Victorine Follana

Victorine Follana had been doodling since her early childhood, but it was after visiting the Orangerie Museum in Paris in the early 1970s that she discovered the work of the painter Chaim Soutine. It was this emotional shock that truly sparked her desire to explore painting. After a few years of self-taught work, she enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Sète from 1982 to 1987 in the drawing, painting, and art history section. By frequently meeting many artists based in the region and passionately studying art history, painting became a necessity for her.

Her favorite themes include abstraction, which offers her a wide freedom of expression, as well as evocative storytelling, highlighting vibrant and poetic scenes of everyday life.

Starting in 1987, she participated in Master classes at the Talens Academy (known as "the island of painters"), where renowned abstract and figurative artists, professors at major Parisian art schools, were involved. Victorine Follana had the opportunity to work and establish friendly relations with Robert Lapoujade, a painter, filmmaker, and writer who passed away in 1993. She also mingled with Joël Trolliet, a painter and general treasurer of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris, as well as Thibault de Reimpré, who passed away in 2023.

Victorine Follana has continued to exhibit her works since the 1990s.