A native of Montreal, Francine studied at McGill University, and later at the University of Calgary and the Alberta College of Art. She is a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. She studied with Charles Movalli where she developed her “plein air” style of painting.
In 1993 and 1995 her work was selected to represent Canada at the Spring Salon in Paris, France. Her paintings are part of private and corporate collections in Canada, Paris, New York, Japan, Switzerland and Australia. In the spring of 2003 she exhibited in Giverny, France. Over several summers Francine has returned to France as a guest artist for the Art Study, in Giverny, where she paints and teaches in Claude Monet’s garden as well as in Southern Normandy.