Meet Camille Valois

We were lucky to catch up with Camille Valois recently and have shared our conversation below.

Camille, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

My name is Camille, and I studied law. I’ve always been deeply fascinated by the mechanisms that shape our society — the invisible rules that govern our everyday lives. That curiosity naturally led me to become an intellectual property lawyer.

But once I stepped into the professional world, the reality hit me hard: the lack of autonomy, the endless hours, and projects that didn’t truly resonate with me. I started feeling a growing disconnect between the work I was doing and the person I wanted to become.

That’s when I felt the pull of my first love — art. For the first time, I allowed myself to dream: what if I could actually do this?

So, one day, I did something both terrifying and liberating — I quit my permanent job overnight and leapt into the unknown. I had no experience, no network, and absolutely no idea where to begin. It was a complete leap of faith, one that demanded every ounce of courage I had.

Along the way, I met incredibly kind and generous artists who helped me bring structure to my ideas and find my footing. I spent a year learning, sketching, experimenting — trying to build a life where creativity could truly sustain me. That’s when I realized something powerful: not only was my love for drawing still alive, but I also had a passion for entrepreneurship — for freedom, choice, and independence.

One of my biggest personal challenges has always been my restless curiosity. I get bored easily. At first, I worried that I’d lose interest in my art after a few months. But instead, I discovered that this so-called flaw was actually one of my greatest strengths — it pushes me to keep evolving and diversifying what I do.

Today, my work spans a wide range of projects: I create decorative illustrations, lead creative workshops for seniors, people with disabilities, and others who’ve been marginalized, collaborate with galleries, illustrate travel journals and children’s books, take part in art markets, and even create short films and music videos.

I’ve finally found my purpose — art. It’s impossible for me now to imagine doing anything else.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I create under the name L’Oiseau Bleu Créations. Art has always been present in my life. Over the years, I’ve had the chance to refine my drawing techniques by taking classes, experimenting with different mediums, and connecting with other artists. For me, drawing is a way to connect with myself and with the world around me. It allows me to express emotions, thoughts, and experiences in a way that feels both unique and deeply personal.

Beyond the act of creating, art is a journey — a space of transformation, listening, and connection. It moves across visible and invisible boundaries — geographic, cultural, and intimate — to reach what truly connects us.

Far from being limited to travel in its touristic or exotic sense, my approach is one of plural exploration: emotional, identity-based, and poetic. I see it as a way to question our relationship with life, with “elsewhere,” with our roots and our wanderings.

My artistic process blends several techniques — watercolor, collage, ink, pastel, engraving — each one a voice in conversation with the others. The materials interact, overlap, and sometimes fade away, in a delicate tension between fluidity and solidity, memory and imagination. This diversity allows me to constantly push the boundaries of creativity.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I think you have to be versatile: believing that being an artist means drawing all day is heresy. Most of my work involves communicating, doing accounting, invoicing, prospecting, improving proposals, and so on.

I think you have to be able to question yourself. When you’re self-employed, there’s no counterbalance. It’s hard to know if you’re on the right path. Look at what others are doing, find alternative solutions — that’s the secret.

I think you have to be sociable. Learning to communicate has been, and still is, a real challenge for me. Going up to people you don’t know and saying, “Hey, look at what I do — it’s nice, would you like to buy it?” is a real challenge. Every person is an opportunity: maybe that person will remember you when it’s time to buy a Christmas gift, maybe another one knows the director of the nearby museum, and so on.

I think you must never give up. Building something from scratch takes time. A lot of time. Hard work and a bit of luck. I’ve been fighting for three years to make a living from my passion. I don’t count the hours, the evenings, the weekends spent working. It took me a year and a half to be able to pay myself — and even now, I don’t earn a great living.

I think you shouldn’t wait to have high-quality equipment or professional opportunities before you start creating.

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?

I’m always looking for collaborations because they push my work and imagination even further ! Since I work in mixed media, I can easily team up with a wide range of people. I’ve had the chance to collaborate with videographers, photographers, tattoo artists, musicians, and visual artists whose styles were completely different from mine. It’s always fascinating to understand how others work, what drives them, and to imagine a shared project together.

People who want to collaborate with me can simply reach out by email at loiseaubleucreations.com, introducing their work and sharing a draft idea if they already have one. After that, I like to take the time to get to know the person beyond their art. The connection has to be human first and foremost — otherwise, how could we find a topic that truly inspires us both ?

Contact Info:

• Website: https://loiseaubleucreations.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loiseaubleucreations/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loiseaubleucreations

Image Credits

L’Oiseau Bleu Créations