From Art to Design

Between Materials and Light.

When I was ten, I painted oil portraits. When I was twenty, I strated to get involved into photography. When I was thirty, I designed spaces and worked with architects. When I was forty, I became goldsmith and had my own jewelry collection, and today I bring all these skills together to create metal lamps with soul, down to the finest detail.

I’ve often thought that I was losing my way, that I was jumping from one technique to another like a monkey swinging from tree to tree. But if I hadn’t studied painting and photography, I wouldn’t have developed this sense of balance between shapes, light and colours; and if I hadn’t learned how to work with metal, I wouldn’t have been able to finish my lamps, let alone restore antique lamps.

In the silence of my studio, artistic explorations come to life, and I never tire of switching on one of my creations and discovering the shapes sculpted by the light.

Cajoa is the essence of my identity: the combination of my first names—Candice, Joelle, and Aline—and an echo of the joy I strive to infuse into each of my creations.