Joy on the beach,
2025
Natalya Mougenot
Painting : oil
33 x 24 x 0.3 cm 13 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€280
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About the artwork
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33 x 24 x 0.3 cm 13 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: France
This contemporary impressionist oil painting depicting a woman was created by the French artist Natalya Mougenot. Titled Joy on the Beach, the work is an expressive self-portrait that captures a moment of pure presence and personal joy. The artist portrays herself seated directly on the sand, facing the open sky, arms raised in a gesture that radiates elation, surrender, and connection to the natural world.
Clad in a simple black sports outfit, the woman stands out in sharp contrast against the vivid, sun-drenched hues of the sea and sky. Painted from behind, she is not objectified but instead offered as a presence—poised, grounded, and alive within the scene. This subtle perspective invites the viewer into an introspective space, one that honors both movement and stillness.
Rendered in dynamic, impressionistic brushwork, the painting pulses with energy. Mougenot's intuitive use of color and texture enhances the emotional resonance of the piece, while her masterful play of light and shadow creates a sense of depth and immediacy. Joy on the Beach becomes more than a portrait—it is a visual meditation on serenity, freedom, and the healing power of place.
In this work, Mougenot blends visual languages—abstract, impressionist, and art brut. The influence of art brut runs deep, not just as a stylistic choice, but as the core of her creative philosophy. For the artist, art brut symbolizes unfiltered authenticity, where instinct overrides convention, and emotion gives rise to form. This self-portrait reflects that ethos: raw, spontaneous, and emotionally honest.
Joy on the Beach embraces imperfection, celebrates vulnerability, and invites viewers into a moment of profound sincerity. Every brushstroke reveals a quiet narrative; every color a glimpse into an internal world.
About the Artist
Natalya Mougenot, born in Kazakhstan and based in Lyon, France, brings a unique emotional depth and cultural richness to her work. Her paintings explore the intersection between the external world and the inner self, rendered with boldness, fragility, and instinct. Deeply inspired by the expressive power of art brut, she seeks to create from a place of emotional truth rather than technical control.
Her work is held in private collections across Europe and beyond, resonating with collectors who value authenticity and the poetic strength of unfiltered expression.
Shipping & Presentation
The artwork ships directly from France and includes a Certificate of Authenticity. Created in June 2025 in Mougenot's Lyon studio, it is available unframed, allowing collectors to display it according to their personal aesthetic. Photographs of interior settings are provided for inspiration only.
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Presentation
Natalya is a contemporary french artist living in Lyon.
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.
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