Calyxte Campe is a sculptor and painter based in Florence and Geneva. Campe's work employs several artistic traditions including the sight-size technique and the alla prima method. He paints landscapes "en plein air" and his portraits and sculptures are always done from life and under natural light. Calyxte received training at the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, where he also instructed for several years, and apprenticed in marble carving at Pietrasanta.  

He spent his childhood with his family on the sailboat "St Michel" circumnavigating the oceans and living with the Apalai Indians in the Amazon rainforest, with tribes in Papua New Guinea, and several years among the South Pacific atolls. Campe continues sculpting in the tradition of his great-aunt, Camille Claudel.

He has completed commissions worldwide, has had solo shows in New York, London, Geneva and Florence, and his work appears in permanent collections such as the Dana Center in Washington, DC, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.