Brigitte Germann was born in 1960 in Aubonne. As a physically handicapped child, she spent long periods of time in hospitals and did not attend school very much. She was placed as a kitchen staff for several years and started creating in 1988, at the Ceramic Workshop in Juriens. Before discovering drawing, she got to know clay and modeling without having to worry about the technical aspects.

Animals are Brigitte's favorite source of inspiration. Her creativity initiates from a furtive image or a picture but the subject stays free. It appears gently, gradually, as rearing out of a drawing, or a plot of clay.

But why cats? Simply because they are so familiar to her and "we always had cats at home". May be the realization of Noah's Ark influenced her great interest in elephants? Who knows?

The ways in which she observes and states an animal's posture, or the quality and shape of an object, are very sharp yet mischievous. Brigitte offers us simple and touching views of nature. She takes time, experimenting colors, testing the pressure on a pencil or a brush, or feeling the texture of clay. She produces very few pieces, which makes her work even more precious and sought after. 

Thanks to her great determination and the help of her family circle, she now lives independently and had participated to a few collective and personal exhibitions. With no specific reasons, she stops creating in 2005.