Françoise and Jack were raised on the Britanny peninsula, France. Both were educated in law and worked together in this field while raising four children. Françoise developed an appreciation for art at a young age, drawing and painting constantly as a child and young woman. Jack schoolbooks were filled up with drawings, a gift inherited from several members of his family.
Françoise, Jack and their four children migrated to the United States in 1981 and lived in the cosmopolitan San Francisco Bay Area. Soon business and circumstances drew them to the American Southwest to live in Snyder, County Seat of Scurry County in the West Texas Great Plains.
While fulfilling the requirements to become naturalized United States Citizens, Françoise applied herself to study and absorb the culture and history of her new home, while Jack was busy running various businesses.
Françoise attended Western Junior College, Angelo State University and Texas Tech University. Her academic endeavors culminated at the University of New Mexico, where she earned her Master of Arts. During this period she expanded her considerable artistic talent to produce work in photography.
One day in November 1987, the Snyder Rotary Club whose Jack was a member invited a local sculptor to make a demonstration of his hart. Jack had the opportunity to see clay models, finished bronzes, and tools, and to listen to a passionate presentation by the artist. Back home Jack explained to his family what he saw, claiming that he should be able to do some kind of sculpture if he had the opportunity. This opportunity, or better said the challenge, became a reality at Christmas 1987 when he received 5lbs of clay as a gift.
While Françoise was showing her appreciation of the Southwestern United States through her oil paintings, watercolors and photographies, Jack was making clay models who ended at a foundry to convert them in bronzes reflecting the first inhabitants of his new home.
After eight years in West Texas, circumstances brought the family to the Austin, Texas area. The grown children gone, Françoise and Jack decided to leave the busy cosmopolitan area and settled in the Central Texas, Williamson County town of Liberty Hill, where they reside today, a few miles away from the downtown area.
