CELEBRATE LIFE,
drawing constantly, everywhere, every moment, capturing everything around us...

Françoise Cauvin’s drawings can be both caricatures, as well as academic portraits or landscapes, but also totally imaginary and stylized One sometimes fi nds the infl uence of that genius of free and evocative line that was Jean Cocteau, from whom she also borrows her technique: Françoise uses black watercolor, sometimes Indian ink or graphite enhanced with oil pastel, gouache or white. Her drawings are often pasted on paper. She also collages papers or prints..

Françoise has a real aptitude for drawing and sketches from her close ones, passers-by, circus performers or the animals that surround her. Her eyes are sharp, her line relevant, her dexterity captures the detail that immediately sets the tone. The pencil line underlies all his work. Always present here or there, visible or invisible, frame or decorum.

Jean Cocteau (1889 – 1963) – Ink, graphite, charcoal

Drawings by Françoise Cauvin-Monet

Françoise Cauvin painted mainly indoors. She did not follow the example of her great-uncle, who lived only to translate Mother Nature onto canvas, the multiple brushes dipped in oil, the infi nite colorimetry of pigments and turpentine. Françoise opts for a more immediate creation. Acrylic on paper, canvas, cardboard... pencil, felt pen, collage, silk paper...
Seizing the moment, an expression, a spontaneity.

Several themes are recurrent and translate her daily life as a woman of the 20th century. Her couple and her loved one, her beloved daughter, the animals that touch her, the circus that gives her back her childlike soul for a moment. Numerous portraits or self-portraits of staged women: the singer, the dancer, the elegant woman, the mother, the pregnant woman…
Rarer are the totally abstract works, a series of totems or the spirit of a stained-glass window, many are a humorous wink to reality... Beasts are so human, humans so animal...

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