Folin

Bibliography and exhibitions

• 1982-1983, Studied painting at the Académie Roederer school of Art. Paris.
• 1983-1984, Diploma course on jewellery design from the Chambre Syndicale de Joaillerie de Paris.
• 1984-1987, Studied for a diploma in social science at the Institute des Sciences Politiques and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
• 1987-1992, Worked as a porcelain painter in her own studio in Paris until 1992 when she married and moved her studio to London. Sold to a large number of collectors in France, USA, Britain, Italy and Switzerland.
• 1996, Chosen (alone) by the "Grands Ateliers de France" to represent the art of porcelain painting at their unique exhibition "Mains et Merveilles dans les Grands Ateliers" in the Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris.
• 1997-1998, Studied botanical painting under Anne-Marie Evans at the Chelsea Physic Gardens, London.
• 1999, Group exhibition of botanical watercolours at Daphne Johns Contemporary Art, Duke St., St. James, London.
• 2000 (march), Group exhibition of botanical and natural history paintings, "Flora and Fauna" at the Salomon Gallery in Milan.
• 2000 (may), Group exhibition of botanical watercolours at the Bolton street Gallery, London, with the "Flora Group of Botanical Painters".
• 2000 (november), Group exhibition of botanical watercolours at the Ursus Gallery, New York.
• 2001, Work included in the Hunt Institute for botanical documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, and exhibited at the 10th International Exhibition. Solo Show of her work at Hortus Gallery, Cale St. Chelsea, London.
• 2003, Work selected for inclusion in the Highgrove Florilegium. This is presently being created under the umbrella of the Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation and will celebrate and record in a permanent way the Flora in the garden at Highgrove.
• 2004, Group exhibition "Botanical Bounty" at the Flinn Gallery, sponsored by the Friends of the Greenwich Library, Greenwich, Conn. USA.
• 2005, Work selected for the book "Flower paintings from the Apothecaries' garden" Contemporary botanical illustrations from Chelsea Physic Garden.
• 2006, Group exhibition at the Museum of Garden History. This exhibition celebrates the 500th anniversary of the John Tradescants Museum catalogue, Museum Tradescantium.

Articles

• Country Life, March, 2004
• Côté Ouest, Novembre 2004
• House & Garden, May 2005
• House & Garden, June 2005