Pencil Fashion is an exploration in art and design, the theme of Fashionable models always fascinated me and it’s being a long time since I wanted to do something along those lines. I would classify it as a contemporary painting although I really hate doing that….I tried to keep female figure somewhat abstract and stylized but not overdue it and maintain pretty close resemblance to the real human proportions and figurative expressions. I also chose to play with a mirrored image on some of the pieces, somehow it just resonates with the fashion show, cat walk when you see models walking toward the audience and then stop, strike a pose for a few seconds, turn around an leave. I think it is one of the most dramatic moments of the show. With my work I was trying to capture this pretentiously graceful but frozen for a moment look. The over all atmosphere or art space(or simpler background) is not as uniquely different then some of my previous work. I still love the organized chaos of painting that I was developing for a while. In case of Pencil Fashion series, I definitely used bolder design inspired colors. I think some are stronger then other (which is always the case…lol), but I’m very happy with results, this series came easy to me and I love when it happens…. Please see more here.

Francoise Nielly lives in a world of images.  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, is never far from the light, the color sense 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 and of celebration.

"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; charnel and sensual. "Whether she paints the human body or portraits, the artist takes a risk:  her painting is sexual, her colors free, exuberant, surprising, even explosive, the cut of her knife incisive, her color 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, in Canada and in the United States