Izette Folger

Izette Folger is a classically trained Washington DC-based visual artist. Born in Mexico City to American parents, she spent her early years in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she was influenced by the warmth, color and light.

An accomplished pianist, Izette studied at Juilliard and then transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York to pursue painting where she received a BA. She spent a summer at the Lacoste School of the Arts in the south of France, and attended classes of Lucio Loubet in Paris, an expert in the Old Master Technique where she befriended Man Ray’s wife Julie and his family. In New York, she was influenced by close friends Pricilla Morgan, Isamu Noguchi, Lisa de Kooning and her father Willem. Later moving to Boston, she worked for Dimitri Hadsi and Countess Vontuna at the Harvard Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Preferring to show privately, Izette’s paintings are collected and displayed in private homes and public spaces across the U.S. and in London, Paris and Stockholm.  She is on the board of Transformer, a Washington DC-based non-profit emerging arts organization. 

Izette resides in the Washington DC area with her husband Neil C. Folger, Chairman and CEO of Folger Nolan Fleming Douglas, Inc. Their son Nicholas Folger, an investment advisor and portfolio manager is at the same firm and lives in DC with his wife banking strategist Sofia Llompart Folger. Their daughter Camilla Folger is a digital product designer in NYC where she resides with her husband, Mike Natriello, a professor and author.