Having followed training courses in painting at the Charles B. Cecil studio in Florence (Italy) and with the great American masters Richard Whitney and Douglas Flynt, James François has developed an exceptional know-how in the different techniques of drawing and painting. (oil, charcoal, colored pencil, etc.). His studio is located at Les Trauchandières, near Saint Malo in F.

After his apprenticeship in Bonn (Germany), Michel François received training as a sculptor at the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter, to then establish his studio and his Pottery Art Gallery in Falmouth, Cornwall. Benefiting from an international sensitivity, culture and experience, Michel François specializes in Art pottery. After twenty years of research on mainly Asian ancestral practices, he has acquired unique know-how in the manufacture of large jars ("moon jars") with exceptional glazes using original and natural methods (without using pigments).