Françoise Dedon

Françoise Dedon (born in 1975 in Marseille) is a painter who lives and works in Carqueiranne, in the Var. Her mother is a former student of the Beaux-Arts de Marseille, and her father is a landscape gardener. As a child, she lived on the Mont des Oiseaux, a hill in Hyères facing the islands of Porquerolles, Port-Cros and Le Levant.

In the 2000s, Françoise Dedon exhibited her first canvases in Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Saint-Cyr-les-Lecques, Toulon and Cassis. Her travels in Côte d'Ivoire, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Mexico feed her painting. After a break of several years, she took up her brushes again in 2019. In 2025, the local press in the Var counted more than 400 works painted since she resumed. Her work has also been shown in Barcelona, at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, and in China.

Françoise Dedon also co-manages the family business Fredon Paysages, which designs gardens. She has opened an art space in Hyères where her canvases hang all year round. In spring 2026 she presented "Mare Nostrum" there, an exhibition devoted to the Mediterranean.

Her paintings are built with thick, dark lines surrounding soft, blended colours. Women, fauna and flora recur from one series to the next: "Azur", "Rêve", "Faune", "Végétale" and "Les Scènes". The woman often holds the stage with detachment, in the manner of the vamps of the Roaring Twenties.