of Glacière in France, for three years before finding her passion for painting in 1992 in the Atelier des Beaux-Arts of Montparnasse with Antoni Ros Blasco. Poetry is central to her work; poetry that springs forth from the depths, initially primordial emotion and then cosmic, omnipresent in childhood and nourished through travel and its subsequent encounters and eventually fixed by music and by opera and its excesses is important to her. Thus, from the outset, painting imposes color on her as a "poetic song," color that espouses fleeting impressions and powerful sensations, color for the absolute idea of an ideal world, unspoken, intuited, completely imbued with animism--  in short, color which renders a spiritual context to the material world finds a way in her art. The powerful poetry of Aimé Césaire calls out to her in her art and imagination. The titles of her paintings are taken from the poems of Aimé Césaire.