A Colour Palette as Sharp as a Knife: Introducing Francoise Nielly.

French painter Francoise Nielly is surely one of the most original artists anyone could possibly look for. Born in Marseille, her father was an architect, and transmitted her his passion for image in all its forms. 

Though Nielly was interested in more than just image: she absorbed the colour and light of Marseille, Cannes and Saint Tropez and made it her own.

Having digested any possible form art, from photography to illustration, she soon returned to her roots: painting. Her intriguing works full of raving colours seem to literally rip the canvas.

The tecnique "Miss Fluo" uses is both sophisticated and complex, spontaneous but raw. Oil colour is scraped with knives, coated with metal spatulas, splashed, and pretty much anything you can think about, creating an agressive, in-your-face, and explosive final effect.

But it's not just her dazzling tecnique that attracts the observer: even her subjects are queer and captivating, all about exotic features, lustful lips and almond eyes.

 Her likes? Life, wide open spaces, sushi, blue lagoons, Internet, humor, books, Paris, New York and Vancouver.

My likes? I'd simply say.. Francoise Nielly.