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Abstract painting · Sion, Switzerland

Acrylic, concrete, sand and pigment: matter built up in thickness, often worked with the fingers, which changes with the hour of the day.

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Close-up of the canvas Camargue: pink and coppery matter crossed by a crest of white and gold.

Francine Berthod

Camargue, detail

Acrylic on canvas · 80 × 60 cm

Photograph: Gabriel Zuchuat

Francine Berthod, in profile in a bright room, a glass in her hand, in front of a concrete wall.
Francine Berthod

01 — The artist

The work starts on the floor.

The canvas lies flat. The matter is spread by hand — several canvases are painted with the fingers alone, without a single tool — then worked back with a knife. It has to set before anything can be painted on top of it.

Acrylic, concrete, sand, texture paste, soft pastel, real leaves: the material changes with what the canvas asks for. The thickness is part of the subject. A photograph only shows one version of it.

That is where the titles come from — Estran, Marais Salant, Proxima, Kintsugi. Places and ideas that all come down to the same thing: light caught in a surface.

02 — Works

Four canvases, to begin with.

Estran — horizontal canvas: a pale beige sky, a raised line of blue and white foam, then a broad ochre shore.

Échappées

Francine Berthod

Estran, 2026

Acrylic on canvas

80 × 120 cm

Price on request

Camargue — vertical canvas in pink and copper, crossed diagonally by a crest of white and golden impasto.

Échappées

Francine Berthod

Camargue, 2026

Acrylic on canvas

80 × 60 cm

Price on request

Kintsugi — narrow vertical canvas: a vein of gold runs down the centre of a turquoise and white field.

Francine Berthod

Kintsugi, 2025

Acrylic with texture on canvas

90 × 30 cm

Price on request

Sunlight — horizontal triptych: three raised golden discs, on grounds shifting from black to white.

Francine Berthod

Sunlight, 2020

Spray paint; discs in a home-made mix of acrylic and paste

Triptych · 3 panels, 40 × 40 cm

Price on request

See all twenty-seven works

Francine Berthod hanging a canvas on a white wall, both hands on the stretcher.

The canvas lies flat. The rest is settled by hand.

Studio · Photograph by Gabriel Zuchuat

03 — Commissions

A canvas made for your wall.

Size, palette, support: a work can be conceived for one particular place. The more unusual pieces — concrete, diptychs, triptychs, canvases for children's rooms — all begin this way.

Fêlure — grey and black concrete panel, split vertically by a flow of vivid red paint.
Concrete and soft pastel · Fêlure
Sunlight — triptych: three raised golden discs on grounds shifting from black to white.
Triptych · Sunlight
Nature sauvage — diptych: a spray of green, brown and white stems bursts from the centre.
Diptych · Nature sauvage

How a commission works

04 — Three constants

01

Matter

Acrylic, concrete, sand, texture paste. Applied by hand, sometimes with the fingers alone, then worked back with a knife. The thickness is part of the subject: some canvases are as much relief as image.

02

Light

Golds, bronzes and pearly whites that turn with the angle. A canvas hung in a corridor is not the same colour in the morning as in the evening.

03

Format

From the round tondo to a 90 × 30 cm vertical panel, from diptych to triptych. The format counts as much as the motif.

05 — Contact

Write to the studio.

For a question about a work, its availability, its price, or for a commissioned canvas: a message is enough. Francine answers herself.

Studio
Rue du Stade 6, 1950 Sion, Suisse

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