Françoise Ducret, born in 1947, lives and works in Vaucluse. A geographer, archivist of ancient silks, and journalist for the magazine "Textile-Art-Language," she has self-taught the high-warp tapestry. Since 1983, having definitively become a visual artist and graduated in fine arts from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, her primary pictorial practice has become oil pastel, on canvas, wood, or paper. The entirety of her pastel works is named "Weaving the Painting."

Similarly, she experiments with all flexible materials and deepens her research on establishing a language between textile and painting. She then decided to incorporate painting into her textile tapestries by creating her own materials. Thus were born "Paper-Materials" (paper, paint, acrylic, laminated film, weaving), handcrafted felt sculptures, weavings with metal threads, and more. Since 2018, she has been exploring the qualities of industrial felt, a smooth black surface, favoring acrylic painting and a new working method, "folding."

Since 1981, Françoise Ducret has exhibited regularly (galleries, museums, salons, biennials, public and private commissions). From 2006 to 2023, she was permanently present at the Nicolet gallery in Coustellet, Vaucluse.

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