Après la nuit (2015) Painting by Nathalie Gautier

1982: Diploma from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, with honors.

1979/1980: Student at the Atelier of the sculptor CÉSAR, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

1980/1981: Student at the Atelier of the painter M. ROHNER at the ENSAD.

1981/1983: Student at the Atelier of the painter M. ZAO WOU KI at the ENSAD

1983/1984: Student at the Atelier of the painter M. CREMONINI, at the ENSBA.

April 1982: First Prize in drawing from the Academy of Fine Arts, Pierre DAVID-WEILL Competition, Institut de France

Through drawing, I showed my gaze, and through the evidence of this gaze I existed. Drawing led me to painting because I wanted larger formats, the adventure of color, light and shadows. I abandoned modeling and 3-dimensional work; the surface of the canvas became my playground, painting the material of thought, where my research towards a personal requirement of expression and the emotions that ran through me was superimposed.

Then leaving the external gaze, I began to work with shapes and colors that articulate, challenge, organize themselves towards a final subject belonging to an interior world where certain symbols become recurrent. Birds, trees, faces are the pretexts for the play of lines, shapes and colors tending towards their materialities and their intensities in the surface of the canvas....

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1960
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists