François Besson is a French painter born in Paris in 1955 and attracted from a young age to landscapes and boat drawings.

Earlier in first life he worked as a geological cartographer, a publisher and as a sailer, jobs that gave him a great sens of observation that he uses in his Impressionist watercolour and oil paintings.

Autodidact, he has worked in several studios: Antonina Alupi (Paris), Guillaume Barazer (Roscoff, Brittany) and Isabelle Litschig (near Aix-en-Provence).

His sensitive painting tries to catch the harmony in the light of mountains or seascapes, or in the movement of a Mistral sky, a wave, a tug...

He works in Provence and his studio is situated just by the famous Montagne Sainte-Victoire immortalized by Cézanne.