Nicole Bot­tet, born in Pon­toise in 1942, stud­ied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her artis­tic work focus­es on still lifes and her char­ac­ter­is­tic flo­ral motifs. Bot­tet cap­tures the aes­thet­ics of the every­day in her works. She prefers to work with oil paints on paper and can­vas and com­bines them with char­coal pen­cil draw­ings and col­lage tech­niques. She accen­tu­ates the sub­tle, fine­ly tuned col­ors of her paint­ings through the selec­tive use of gold and sil­ver leaf, which cre­ates a spe­cial lumi­nos­i­ty. With her paint­ing, which oscil­lates between abstrac­tion and nat­u­ral­ism, she cre­ates an unmis­tak­able atmos­phere and focus­es on the poet­ry of every­day things. Since her first exhi­bi­tion in Paris in 1973, her work has been shown annu­al­ly in muse­ums and gal­leries in Europe and Japan. The artist lives and works in Paris.