Biography

Genevieve Dael was born in Paris in 1947 and brought up in a literary and artistic milieu in the sixteenth arrondissement. She was convent-educated and went on to study decorative arts at the Ecole Charpentier. In the early 1970s she lived briefly in London. Returning to Paris, she taught herself to paint in oils, with no previous training. Her first paintings concentrated on trompe l'oeil experiments, then she developed an interest in extinct and imaginary creatures after encountering the work of the nineteenth century Austrian fantasist, Alois Zotl. Alongside her interest in the poets Lautréamont and Edgar Poe, favourites of the surrealists, she discovered the satirical work of Grandville. Genevieve Dael has been represented for some twenty years by Francis Kyle Gallery and has held one-person exhibitions there in 1984, 1987, 1990, 1995, 1999 and 2003 and 2009.

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