ABOUT ME

Natacha Couvelaire has always viewed creation as a journey—an exploration of invisible worlds that take shape through color, light, and movement. Her work is a bridge between the tangible and the intangible, between ancestral techniques and the energy of the digital realm.

From an early age, she was introduced to the visual arts by artists who trained her in various pictorial techniques, such as silk painting, Japanese painting, watercolor, gouache, and Chinese ink. These techniques shaped her vision and sensitivity, leading her to perceive each detail as a vibration, each composition as a resonance.

Within each of her works, she introduces an infinite number of forms in a single piece: depending on the distance and angle of observation, hidden structures emerge, offering a multitude of readings and possible interpretations.

Her journey has led her to participate in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Grand Palais, and to create custom designs for theater productions as well as motifs for haute couture designers.

In the 2000s, her practice evolved: she replaced traditional brushes with a graphic tablet, exploring a new form of visual creation. While her tools have changed, her approach remains that of a painter—each work begins on a blank space and develops progressively, with no photographic elements, no layering of pre-existing images.

She notably developed a series of digital creations in partnership with a renowned silk manufacturer in Lyon, producing over 50 works printed as one-of-a-kind pieces on silk, bridging the gap between textile craftsmanship and contemporary art.

A Singular Pictorial Approach

Today, her work is expressed through medium to large-scale paintings, printed as unique pieces on Alu-Dibond or ChromaLuxe. Each piece is a vibrational composition, where light and colors intertwine in a hypnotic movement. She does not seek to depict reality, but rather to create immersive visual spaces, where each viewer finds their own resonance.

What defines her work is its visual density, its richness in detail, allowing for endless interpretations. From a distance, the pieces radiate an almost cosmic luminosity, but up close, a profusion of shapes and textures emerges, revealing a hidden architecture.

Each creation is named after a celestial or terrestrial place, chosen for its resonance with the interplay of light and the vibrations it evokes. Her work does not tell a fixed story, but rather offers a sensory and intimate experience, inviting each viewer to project their own imagination onto it.