Tuesday April 30 took place the opening of the painting exhibition entitled Regardsby Françoise Rocchi, at the tourist office at the Château de Saint-Alban, in the presence of Benjamin Guezet, director of the Margeride tourist office in Gévaudan, Daphné Garcin, head of the Saint-Alban office, Samuel Soulier , the mayor and Sandrine Constant, first deputy and Séverine Cornut, representing the departmental council.
“I paint on favorites”
Françoise Rocchi, a native of Marseille, has been drawing and painting since childhood. Self-taught, now retired, her figurative style celebrates the subjects she paints: animals, nature, people and military scenes. She uses oil or acrylic depending on her inspirations. She participated in the Lumières de l’art fair in 2007, where she won the public prize for her painting. Corsica. Since then, she has exhibited regularly in different cities. Sensitive to the missions of the French Army, she donated several works sold for the benefit of the wounded of the Armies. In 2023, she was selected to participate in the 23rd Salon des Peintres de l’Armée, where she won a prize for her work. The link.
This almost Lozerian since having built there and living there nine months a year, confided: “I like living in Lozère, because it’s calm and then here there are links that are created and thanks to one of them, he directed me to ask the tourist office, to set up this exhibition I am proud of it and very well received My exhibition is varied, because I do not like to focus on a single subject, if I do the same thing I get bored. things that seem aesthetic to me I have always painted since primary school, where the teacher made me decorate the school windows, I certainly had some inclinations.
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