Francoise Watin

Borned in Algiers in 1954
Lives and works in Normandy since 2019

Born in 1954, Françoise Watin grew up between Paris, Tahiti, and Algeria.
She studied in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Centre Culturel Américain in Paris, all the while attendent Université Vincennes Paris VIII to study Philosophy and the Peter Goss School for Contemporary Dance.
During that time, Françoise Watin fell in love with painting and exhibited her very first works in a hotel in Moorea, in French Polynesia. She then embarked a journeys as a dancer for the prestigious Crazy Horse Saloon of Alain Bernardin that took her all over the world, living and performing in Mexico, Macao, Italy,etc.
While traveling and living abroad, she continued to paint and her passion for nature’s vivid colors has infused her work ever since. Her versatility as a fine artist translates into each of her practices , may it be watercolor, gouache, ink, or oil paint.
It allowed her to collaborate with various publishing companies and theaters in France and the USA as an illustrator ( Editions de la Tempête, Revue le Chroniqueur, Editions Paris Méditerranée, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, etc ).
She now lives and works in Normandy, France.

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