Francoise Nielly lives in a world of images. She has explored the different facets of "image" all her life, through painting, photography, drawing, illustrations and computer generated design. It has become clear to her that painting is her direction and her passion.

She has inherited her sense of space and construction from her father, who was an architect.

Growing up in the South of France where she lived between Cannes and Saint Tropez, is never far from the light, sense of colour and the atmosphere that permeates the South of France. This is coupled with her studies at the Beaux arts and Decorative Arts and her sense of humor.

Françoise Nielly's painting is expressive, exhibiting a brute force, a fascinating vital energy. Oil and knife combine to sculpt her images from a material that is, at the same time, biting and incisive, corporal and sensual. Whether she paints the human body or portraits, the artist takes a risk: her painting is sexual, her colours free, exuberant, surprising, even explosive, the cut of her knife incisive, her colour pallet dazzling.

Françoise Nielly is a passionate woman who loves life, wide open spaces, sushi, blue lagoons, the Internet, humor, books, Paris, New York and Vancouver. Resolutely inscribed in her epoch, she is an accomplished artist; 20 years of artistic expression explain the maturity of her work and the perfect mastery of her art.

She lives and paints in Paris near Montmartre; shows and sells her work in Europe, Canada and in the United States.

Exhibitions:

2009 Primevera Rotterdam, Holland, Villa del Arte galleries
2009 AAF Brussels, Belgium Villa del Arte galleries
2009 Line art, Gent, Belgium, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 BuyArt Fair, Manchester England, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 AAF London, England, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 AAF Amsterdam, Holland, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 BuyArt Fair, Manchester England, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 Buyart fair, Newcastle, England, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 GEAF, Gooi en Emland Artfair, Holland, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 Open Art fair Utrecht, Holland, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 CAD, Madrid, Spain, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow England, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 Konst Mässan Sollentuna, Sweden, Villa del Arte galleries
2008 Northern Art Show, London England, Villa del Arte galleries
2007 GEAF. Het Gooi, Holland
2007 : Galerie Menouar. Paris
2007 : Galerie de L’Europe. Paris
2006 : Galerie Menouar. Paris (événement artycolor. Givenchy)
2006 : Galerie Mensirioux. Montréal. Fort lauderdale
2006 : Galerie Lausberg. Toronto. (artfairs moscou 2006)
2006 : Galerie Anne Cros.pézénas (artenîmes)
2005 : Galerie Menouar. Paris
2005 : Galerie Anne Cros. Pézénas
2004 : Galerie Sibman. Paris
2004 : Galerie Menouar. Paris
2004 : Galerie Cinko. Paris
2003 : Galerie Stephane Olivier. ST Ouen
2002 : Galerie bdv. St Ouen
2002 : Galerie Gagnon. Montréal
2001 : Galerie Anne Cros. pezenas
2000 : Galerie de Bièvre. Paris
1999 : Galerie Michel Blais. Vancouver
1999 : Galerie Artitude.paris
1998 : Galerie Influences. Paris
1998 : Galerie Stely. St Tropez
1997 : Galerie Steglé. St Maxime

Parutions
Revues : blue, photo, newlook, feminitude.
Films: Portrait réalisé par Marie-Christine Heinrich, visible sur plusieurs chaines (2007) Emission ‘chic’ sur Arte en collaboration avec Nicolas Degennes (givenchy) fevrier 2007