VISUAL ARTS

As a Swiss visual artist, Nathalie Jean-Louis discovers throught art a powerful and singular means of expression that she is forever exploring, redefining the framework of her own artistic practice. She joined the Académie Maximilien de Meuron in 1996 to study the guidance of the painters Domenico Sorrenti, Pauline Liniger and Catherine Lauer-Wicky. After 3 years of study, she successfully obtained the Diploma of Fine Arts from the Academy Of Meuron.

From the painting of Nathalie Jean-Louis emerges both a great strenght, but also a sensitive fragility, helping to establish the mystery that captures the viewer. Setting forms and colours in motion, she is inspired by the art of stained glass to convey all this power and these contrasts and yet the gentleness that characterises her imagination. As an abstract artist, she develops a style of painting which colourful curves blend into the delicate darkness traced in Indian ink. Striped filaments, dazzling shadows, distented forms dance and play together, embracing and repelling each other in turn. All of her art is a song that bewitches and grasps around, seeking shores to cling to, horizons to unfurl. Putting gesture and spontaneity at the heart of her artistic process, she makes full use of the impulses offered by watercolour to let these incarnate paintings flow out of her imagination.

Personal and collective exhibitions:

2019 Hôtel de ville Les Verrières (Suisse)

2018 ROCCART GALLERY, Firenze (Italia)

2018 Banca Popolare Di Sondrio, Neuchâtel (Suisse)

2001 Abbaye de Montbenoît (France)

2000 Musée Saint James, Sainte-Marie (Martinique)

1999 Péristyle de l'hôtel de ville de Neuchâtel (Suisse)