Nathalie Dumontier

My pictorial practice is part of an abstract research focused on emotion and gesture. My paintings do not seek to represent reality, but to reveal an inner, sensitive, and instinctive perception of it. Each canvas becomes a space for exploration where my emotional states settle, between bursts of fullness, moments of happiness, and the quieter shades of melancholy. I work without preparatory sketches. The absence of initial structure is essential to my approach: it allows me to preserve the spontaneity of the gesture and to enter into a form of letting go. The creative process is guided by intuition; the composition gradually builds itself, in a constant dialogue between movement, matter, and emotion. Color is at the heart of my plastic language. It does not adhere to any pre-established rules but emerges directly from my feelings. My palette is instinctive, vibrant, sometimes contrasting, sometimes more restrained, reflecting the variations of my inner state. Color thus becomes an emotional writing, a way to express what cannot be formulated otherwise. Nature deeply nourishes my work, not as a subject to represent, but as a source of sensations. It inspires in me both a sense of fullness and a diffuse melancholy. This tension between calm and gravity runs through my canvases and structures their internal dynamics.