Velvet force,
2025
Natalya Mougenot
Painting : acrylic
42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$409
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42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: France
This contemporary abstract expressive portrait, Velvet Force, was created in 2025 by French artist Natalya Mougenot in her studio in Lyon, France. The figure at the heart of the piece is faceless, yet unmistakably present. She is defined not by physical features, but by energy—radiating strength, quiet confidence, and transformative grace.
Velvet Force is a poetic meditation on the dual nature of feminine strength: tender yet unyielding, soft yet unbreakable. The title encapsulates this paradox—velvet, symbolizing softness and sensitivity, and force, representing depth, determination, and resilience. The woman portrayed becomes a symbol of every woman—a universal mirror reflecting the beauty of self-possession and inner power.
Through fluid brushstrokes and richly layered textures, the painting communicates a power that does not need to shout to be heard. There are no sharp outlines, no rigid definitions. Her strength is flowing, organic, and deeply rooted. The abstraction allows for boundless interpretation, making space for every viewer to project their own journey of becoming—of stepping into authenticity without apology.
Mougenot paints with instinct and immediacy, allowing emotional truth to guide each movement of the brush. Her process is raw, intuitive, and unfiltered, lending a vivid sense of life to her work. In Velvet Force, this authenticity is luminous. It speaks to the kind of confidence that is not performative but lived—emerging from within rather than imposed from without.
At the core of Mougenot's artistic vision lies a reverence for feminine resilience and emotional honesty. Velvet Force is more than a portrait; it is a tribute to the strength that builds quietly, the power that listens before it speaks, the elegance of knowing oneself fully. It celebrates the feminine as a living force—ever-evolving, deeply intuitive, and profoundly rooted.
Crafted with professional acrylics on heavyweight, acid-free paper and sealed with varnish, the artwork is sold unframed and ships internationally from France with a Certificate of Authenticity. It arrives carefully packaged, ready to be framed and cherished as a reminder of personal growth and the quiet, blooming power within.
About the Artist
Natalya Mougenot, born in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, in 1981, has lived in Lyon, France, since 2003. Her multicultural background and personal journey deeply inform her work, which explores themes of resilience, femininity, and inner truth. What began as a therapeutic practice has blossomed into a powerful artistic language—one that honors the spirit of transformation and the beauty found in emotional honesty. Her pieces now reside in private collections across the globe.
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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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