Marie-Astrid's approach to painting is highly rhythmic, painting still lifes and rocks, but always with an emphasis on perspective. Her inspiration comes from the representation of spaces and objects, with their interplay of vertical and horizontal lines, curves, solids and voids. A musicality of color and form systematically emerges.

The artist also plays with materials. She paints mainly in oil, whereas most artists have abandoned oil for acrylic, which dries slowly. Marie-Astrid's strength lies in the fact that she builds up her work in layers, so that the drying time allows her to come back to the work and modify it until a balanced result is achieved.

In addition, Marie-Astrid is committed to freedom, and is sensitive to the mix of textures that oil painting allows (with turpentine, linseed oil, different degrees of dilution allowing for subtleties...). Her work is above all decomposed, in stages, to get to the essentials and the right intensity. This allows her to familiarize herself with the subject and internalize her work.

Always on the verge of abstraction, Marie-Astrid seeks to inspire the viewer to escape, and to get lost in the harmony of her colors and shapes. Marie-Astrid talks about her work in the following terms: "I'd like my paintings to lead the viewer to escape, calmly, quietly, by looking at each part of the painting in a unified way. The canvas is a whole, you enter it from one side, you walk around it, and you come out again... the composition and color harmony allow this encounter with the other, this sharing of sensibility".