She has explored the different facets of image all her life through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer generated animated graphics. It is clear now that painting is her direction and her passion.

She gets 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, she was never far from the light,  colour and atmosphere that permeates the South of France.

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, carnal 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, humour, 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 the United States.

EXHIBITIONS

2010

• Solo exhibition -  Gallery Villa del Arte, Barcelona
• Opera Gallery, Singapore
• Gallery Menouar, Paris
• Miami International Art Fair, Gallery Villa del Arte
• Palm Beach Art Show, Gallery Ville del Arte
• Glasgow Art Fair, Gallery Villa del Arte
• Chicago Art Fair, Gallery Villa del Arte

2009

• Solo exhibition - Gallery Menouar, Paris
• Gallery Anne Cros, Pézénas
• Gallery Villa del Arte, Barcelona
• Gallery Claude Petit jean, St Tropez

2008

• Gallery Claude PetitJean, Aix en Provence
• Gallery Opera, Monaco
• Gallery Villa del Arte, Barcelona
• Art Fair Newcastle, Gallery Villa del Arte
• AAF London, Gallery Villa del Arte
• Artenimes, Gallery Anne Cross
• Gallery Anne Cros, Pézénas

2007

• Les ELYSEES de l' ART, Paris
• Persona Grata, Paris
• Gallery Menouar, Paris
• Gallery de L'Europe, Paris

2006

• Gallery Menouar, Paris (Artycolor. Givenchy)
• Gallery Mensirioux, Montreal, Fort Lauderdale
• Gallery Lausberg, Toronto
• Gallery Anne Cros, Pézénas

2005

• Gallery Menouar, Paris
• Gallery Anne Cros, Pézénas

2004

• Gallery Sibman, Paris
• Gallery Menouar, Paris
• Gallery Cinko, Paris

2003

• Gallery Stephane Olivier, Sant Ouen

2002

• Gallery Bdv. St Ouen, Sant Ouen
• Gallery Gagnon, Montreal

2001

• Gallery Anne Cros, Pézénas

2000

• Gallery de Bièvre, Paris

1999

• Gallery Michel Blais, Vancouver
• Gallery Artitude, Paris

1998

• Gallery Influences, Paris
• Gallery Stely, Sant Tropez

1997

• Gallery Steglé, Sant Maxime

PUBLICATIONS

• Publications: Blue, Photo, Newlook, Feminitude, Cimaise,  Féfé, CetG.