A French-based artist who has exhibited extensively in the United States as well as her native country, Yolande Ardissone paints marine scenes, landscapes and floral still life in style that combines Naivet? and Impressionism and with bright colors, is influenced by Fauvism.

She has traveled widely in addition to the United States, including to Spain, Algeria, China, Thailand, Russia, Egypt and Indonesia, but most of her paintings are of Brittany. She credits Gaughin, Van Gogh and Renoir as major influences.

Ardissone was born in Normandy in 1927 to a Ukrainian mother and Italian father. She began her art studies at age seventeen in Paris at the Ecole des Arts Appliqu?s and then enrollments followed at the Academie de la Grande Chaumi?re, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier of Unterstellar.

Biography courtesy askart