Céline De Abreu

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Born in 1980 in Toulouse, Céline de Abreu da Luz is of French and Portuguese origin. Before devoting herself fully to painting, she worked in the fields of beauty and commerce. But drawing has never left her life. “I’ve been drawing since I was little… Everything became a surface to draw on,” confides the self-taught artist. At 38, a car accident profoundly changed her path — a defining ordeal that brought her back to her first love: art as grounding, as a path of transformation.

Céline returned to painting, carried by an inner force long dormant. The search for meaning, justice, faith in humanity, and the mystery of life became the pillars of her artistic practice. “No words. Just feel.” That is her mantra. Where language falls silent, her canvases speak. They translate the unspoken, embody emotion, and gather silence. Her brushes become soul messengers.

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Her work was presented in Monaco in a group exhibition organized by Art Collect®, marking a new stage of recognition for the artist.

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Drawing inspiration from photographs that move her, Céline creates powerful and sensitive oil paintings. She engages with universal iconography — Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe, the Mona Lisa — figures known to all, which she reinvents with a personal touch and singular emotion. Depicting what is globally recognizable without falling into cliché is a challenge she meets brilliantly. Her paintings resonate with the public, captivating and moving those who encounter them.

“My paintings reflect what I feel deep within my soul… I transform what I perceive as most troubling into something more luminous,” she explains. This light is perceptible in the titles of her works: *L’Apaisée*, *L’Âme en paix*, *Have been loved*, *Percée*… Each canvas seems to offer a passage toward inner peace — a moment of breathing in a restless world.

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Céline’s art is both intimate and universal. It moves the viewer because it speaks to what is most deeply human: the need for peace, the quest for authenticity, the transcendence of fragility. It is a form of intuitive art therapy, where each creation becomes a refuge. In front of her paintings, visitors recognize themselves, let go, and sometimes rise again.