The Galerie Montmartre
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Joanna Ingarden-Mouly
Joanna Ingarden-Mouly was born in 1961 in Krakow, Poland, at a time when the country was in turmoil. She left at the age of 20 after studying literature, art history, and drawing.
She then went on to enrich her artistic background in Paris and New York, before settling near Lausanne, where she set up her own studio in collaboration with designer Thierry Pierre.
This space, called “La Menuiserie,” is much more than just a studio; it is designed as a place for meetings and exchanges with the public and other artists.
Our artworks
Biography
Through a subtle combination of pictorial techniques, Joanna Ingarden-Mouly breaks free from the constraints of academic style to express herself with greater freedom and passion. Her brushstrokes unfold on the canvas with subtle force, at times seeming to delicately tear the surface. She explores space, playing with voids, solids, and reliefs.
In her works, nature is not merely represented, it literally bursts onto the canvas to merge with it. The colors, without subtle gradations, are rich and stretched, captivating the viewer’s eye with a dazzling variety of hues. It is not brutality that dominates, but rather a feeling of elevation towards an ocean of gentleness. Earth, sky, and sea find in her art a space that fills and empties itself according to textures and hues.
The gallery presents a series of six compositions of dazzling intensity. The three elements—earth, sea, air—dear to Joanna Ingarden-Mouly come together in these canvases, but never in a uniform way. The variety of shapes and textures reveals a wild and untamed nature. Yet there is no confusion, only the frank expression of pure emotion. The painter skillfully blends colors with striking tones, inviting us to navigate through imaginary landscapes, like an archipelago in the midst of a storm or an island covered with lush vegetation.