Monique de Roux

During a visit in a museum, she experienced a first aesthetic shock in front of The Sleeping Gipsy by Henri Rousseau, soon followed by the one of the masters of Quattrocento, particularly Fra Angelico.

Dominated by dark colors, her artwork is then characterized by dusk visions with troubling models, unmoving people and birds in a cage.

Five years later, the National Library of Madrid accepted the donation from the artist of 130 engravings which almost cover all of her graphic production.

[5] In 2016, Monique de Roux was one of the engravers invited for artistic residency at the Xuyuan Center in Beijing, in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and the National Chalcography in Madrid.

To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, each artist created large etchings on the theme of the Knight-errant which were shown in Beijing at the end of their residency.