Now in her forties, Françoise has always been an extensive traveler. Through more than fifteen years working for a humanitarian agency, she was able to live in many different places, from South America to Central Africa, and from the Middle East to South Asia.

During these years, she often turned to glass painting as a hobby, trying to capture the spirit and colours of the places she lived in.

In 1997, on her way to a more settled life in Argentina, she turned to flameworking, producing her first beads and necklaces, for herself, her family and friends. Soon, she started to work part-time, to be able to dedicate more of her time to her work with glass.

She attended training courses at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, N.Y.), in particular with Pati Walton and Loren Stump, and in the Escuela del Vidrio of the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja (Segovia, Spain) with Arturo Lagüarta. By 1999, she had her own small workshop in Madrid (Spain), and her work was reaching beyond friends and family.