Franchesca Beau
Franchesca Beau
Atelier Beaux Arts · Rougemont

The Alps,
in oil & colour.

Original paintings of the Saanenland and Pays d'Enhaut — from a single-artist gallery in the village of Rougemont, near Gstaad.

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Sanetsch, oil on canvas by Franchesca Beau
Sanetsch · 2025 · Oil on canvas

“I use colour to express myself.”

Selected Works

Shown to relative scale
Les Diablerets Mountain Massive
The Collection — hung to scale

Walk the wall.

Every painting side by side at its exact relative size — a 15 cm study beside a 160 cm canvas, precisely as they compare in the room. Stroll the wall, switch the backdrop, tap any work to look closer.

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The village of Rougemont at sunset
The Village

Rougemont, Pays d'Enhaut.

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Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Painting Lessons

Learn in the atelier.

Group workshops every Monday and Tuesday afternoon, and private coaching by appointment — alla prima oil or wet-in-wet watercolour, materials supplied.

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Events

At the gallery.

Receptions and openings through the season.

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Visit

Fifteen minutes from Gstaad.

Rue du Village 6, Rougemont. Wednesday – Saturday, 2 – 5 pm, and by appointment. Every painting on this site hangs in the room.

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The Sarine at Les Moulins
The Artist

British by birth,
alpine by light.

Franchesca Beau paints the mountains she lives in. Born in London, raised near Oxford, and twenty-four years painting in Southern California before settling in Rougemont — where the valley's light, seasons and animals now fill her canvases.

Franchesca Beau
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