Kristine Tsala was born in Yaoundé. She is “a girl from the forest”. Until she was 18, she lived in her village in the middle of tall trees. with already a heated desire to represent things according to her sensitivity. and her vision. The characters she paints are her many trees. Her mother played an important role in her vocation by enrolling her in the Mbalmayo Art Institute. She will continue later at the Fine Arts of Kinshasa.

The street is her inexhaustible source of inspiration. These are men and women whom the artist meets every day during her wanderings. The streets are Douala with their colors, horns, spices, and smells. Painting in rich and dazzling colors, her giraffe characters are slender, and elegant with tapered necks. A scene where mystical signs and an infinite cultural heritage of masks intertwine. This artist offers a split vision, that of the difficult time of social integration with modern “traditional” duality. In love with the loincloth fabric, she incorporates it into her compositions in a subtle and aesthetic way. Its supports vary from wood, cardboard, fabric, and canvas. The semiabstraction of her giraffe characters, the animal realism she associates with her compositions, and the abstract shadows she now feels attracted to.