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Mougenot NatalyaContemporary abstract expressionist painting on paper "Harbour of strength"2025
2025
$711.63
£534.18
€600
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This contemporary abstract expressionist landscape was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot and forms part of her ongoing series dedicated to the profound and ever-changing power of nature. In this work, "Harbor of Strength", Mougenot translates the rhythms of the natural world into emotion and movement — a dance of blues, greens, and soft pinks that captures the tension between serenity and turbulence. The sweeping brushstrokes and layers of color suggest the meeting of sky and sea, but also the inner landscape of resilience and renewal that mirrors nature’s own cycles.
As Mougenot often explains, “Authenticity in art comes from the absence of control — when the gesture becomes truth and the canvas becomes a mirror of the soul.” Her expressive and intuitive approach allows emotion to guide each mark, rather than any premeditated plan. In her words, “I don’t paint what I see; I paint what I feel — the vibration of life beneath the surface.”
Through this raw and spontaneous process, "Harbor of Strength" emerges as more than a depiction of nature — it becomes a conversation between emotion and landscape, a reflection of the human spirit’s quiet persistence and the beauty found within change.
Details:
Title: "Harbour of strength"
Medium: Acrylic on heavyweight professional acid-free paper, varnished for protection
Dimensions: 50 × 65 cm (19.68 × 25.59 in)
Signed on the front and back
Certificate of Authenticity included
International delivery from France
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:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 25.6 in (65 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:VÉNISSIEUX, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2490217056962
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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