Mady La Giraudière spent his childhood in Lavelanet, in a family which for years has dedicated its activities to the development of the textile industry . At the end of his studies at 19, she wants to go to the school of fine arts , but is hampered by the veto of his father, the great figure of lavelanetienne industry.Passionate about drawing and painting since her childhood, she is working alone, with only master nature.
Around 1955, she met Anatole Jakovsky , "The Pope of Naive", which the guide to fill its lack of artistic training and it requires a lot of work in the hope of organizing a first exhibition in Paris. She painted a hundred paintings in 3 years, of which forty are selected by Anatole Jakovsky who organized his first exhibition at the gallery Henri Benezit in Paris . This exhibition was a real event because it was the second time that was done in the capital an exhibition devoted to a single naive painter 1 .
She was selected to participate in 1997, with her daughters Chin and Nang, the third edition of "The castle life" at the French Cultural Centre ( French Cultural Center ) in New York with thirty-nine other artists and artisans french art.
His paintings are in the museum naive to Nice in Vicq , in Laval , in Aubigny (Oise) in Lausanne , to London , to Tokyo to New York . Seven of his works, paintings of 1.70m on 1.30m which tell the life of Christ, found in the church of Lavelanet. The artist has also assisted in renovating the marriage hall in the same city.
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