Pauline Bétrancourt is a French artist living and working in Aix-en-Provence, France. A practicing artist of 20 years, she obtained her MFA in 2009 from l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence. Bétrancourt's practice of painting and drawing was profoundly enriched by a group of artists from The Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing in Aix-en-Provence. She works on the motif, directly from nature with oil paints, pastels, charcoal and graphite. In her process, she is moved by what she sees and renders it with spontaneity. She chooses to portray a vision in which elements create a dramatic unity, coming together as in a chorus. Within the fusion of color, shadow and light, pattern and mystery are both created.