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Meredith Detko is a Californian native working as a marketing consultant and entrepreneur in Paris for the past 10 years. After graduating from UC Berkeley and HEC Paris and then spending years out of alignment in the business world, she embarked on a spiritual and wellness journey that led to deep physical and emotional healing. In November she launched Aquerone, a concept store that combines her passion for wellness and sacred plant medicine all with a high-design style. 

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Aquerone is a curation of the best CBD, cannabis lifestyle products and wellness objects from around the world. On a mission to change ideologies around plant healing, Aquerone merges codes from mythology, spirituality, and psychedelics to educate around the conscious and ceremonial use of sacred plants. 

 www.aquerone.com 

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Molly Maine is a fine art painter who moved to Paris to study painting and drawing at Studio Escalier, an art school in Montmartre. In her studio in Montmartre, she makes autobiographical paintings that use imagery of interior and exterior spaces, reflection, still life, and portraiture.

A Californian by birth, she attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York where she majored in art and literature. Though interested in art since childhood, it was while copying from Botticelli’s “La Primavera” at the Uffizi during a study abroad program in Florence Italy, that she became interested in figurative painting and drawing. After graduation, she worked as an artist and scenic painter in Portland Oregon. In Oregon she was awarded a yearlong fully funded painting residency from the Calligram Falcon foundation. Molly has since lived Oxford England and Paris France where she pursues her interest drawing and painting from live models as well as from paintings and sculptures at the Louvre. 

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BORN IN 1995 IN NORMANDY AND NOW BASED IN PARIS, ETIENNE’S WORK CAN BE DEFINED BY TWO UNIVERSES. FROM ONE SIDE HIS FIGURATIVE UNIVERSE THAT HE ILLUSTRATES WITH FEMININE SCENES FULL OF POETRY AND ON THE OTHER SIDE, HIS ABSTRACT SIDE WHERE HE LET HIMSELF GO AND HIS SPONTANEITY REIGNS.

AFTER HIS FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION IN A GALLERY THAT CONCLUDED AS A SOLD OUT, THE ARTIST DECIDED TO TAKE THE FULL CONTROL OF HIS CAREER AND AUTO PRODUCED A DUO SHOW WITH GABRIELLE RUL. YOU CAN FIND HIS NAME AND ARTWORK IN COLLECTIONS SUCH AS : ARTSXDESIGN CURATED BY ASLI YILMAZTURK, MOLESKINE FOUNDATION, COPELOUZOS ART MUSEUM, IMAGO MUNDI ETC… HIS UNIC UNIVERSE MADE AN IMPACT ON BRANDS AND ICONIC FRENCH HOUSES THAT LED HIM TO COLLABORATE WITH NAMES SUCH AS LE BON MARCHÉ, ADIDAS, L’EXCEPTION…

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Khuyen Do is an American creative consultant based in Paris, specializing in luxury and contemporary fashion as well as lifestyle brands. With an international and bilingual background (French & English), working with French and European brands comes just as naturally as working with any American brand. Past and current projects have consisted of everything from PR, to art direction, styling, talent management, brand partnerships, event organization, and content production. With a vast network of contacts in the industry, creative collaboration and establishing ways for one creative to support another is always one of the key motives behind the work.

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Christine Betts is an Australian writer who left her heart in Paris years ago! Her first two novels and a collection of short stories are all set in France. Current works in progress are set in California, England, and Australia.

Christine trained in education and the visual arts. She spent many years creating Australian-made gift ware and art for interior design projects. Writing took centre-stage in 2017 when she left her management position with a market-leading art-seller and packed up her brushes

Awards 2021/2022

Death of a Show Princess, Shortlisted for the Scarlett Stiletto Awards (Highly Commended.)

Tough Crowd, Winner - Queensland Writers Centre RightLeftWrite competition in November.

How I Got this Tattoo Winner - The Tasmanian Writer’s Prize for 2022.

Southbank, Shortlisted for the Brisbane Writers Festival First Date at Southbank competition.

Christine’s long-time internet handle, WriterPainter, is also the name of her blog on creativity, writing, art, meditation and spirituality. She believes that everyone is creative, and it is through our act of creating that we find our purpose and meaning in life.

She is passionate about writing, strong female characters, yoga, animal rights, and her family.

 my website is www.writerpainter.com

My Instagram is @paristimetravel or @writerpainter 

My facebook page @Paristimetravel https://www.facebook.com/ParisTimeTravel

My writing on Spiral Dynamics https://writerpainter.com/?s=spiral+dynamics

A great website with all kinds of information on Spiral Dynamics and Integral Theory https://spiraldynamicsintegral.nl/en/origin/

My fave little Paris/creativity book https://ericmaisel.com/a-writers-paris/

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