Originally from Paris, Lenclos started painting at 13. She painted regularly through her twenties but then life had other plans and she stopped painting for 20 years. In 2015, after a summer in Brittany rediscovering the pleasure of making images with oil and brushes, she got a studio at Whirled Studios in Loughborough Junction near her home. She now paints as much as possible, alongside working as a community tutor and running a children's cinema club.