The delicate hand of François Fressinier is distinctly visible in his beautiful, sensitive renderings of humanity. His subjects primarily consist of Ciallo-Roman imagery with embedded artifacts of the southwestern region of France. Fressinier was born in Cognac, France on August 4, 1968. His parents were portrait photographers with businesses in Central Africa and the Charconte Maritime region of France, and François was greatly influenced by their aesthetic teachings. Francois studied fine art at Ecole Brassailin Tours where he was exposed to the drawings, sketches and paintings of Rembrandt, Renoir, Courbet, Ruhens and Delaunay. Drawing, painting and photography have been an primary part of his life from a young age. Early in his youth, François was introduced to, and captivated by, many of the world’s historic places. Paris, Rome, Amsterdam and London were all at his doorstep. The peace and serenity of Roman ruins and Gothic churches are clearly conveyed in his work. Fressinier sums up his artistic goal by stating, “My objective is to render classical subjects into the present as homage to the Old Masters; the emotion that this brings to me is what I wish to convey on canvas.”