Recently awarded internationally for my works, my approach aims to evolve the practice or at least modulate the aesthetics of the current form of figurative artistic expression. This is the research I am conducting, seeking to find a new contemporary language without renouncing tradition.
Over the past 15 years, I have developed a personal technique for applying oil on metal panels, offering me freedom in gesture, which translates into a distinctive expression. However, this technique only holds value when accompanied by the ability to let go, where the movement must be executed with a free, instinctive, and unrestrained intention. Beyond the technique, I feel the need to evoke, with emotion and musicality in the gesture, a macroscopic atmosphere of nature freed from human exploitation. The idea of such harmony involves letting go, where the concept of representation is replaced by spontaneity. I am passionate, even obsessed, with aesthetics because I strive to evoke the pure emotion that nature generates in humans when in a state of conscious observation.
My work is essentially a continuous experimentation on my vision of this pure beauty that transcends time and cultures, in
connection with the soul. Materializing the intangible is a quest that inhabits me. I believe that representing beauty awakens a need for protection and conservation, which we greatly need as a dominant species. As Simon Brault aptly titled, "And if art could change the world?"
Award-winning artist recognized for her endearing works, Nathalie Lapointe comes from the Lanaudière region, close to Montreal in Canada. Her style and artistic signature are constantly evolving, stimulated by both technical and aesthetic research. Always aiming to create works qualified as visual poetry, she is not anchored in any style or subject, but since 2009 prefers to let inspiration guide her professional journey. On the road of Quebec’s outdoor exhibitions, she rubbed shoulders with several generations of artists and art lovers who have all enriched her art in their own way.
Signature Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (SFCA) and Oil Painter of America (OPA), Nathalie has also been published in magazines such as PleinAir, American Art Collector, Art Avenue and Magazin’Art. As a university graduate in French and history teaching, visual art is part of a journey where the idea of timeless communication develops where the narrative framework of each creation finds its outcome in the eye of the viewer. Resulting oil paintings are an introspection where light and emotion share the leading role in her lifetime story entitled: The Art of Nathalie Lapointe.
