Harmonie 2 (2023) Painting by Sophie Dumont

Sophie Dumont is a contemporary French painter. Her landscapes evolves in modulations with blurred contours, to suggest volumes more than to draw a precise motif. The palette, in often more muted tones, suggests more than it imposes a resembling construction. The freedom of the artist joins that of the spectator, invited, whatever the theme, to enter the canvas to bring his interpretation and let himself be invaded by his own emotions. The multiple layers of matter patiently elaborate the transparencies from which the lights emerge. 

Certain paintings can evoke the influence of Nicolas de Staël by their graphic simplicity, and tend by their fluidity, towards a lyrical abstraction which erases the visible appearances of reality. The variations of black, gray and white, for example, concentrate all the energy contained in nature, in a play of perspectives and lights where the line fades to the benefit of the general atmosphere of the canvas. But at the same time the style follows a continuous evolution which will be expressed later in a series on libraries, where the book appears more as an evocation of a culture than as an everyday object. 

Sophie Dumont was born in 1964, in Paris. Her works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally.