She studied painting and drawing with J.-Cl. Athané in Paris and followed the course of the Musée des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1999, she obtained a graduate diploma from Christie's Education (Paris and Cambridge, UK) where she studied the expert identification and presentation of paintings. Prior to dedicating her career to painting 15 years ago, Gabrielle Thierry was an engineer specialized in cognitive sciences and expert systems applied to Knowledge Management.