Each brushstroke responded to a visceral need to capture the very essence of life. Her style evolved over time. She began to structure her compositions and moved from the instinctive to the figurative. But always, colours remained at the heart of her work, like an indelible signature. As the years passed, Catou felt the need to push her artistic exploration further. She then turned to geometric abstraction, a style that allowed her to play freely with shapes and colours. Her paintings became complex compositions of lines and forms, where each colour found its place, a celebration of the beauty of a living world. Lately, she has returned to the elegance and harmony of the human figure, by composing paintings from one or more characters, which she makes evolve in a set of geometric constructions.