"My canvas portrays the different faces of the same woman. Fairy and witch are juxtaposed, there’s a duel. I use women as a springboard to show that internal struggle within all of us, wrestling with feelings of happiness and yet unhappiness. That I choose to mainly paint women makes my pictures also autobiographical. We all are interpreters, and yet it’s difficult to translate one’s own feelings. That’s probably why it takes a whole life to know yourself, and it’s often only once you’re not far from your death that you feel ready to start over again, but in a better way. Most of the time, I paint without thinking. It’s only once the work on canvas is done that I discover a part of myself. There are many roses in my work, they are full of meanings for me. ...My mother and the difficult relationship I had with her are what guide my works. I paint teenagers with painful looks, infants full of unhappiness who didn’t manage to find their own places in life. Being imaginative is being able to detect some poetry in a simple movement. A picture can appear very common and empty to some people, but like a spring of creativity for others. Even myself, I can miss out on a goldmine, and then the day after, be surrounded by wonderful vision. Imagination is the skill of pulling out the soul of what’s around you." Françoise de Felice, of Italian descent, was born in Paris where she spent her first 20 years. As a little girl she was introduced to art by her grandmother. Françoise first developed her craft as a French impressionist. She later left France and settled in Sicily, where she began to build her own personality and signature. The artist credits the “splendors of the Sicilian baroque and light of the island” for helping her along her journey, developing a style born of “chance and want combined.” (http://combustus.com/francoise-de-felice/) undefined

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