Self-taught artist, Gisele Eisenmann Montagne (signing artist name: GEM) is a figurative painter working primarily in oils and in acrylics, occasionnaly in soft pastels. A former PhD Scientist and computing engineer, GEM's transition to painting was catalyzed by the realization that enjoying life and nature's beauties was paramount when the pandemic started devastating the world in 2020. She developed her oil and acrylic technics joining Josy Grant's artist studio in Grasse (06).
Her paintings are essentially figurative, landscape subjects, nature, portraits where bright and saturated colors are expressed. She immortalizes reflections in the varied aquatic landscapes. She used the opportunity of her regular trips to Australia to snap photos for painting reference materials She is attracted to the abstract painting, which allows her to bring out colours and shapes freely.
Gem currently lives and works in the French Riviera, France. Since 2021, she has been exhibiting regularly in solo or group exhibitions.

Gisèle Eisenmann Montagné is the winner of the following prices and awards

• 2024 Luxembourg Art prize: certificate of artistic achievement
• 2024 Trophy Award of Antibes City [Painting Festival - (Picasso Museum friends organization)]
• 2021 2nd prize, Watercolour/Pastel category [Painting Festival - (Picasso Museum friends organization)]