I believe in creativity, handmade and quality products, originality, artistic creations, workmanship, uniqueness .... All these reflect into my art. I'm constantly brainstorming for new ideas and learning new techniques that I can incorporate in my work ..... My creations are meant to be unique and different from what you can find in stores.
I have always been fascinated by the beauty of nature and attracted to flowers, colors, elegance and beauty, and I want to celebrate those with my artwork.
I am an avid and passionate learner and love to explore new techniques and mediums and to experiment. My medium of choice is acrylics, fluid acrylics and mixed media. I am currently exploring oil and cold waxt painting. I love to create texture but also to play with fluid acrylics and water. I find that there is something very relaxing and organic about fluid work. I will sometimes incorporate both texture and fluid work in one painting.
My body of work is composed of landscapes, seascapes, floral and abstract paintings. While I often paint intuitively, I also have pieces that refer to my origins or are inspired by my walks and hikes, some specific places that I visited, lived in or simply just inspire me.
I want to take the viewers to a happy and special place. My art is very vivid and embraces joy.
Françoise Lama-Solet was born in Paris in 1964 and grew up in the suburbs of Paris where she started painting and sewing at a young age. At the time, her media of choice for painting were gouache and pastel. She was inspired by her aunt, Jacqueline Gougis, who was an impressionist artist.
When Françoise went to college to pursue her studies, she stopped painting but kept on sewing, creating garments for herself, her family, and her friends. In 2004 she launched her fashion business as a children’s clothing designer. In 2012 she started her women’s wearable art fashion line and is now also designing, hand printing, hand painting and hand dyeing her own textiles. She designs and sews all her garments and scarves.
Françoise moved to California with her husband Claude in 2000, where they lived for 11 years before moving to Atlanta, Georgia where she currently resides. She has two sons.
While Françoise was striving and growing in her fashion business, she was also missing painting. In December 2018 she grabbed some brushes, acrylic paints and canvas and started painting again.
Françoise had her artwork showcased in several local juried exhibitions since 2019 as well as at the 2022 Spring Local Artist Exhibition at P Fine Art Gallery in Suwanee. She sells her artwork online and through art festivals. She received a 1st place Award during the Suwanee Arts Festival in May 2022 and was Featured Artist at the Suwanee Arts Center in September 2022. Francoise is an active member of the North Gwinnett Arts Association and the Alpha Art Guild.
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