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Mougenot NatalyaContemporary abstract expressionist oil on canvas "Finding serenity in nature"2024
2024
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This contemporary abstract expressionist nature painting was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot and is part of her ongoing series dedicated to nature. For Natalya, this series is deeply personal — it reflects her continuous exploration of the emotional and spiritual relationship between people and the natural world. Her aim is not to depict nature realistically, but to capture its feeling, its essence, through her expressive and intuitive style.
“When I portray nature, I feel a freedom that truly liberates me. I breathe in the scent of early summer, just as it lives on this canvas. Here, nature is captured in that fleeting moment before the heat strips away all its greenery,” Natalya shares.
Titled "Finding Serenity in Nature," this painting beautifully reflects that fleeting moment of early summer — when the land is still lush, before the sun strips it bare. Created in her Lyon studio during the summer of 2024, this work speaks to the universal longing for stillness, balance, and reconnection in our fast-paced urban lives.
“I believe that everyone living in a crowded, bustling city is meant to find those precious moments alone with nature. It is there that we can reclaim the energy we lose amidst the noise and rush of urban life.”
Rendered in oil on stretched cotton canvas, the artwork measures 50 x 70 x 1.5 cm (approximately 19.7 x 27.5 x 0.6 inches) and is ready to hang. It radiates calm and quiet strength. The sky, painted in soft, luminous blues and greens, dominates the canvas — inviting the viewer to breathe deeply and pause. Gentle mountains in muted greys and blues anchor the background, while rich green forests and earthy red accents create contrast and energy. A light green field in the foreground provides a sense of space and openness, drawing the viewer into the scene.
Natalya's technique — bold, spontaneous brushstrokes combined with subtle color transitions — emphasizes her core artistic value: authenticity. Every painting is a genuine emotional response, not a calculated reproduction.
“As I worked on this piece, my mind was filled with the serenity that nature gifts us. I felt a profound sense of connection, stillness, and peace — a reminder of our need to find harmony both with the world around us and within ourselves.”
"Finding Serenity in Nature" is more than a landscape — it’s an invitation to slow down and reconnect with something timeless. Mougenot's ability to distill emotion into color and movement makes this work a powerful reminder of the restorative power of nature.
The painting comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and is shipped worldwide, carefully packaged to ensure its safe arrival.
About the Artist:
Originally from Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, and now based in Lyon, France, Natalya Mougenot has spent over two decades refining her artistic voice. Her multicultural background and personal experience inform her bold, expressive works, which have found homes in private collections around the world.
Natalya’s distinctive visual language blends Abstract Expressionism, Impressionism, Art Naïf, and Art Brut—resulting in paintings that are raw, instinctive, and emotionally resonant. Across her work, three values guide her: authenticity, sincerity, and honesty.
“Authenticity is everything,” she says. “People can always feel when something is real—or when it’s not. I want my work to be honest, to come from a place that’s true.”
In addition to painting, Natalya is also a passionate photographer. Her photographic work—also featured on this platform—mirrors her painterly sensibility: a poetic, observational approach that captures the quiet power of everyday life. For her, photography is both inspiration and a form of presence, often serving as visual sketches for future paintings or existing as standalone works.
Discover more of Natalya Mougenot’s work—both paintings and photographs—and step into a world where movement, emotion, and human connection are expressed with striking clarity and truth.
- Creator:Mougenot Natalya (1981, French)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 27.56 in (70 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)Depth: 0.6 in (1.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:VÉNISSIEUX, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2490216785162
Natalya Mougenot id a french artist living in France for more than 20 years. She was born and grew up in Kazakhstan, the country known for its spacious steppes. She arrived in France 2003. Since that moment she loves her adoptive country. She started painting in 2017 and used it as a therapeutic and emotional release during times of crisis. She incorporates this therapeutic approach in her artistic creative process till now. In her artistic practice she refers to the terms of metamodernism, which proposes to look at the world from the position of the inner adult. As an artist and as a woman she translates the experience of her personal search for balance based on harmony between mind, soul and body. This balance, in her opinion, is the pillar for the inner adult. Important components of her work are authenticity, soulfulness, sincerity, emotionality and honesty. She immerses the objects and the characters in the world where there is no falsity, rudeness, loneliness and indifference. She works rapidly and is constantly sensitive to the details. Her artistic process is a fine balance between a pre-meditation and spontantainty which helps her to create her expressive atmospheric artworks with a modern touch of impressionism by cultivating a naive art approach. Natalya manipulates different mediums without a preconceived plan since she is guided by what she wants to express at the moment by embracing the quality of my materials. She does not deny that her artworks reflect her intuitive approach and her love for vibrant colors which represent her who she is. Natalya says she is never able to create the same piece more than once. Sometimes she paints from photos or images. Sometimes she paints from memory. She tells to herself : "Just be yourself when you create ".
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