About me
A Journey Guided by Art
From a very young age, Monique Pauwels nurtured a deep artistic sensitivity, finding in drawing and painting a natural means of expression. Yet life first led her toward an intense legal career until a decisive turning point when she realized that life was unique and precious and that it was time for her to write, or rather to paint, its pages.
Passionate about art in all its forms, she first shaped herself alone, experimenting with a language that would allow her to transcend her feelings through shadow and light, transparency and opacity. Her demand for perfection then led her to take academic courses at the Atelier de Jean Uroz where she was able to master and then deepen the various rules and pictorial techniques.
Over the years, Monique Pauwels has developed a personal and eminently recognizable style, exhibiting her works in various fairs and galleries. Between figurative and abstract, the artist reflects the palette of her emotions with an intense relationship to the world around her.
Born in Neuchâtel, Monique Pauwels shares her life between Switzerland and France.
Her Painting, a Window into Emotion
Acrylic is her preferred medium: fast, free, instinctive.
For her, abstraction does not exist. Everything is a matter of perspective. If one observes the Earth from the sky, one first perceives shapes, shadows, colors, a subtle play of light and materials. Then little by little, a rhythm emerges, an emotion surfaces, and creative energy comes to life. It is this vibration that she seeks to capture.
This constant wonder in the face of the beauty of the Earth is a source of pure delight that carries and nourishes her. Each painting is a captured emotion, a suspended moment where magic operates…
Exhibitions :
October 2014: Lions Club Besançon, France (group show)
May–October 2015: Galerie Viviane Ranaldi, Porto-Vecchio, Corsica
October 2015: Lions Club Besançon, France (group show)
January–March 2016: Hôtel Carlton, Lausanne, Switzerland
October–November 2016: Galerie “Atelier BV5”, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
February–April 2017: Galerie “Atelier BV5”, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
February 2017–March 2018: Intérieur Sud, Cannes, France
May–September 2018: Galerie Marval, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
May–October 2018: Galerie Viviane Ranaldi, Porto-Vecchio, Corsica
October 2018–February 2019: Galerie des Lombards, Mougins-Village, France
October 2018–March 2019: Galerie Marval, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
March 2019–February 2020: Galerie Robert Deniau, Mougins-Village, France
May–October 2019: Galerie Viviane Ranaldi, Porto-Vecchio, Corsica
May–October 2020: Galerie Viviane Ranaldi, Porto-Vecchio, Corsica
June–July 2021: Salon des Refusés, Art Fair, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
July 2020–2021: Sifas Décoration, Cannes, France
May 2021: Parcours culturel, Group show, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
May–October 2021: Galerie Viviane Ranaldi, Porto-Vecchio, Corsica
October 2021–February 2022: Galerie Marval, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
April 2–23, 2022: Galerie Artesol, Solothurn, Switzerland
April–October 2022: Galerie Viviane Ranaldi, Porto-Vecchio, Corsica
June 24–26, 2022: Monat Gallery, International Contemporary Art Fair, Monaco
January 23–February 21, 2023: Monat Gallery, Madrid, Spain
May 5–20, 2023: Galerie de l’Evole, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
October 31–November 13, 2023: Galerie am Lindenhof, Zurich, Switzerland
November 23–26, 2023: Atelier Verdan, Exhibition + book – Parcours culturel, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
April–October 2024: Galerie Viviane Ranaldi, Porto-Vecchio, Corsica
June 28–July 19, 2024: Horizon Paris 8ème Art (HP8A), Group show, Galerie Francis Barlier, Paris, France
October 2–12, 2024: Galerie Gijsel, Geneva, Switzerland
October 17–27, 2024: Group show, Art Gland, Gland, Switzerland
November 4–23, 2024: Group show HP8A, Hôtel Particulier Beaujon, Paris, France
April 24–May 1, 2025: Group show, AMAB, Assisi, Italy
December 6, 2025–January 31, 2026: La Galleria…un’altra storia, Perugia, Italy
March 5–April 4, 2026: Group show, Galerie d’art contemporain R. Coquibus, Vaumarcus, Switzerland
April 30–May 30, 2026: Galerie Katapult, Basel, Switzerland
May 7–10, 2026: Art Fair Lausanne