Artists Represented by L'Orangerie Gallery

Carolyn Francis

Carolyn Francis grew up in a painting. Born in a small town in the Midwest, her summer days were spent swimming in the Mississippi, running through cornfields and chasing fireflies after dark. It’s not surprising that one day she would bloom into an artist with a deep love of color, light and the land.

As a young woman she moved to New York City where she enjoyed a successful modeling career with the Ford and Elite agencies. Extensive travel through Europe awakened her to the beauty of historic cultures. After returning to America, she pursued another childhood dream and performed as an actress in many television shows and commercials. But art was always a passion. Mostly self-taught, she studied at Santa Monica College, Pratt Institute, and the Woodstock School of Art.

Now the passion is in full flower, intensified by the natural beauty of her new home at the east end of Long Island, whose lush scenes and brilliant light have captivated generations of artists. In addition to the joy of working with such rich subject matter there’s the deep satisfaction of helping to preserve a look, feel and sense of place that may not exist forever.

Devotion to nature has led to the development of the Carolyn Francis style, which has been called realism brushed with impressionism. That, she feels, is the way we actually experience the world around us. “What’s out there, the land and water, are more beautiful than anything the mind can make up,” she says.

In other words, though she’s come a ways from the cornfields and fireflies, Carolyn Francis is still living in a painting.

For more information, please visit carolynfrancisstudio.com

Carolyn Francis

Reflections 36" x 36"

Guy Le Baube

Guy Le Baube was born in France in 1944 He moved from Paris to New York in 1976.

An award winning photographer, highly esteemed for his editorial work in world-renowned fashion magazines, his photography has been seen in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Marie-Claire….

In the early 90’s Guy Le Baube transcended the commercial realm with a private collection of photographs “Behind the Scene” that won critical acclaim. Glamorous, sexy, and erotic, Guy’s work is bold and surprising. His nude portraits are allegorical tales punctuated by a witty, tongue-in-cheek humor.

Guy Le Baub’s photographs reveal a sensibility that lies between the sexiness of Helmut Newton and the playfulness of Jacques-Henri Lartigue. His vision ranges from the world seen through the mischievous eyes of Federico Fellini to the expression seen through the eye of his own childhood innocence. His latest collection of images displays the adept skills of a master photographer and creative narrator of intimate life; thrilling, beautiful, touching and playful.

For more information, please visit guylebaube.com

Guy Le Baube

St. Jean Cap Ferrat 1987

Joni Scully

Joni Scully lives and works in her studio of 30 years on Canal Street in New York City.

She is a painter who observes passionately and then projects her fresh and recreated impressions of whatever she sees while still keeping alive the older and more venerable joys of painting: metaphor, color, shape, and texture developed by her into demanding compositions. As Paul Valery, the French poet, wrote: “a Classic is a Romantic who has learned his technique.” In this sense, Joni Scully is a Classic painter.

In her words: “My work is representational. It is metaphoric. I do not attempt to copy reality, but rather to recreate it. I have no interest in sentiment, politics, hidden messages, or illustration in my painting. The painting tells me what to do. It is only about itself. It is, as well, my desire to create work that gives evidence to anyone who sees it, that it is possible to transcend the mundane, to look passionately at the world around us and to make that “metaphor” that is bigger than life in whatever is one’s occupation. Painting’s greatest reward for me continues to be the startling discovery of a constant new sense of things.

For more information, please visit joniscullypaintings.com.

Joni Scully

Delilah and the Mirror