Nathalie Dumontier
- France
- Painter
Nathalie developed two passions in her youth : sports and painting. In the beginning she focused on sports (professional sports and lifeguarding), but after founding a family, she returned to her first love : painting.
While taking her daughter to a drawing class, she found herself enrolling in an adult program at the Museum of Fine Arts in Chartres where she discovered a sense of unparalleled freedom.
Exhibiting her first painting confirmed her decision: the need to create had become essential. In 2006 she left her job in order to devote herself entirely to her passion.
As she observes her children’s lifestyle, Natalie is surprised by the lack of real communication in the virtual world. The electronics discretely embedded in her work are nods to the modern life that she mocks.
Initially, her paintings were figurative, but gradually her painting became more and more abstract. Nathalie uses an acrylic knife to apply splashes of colour to the blank canvas. Once dry, she covers the canvas with oil painting that she chooses for its smoothness, at times adding material to give body, at other times working pigments diluted in water to give fluidity. The long drying time of oil paint allows for it to be worked over and over again. She scratches, scrapes and searches, constantly constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing. She plays determinedly with contrast, shadow and light.
Steeped in the atmosphere of Chartres, where she lives, Nathalie also works in stained glass, which allows her to develop her creativity and technique. In working with the glass she finds the same play of shadow and light, transparency and opacity that she develops in her painting. She brings the same subject matter to her stained glass windows as she does to her painting. The technique is different, but the approach is decidedly the same. And the two expressions are complementary...
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Nathalie Dumontier
Où vont les belles âmes
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Un si joli voyage
100 x 100 cm$ 4,200Nathalie Dumontier
Je t'aime à la folie
25 x 25 cm$ 390Nathalie Dumontier
La lumière se fond dans l'eau
19 x 19 cm$ 230Nathalie Dumontier
La belle énergie
19 x 19 cm$ 230Nathalie Dumontier
J'attendais en vain
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Ne plus attendre !
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Urbanisation 1
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Reflets argentés
19 x 19 cm$ 230Nathalie Dumontier
Entre les 2
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
S'envelopper dans la brume
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Un instant de bonheur
100 x 100 cm$ 4,200Nathalie Dumontier
Le temps d'aimer
25 x 25 cm$ 390Nathalie Dumontier
J'aime tellement ton rire
120 x 40 cm$ 1,900Nathalie Dumontier
Et le soir venu
40 x 120 cm$ 1,900Nathalie Dumontier
Un monde à part
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
J'aime l'instant
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Fracas
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Rose le cours des anges
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
La vie d'avant
19 x 19 cm$ 230Nathalie Dumontier
L'émotion est grande
25 x 25 cm$ 390Nathalie Dumontier
Belle nature
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Un court instant
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Sentir la terre
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
J'ai du sable dans les cheveux
25 x 25 cm$ 390Nathalie Dumontier
Les yeux embrumés
80 x 80 cm$ 2,800Nathalie Dumontier
Le murmure du vent
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Tout est fluidité
19 x 19 cm$ 230Nathalie Dumontier
Jardin secret
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Un temps pour tout
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
J'entends le roulement des galets
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Dis, tu reviendras ?
19 x 19 cm$ 230Nathalie Dumontier
Un ciel d'orage
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
La douceur de ta peau
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Seul je chemine
36 x 36 cm$ 630- Sold
Nathalie Dumontier
Du soleil dans les yeux
13 x 13 cm$ 150 Nathalie Dumontier
Un petit vent du soir
19 x 19 cm$ 230- Sold
Nathalie Dumontier
Entre toi et moi
36 x 36 cm$ 630 Nathalie Dumontier
Les nouveaux horizons
25 x 25 cm$ 390Nathalie Dumontier
Une certaine idée du bonheur
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Tout me plait
25 x 25 cm$ 390Nathalie Dumontier
Croire en soi
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Fin d'une belle journée
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Zone industrielle 2
19 x 19 cm$ 230Nathalie Dumontier
Nature capricieuse
120 x 40 cm$ 1,900Nathalie Dumontier
Du soleil au jardin
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Au creux de tes bras
50 x 50 cm$ 1,200Nathalie Dumontier
Et si tu
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
Un long et épais silence
40 x 120 cm$ 1,900Nathalie Dumontier
Puis,un long silence
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Tempête intérieure
100 x 100 cm$ 4,200Nathalie Dumontier
Se laisser porter par les sentiments
80 x 80 cm$ 2,800Nathalie Dumontier
Lueur d'été
36 x 36 cm$ 630Nathalie Dumontier
La peur du silence
19 x 19 cm$ 230Nathalie Dumontier
Frimas
25 x 25 cm$ 390Nathalie Dumontier
Avant ce jour là
13 x 13 cm$ 150Nathalie Dumontier
Je ne veux pas partir d'ici
50 x 50 cm$ 1,200Nathalie Dumontier
Quel sourire
50 x 50 cm$ 1,200Nathalie Dumontier
Elle était seule la campagne était belle
25 x 25 cm$ 390Nathalie Dumontier
Ne plus savoir
36 x 36 cm$ 630