Francine Tissot is an artist who resides in Los Angeles, Ca. Her first efforts
at painting took place in New England with artists John Fusco and Earl
Powell. Eventually realizing that her eyes were becoming educated beyond
her hand due to much museum going and art research, Tissot then withdrew
from painting for a time.
She subsequently derived satisfaction and reward from the craft of
goldsmithing and the designing of fine jewelry which she pursued at the De
Cordova and Dana Museum in Lincoln, Ma. Her collection enjoyed exposure
at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.
Years later with an art sensibility fueled by an all-consuming interest in
Abstract Expressionism, Tissot resumed her painterly journey, studying with
California artists Robert Burridge and Reine River. Favoring an abstract
and loose approach, her paintings are about vigorous brush strokes and
bold, lush colors. Today, Tissot continues her journey as she draws
inspiration from her studies with Santa Barbara artist Jill Sattler.
"The act of painting for me is about a venture into unexplored terrain. Central
to my work is the challenge of bringing about order through color and form.
Absent any pre-conceived plan, I enter the "arena", and owing to controlled
accident the work takes form. Characterized by bold color, scrafitto, and
hieroglyphs and favoring abstraction, the paintings often evoke other times and
unknown places. If I am fortunate, a new universe emerges - one in which the
invisible is made visible to the viewer."
