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Ballroom Floor

Ballroom Floor

France

Nathalie Chapelain

Paint

Style: Figurative

Oil and Knife , Canva, 2025

81 cm x 65 cm

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The dancing couple, placed in the foreground, is magnified by a subtle play of light and contrasts. In the background, a lively jazz orchestra on stage infuses the whole with depth and musical atmosphere. The use of the palette knife gives the canvas a vibrant and expressive texture, particularly perceptible in the dancers' fabrics and in the reflections on the floor. The paint, applied in broad, energetic gestures, accentuates the impression of movement and spontaneity. The shades of blue and orange-ochre that adorn the dancers and their reflections emphasize the warmth and vitality of the scene. As for the touches of red and brown of the musicians, they establish a chromatic balance and plunge the whole into a nocturnal atmosphere full of animation.

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About the artist Nathalie Chapelain

Having just arrived in Rennes, I quickly took the pulse of this organic city – small enough to be affordable, large enough to offer a host of urban panoramas. From the perspective of a newcomer, I observed, for a long time, on foot, the everyday landscapes: squares, intersections, buildings… Far from the timber-framed buildings, the markets and the parks, to see “what makes a city”, to watch its heart beat. To understand its intimacy, what is never shown. Its rains. Its nights. Its asphalt. Its reflections.

It is this alphabet that writes the daily life of Rennes that I wanted to paint in a sharp, knife-like manner. Like Rennes, the lines are vivid, the colors pop, and energy bursts forth from behind the false tranquility of the wise buildings.

At the other end of Rennes, at the very end, other territories: the sea, the ocean, the harbors, the docks... always within train reach. From my platform I set off on an expedition to the port cities with the same approach: to paint the beauty of everyday life at sea, the delicate harshness of the raw port construction sites. The infinity of colors faded by the years. Machines and men, rust and definitive horizons. The majesty of sea vessels that express, in their own way, the power of the ordinary.