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The Artist
Françoise Dagorn is a French painter inspired by twenty years spent close to the ocean. From Tahiti to the Seychelles, via Hawaii and California, she draws from this proximity to marine biodiversity the very essence of her art. She explores the theme of the ocean and its duality between beauty and fragility. By creating links between the ocean and the land, between humans and nature, it evokes the interdependence of life.
Committed to the protection of marine biodiversity, Françoise Dagorn regularly participates in events and initiatives for the protection of the oceans.
She summarizes her artistic approach as follows: "Creating an emotion is a first step towards awareness".
Art inspired by the Ocean
Françoise Dagorn experiments with different artistic techniques to shape painting and translate its intimate link with the ocean. She explores the mysteries through a blue chromatic universe. This choice reflects his desire for total immersion, in order to let the blue become matter, light and depth, as during a dive into marine biodiversity. Knives, sponges, brushes or even his fingers amplify the immersion in the blue shades. By integrating collages of torn nautical charts and excerpts from scientific articles, it weaves a link between geographical, biological and visual exploration. The representation of marine animals in his works is enriched by discoveries on marine ecosystems, merging knowledge and artistic sensitivity. His works become territories where intuition mixes with knowledge, offering a journey that is both aesthetic and revealing. Each work invites an immersion in the ocean, where the resilience and vulnerability of life meet in a dialogue between art and nature.
Françoise Dagorn does not seek to reproduce reality but to transform it into an aesthetic experience that arouses emotion in the viewer.
Her Background
2025
November
Oceanisme Art exhibition - Maison de la Mer - Nantes
Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Sea, Françoise Dagorn exhibits her works inspired by the oceans alongside 21 artists of the Academy.
Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Sea, Françoise Dagorn exhibits her works inspired by the oceans alongside 21 artists of the Academy.
October
Sea and Ocean Book Festival
Solo exhibition of paintings on October 11 and 12, 2025 at the Agora du Grau du Roi room.
September
9th Contemporary Art & Nature Show - The consciousness of the hamster from September 05 to 28
House of the environment - Domaine de Restinclières
Photo : Installation of the artwork "Global warming" 100 x 300 cm during the exhibition at the House of the Environment.
July
Exhibition "Art and science at the heart of the Ocean"
The Orangerie, Jardin des Plantes, Montpellier
From June 21 to July 6, Tuesday to Sunday, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
An exhibition bringing together sensitive and committed perspectives on the ocean.
Photography: Researchers from MARBEC
Painting: Françoise Dagorn (Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Sea)
Sculpture: Laurent Yvelin (Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Sea)
March-April
- "20 000 blues under the sea" - Chapelle des pénitents bleus - La Ciotat - From march 14th to april 12th 2025.
February
Art Capital - Grand Palais - Paris
Salon des Artistes Français
2024
November
ArTeyran Art Fair
October
"Regards sur le vivant"
This exhibition was held at the Château de Simiane in Valréas, bringing together 11 artists.
September
8th Contemporary Art & Nature Fair
The Maison Départementale de l'Environnement and the Artothèque in Montpellier organized this event around a central theme:
"THE SONG OF THE FOREST"
This exhibition brought together artistic works referencing the forest from an ecological perspective. On this occasion, the artist presented "Esmeralda Mangrove”.
Agust
Artist residency at MadLab (Laboratory of Arts and Waste), created by Maison Tarbouriech in Marseillan (34).
July
Maison des Arts from 28 june to 26 july 2024 - Le Barcarès (France), the exhibition "Ocean colors and soft curves"
June
Speaker and exhibition on the occasion of the scientific conference by the Association Française d'Halieutique from 26 to 28 june 2024 - Ifremer station - Sète (France)
On the theme "Which paths for equitable and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources"
April
International Multihull Show from 3 to 7 april 2024 at La Grande Motte (France)
March
Festival des artistes from 15 to 18 march 2024 - Parc des expositions of Montpellier (France)
2023
conference and exhibition
Speaker at "Special evening at the Maison de l'Océan as part of the 'Paris of the Reefs' week, hosted by Lambert Wilson and Sophie-Dorothée Duron (Head of the Marine Coastal Areas Department). A wonderful opportunity for Françoise Dagorn to unite art and science in raising awareness about the fragility of giant clams, alongside Professor Nabila Mazouni and Research Director Jean-Claude Gaertner."
The TO'A exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre, from December 11, 2023, to January 11, 2024.
2022
June
"Breaths of life" Grimaldi forum - Monte Carlo
Art exhibition dedicated to Mediterranean cetaceans and marine conservation.
Supported by EFG Bank Monaco and Princely Government of Monaco
I would like to thank His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco for supporting art in the service of biodiversity conservation and for having done me the honour of visiting my exhibition "Art & Cetaceans in the Mediterranean" as part of the "Breaths of Life" event organised by Jean-Charles Vinaj at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo.
September
"Feu" organised by Artothèque Montpellier and Maison Départementale de l'Environnement at Domaine de Restinclières, Prades-le-lez, from 28 August to 19 September 2022
2021
H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco visited the University of Montpellier on 15 June 2021 to discuss research on nanosatellites and marine biodiversity. During this event, the President of the University, Mr Philippe Augé, offered my creation "From Chagos to Madagascar" to H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.
This painting, combining acrylics and collage of marine maps, represents the beauty of marine mammals in the Indian Ocean, in a nod to the expeditions from Monaco that will soon be criss-crossing this ocean to study marine biodiversity.
H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco receiving my painting
The painting "Ecume" was sold for the benefit of the Banque Alimentaire de l'Hérault, a charity organisation working to collect and distribute food to the most vulnerable people in precarious situations. The funds collected will be donated in full to them.
Thank you @celairefrank for this solidarity initiative.
2020
Françoise Dagorn develops a new approach, where she puts her marine animals back into their environment... She tears and glues sea maps on canvases, then paints over them. Who doesn't travel while contemplating a sea map?
In this "SOULAGES" year, the Artothèque Montpellier and the Maison Départementale de l'Environnement have organised an exhibition at the Domaine de Restinclières in Prades-Le-Lez focusing on black, GERM'IN NOIR, from 29 August to 11 October 2020. Françoise Dagorn was selected for this beautiful exhibition with about fifty artists from various backgrounds, where she presented a canvas specially designed for the occasion: Noir Marin
Watch the TV Via Occitanie report on the Germ'in Noir exhibition, where she is interviewed at the end.
2019
Françoise Dagorn participates in the Printemps des Arts in Juvignac, in the Place aux Arts in Montpellier, in Pyramid'Arts in La Grande Motte and finally, she is selected for the 3rd Art Nature contemporary exhibition in the domain of Restinclières (34).
2018
October 2018, first exhibition at the Hôtel des Barons de Lacoste, in Pezenas (34) city of Molière.
2016 & 2017
Françoise Dagorn's approach is deliberately pure, to focus attention on the colours of the fish. The backgrounds of her paintings are plain, of sober colour, in order to bring out the unexpected colours of the animals she paints. She receives her first commissions on tropical fish: a recognition that gives confidence to the self-taught artist that she is. One of her collectors offered a painting to the President of the Republic of Maldives!
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