Françoise Bricaut, an engraver with a strong personality, was born in 1938 in Blida, Algeria, before Independence. Since her childhood, the cultural family atmosphere will arouse her interest for art. The whole family joined, in 1946, her father who had previously come to settle in Paris after the war. Later, at the end of the 50's, she did her artistic training at the Académie Charpentier, at the Académie Julian, and then integrated the famous

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  Biography of Françoise Bricaut

  Françoise Bricaut, an engraver with a strong personality, was born in 1938 in Blida, Algeria, before Independence. Since her childhood, the cultural family atmosphere will arouse her interest for art. The whole family joined, in 1946, her father who had previously come to settle in Paris after the war. Later, at the end of the 50's, she did her artistic training at the Académie Charpentier, at the Académie Julian, and then integrated the famous Atelier 17 of the English painter-engraver Stanley William Hayter in 1958. At that time on rue Joseph Bara, she created some solid relationships and friendships (Gail Singer, Isolde Baumgart, Hector Saunier, Roger Platiel, Georges Ball, Yoshiko Noma, Finn Christensen, etc). Here is what Stanley William Hayter wrote about her work: "For Françoise Bricaut, printmaking is almost an alchemy. And, well beyond the diversity of her techniques, it is what they imply in terms of openness and humility, manual work and a sense of risk, that is important. There is, indeed, something magical happening in printmaking. An engraver is an artist-worker who must not only master the processes, but is also obliged to understand the hazards in order to try to tame them. Thus engraving is freely invented through a ritual during which what might seem a constraint offers, in return, the possibility of multiplying the unique."The doors of her own workshop, "La Taille-Douce" (http://francoisebricaut.free.fr/), opened in 1978 in Paris, in the heart of the Goutte d'Or; in this engraving workshop, which was subsidized for a time by the Ministry of Culture, she offered a place of learning to all those, confirmed artists or beginners, who not only wanted to learn about the mysteries of engraving, but also to offer them an irreplaceable space of encounters, exchange and creation. Françoise Bricaut teaches and shares the often mysterious secrets that underlie her practice. The workshop quickly opens up to the world; people come from all horizons (Asia, South America, the Far East, etc.) and all languages are spoken, each artist being able to integrate his or her own culture into the practice of engraving, a very ancient "school of alchemy". On the copper plate, Françoise Bricaut teaches all the techniques of the soft engraving (techniques in hollow of the engraving), the work with the burin, the dry point, the soft varnish, the acid (aquatint and etching), the inking in black and white or in colors and the use of the press.The artist has a website showing a wide range of her work: http://www.francoisebricaut.com/.She exhibits regularly, personal exhibitions (since 1961) or collective exhibitions (including several for the Atelier 17 period); over the years, she will obtain a large number of awards and rave reviews. Françoise Bricaut practices not only all the techniques related to engraving, but also works in mixed techniques (with collage, weaving, embossing, etc.).
  

  

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