Genevieve Duc

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Born into a family of artists, Geneviève Duc grew up amid the vibrant atmosphere of Montmartre studios, steeped in the scents of linseed oil, turpentine, and fusing colors. Her mother and grandfather, both painters in Montmartre, passed on to her the love of gesture, the sense of observation, and the magic of pigments. This artistic lineage, rich in meaning and heritage, opened early for her the doors to a world where expression unfolds through canvas. A former student of the École du Louvre, Geneviève Duc has combined for over thirty years her pictorial vocation with her passion for teaching within her studio in Drôme Provençale.

This creative space, bathed in light and inspiring silence, is also a place of sharing: she teaches painting to those who, like her, seek to translate their perceptions of the world into visual emotions. But Geneviève’s work goes far beyond aesthetics. It is an exploration of the subtle link between the tangible and the invisible. The material is present, yet it converses with air, breath, and mystery.

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

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“I speak about what I receive from the world,” she confides. “Because the world is beautiful — it belongs to you, it belongs to me. I speak to you from within, from within us.” Her painting is therefore both grounded and celestial, nourished by a lucid gaze on our times yet always turned toward beauty, depth, and light. From her figurative beginnings, she gradually moved toward symbolic abstraction, letting lines, gestures, and textures vibrate as silent messages.

Engaged and sensitive, Geneviève Duc draws inspiration from the upheavals of the contemporary world — violence, crises, social movements. She paints what touches the human soul, what unsettles at times, what awakens. Through her works, she questions the loss of meaning but also offers gateways to escape and light. Her series “Les Néons” was born this way — as a leap through time, a nostalgic immersion into the 1970s–1980s, when people danced, shouted, created, loved. Bar signs, urban graffiti, provocative silhouettes: the artist invokes the aesthetics of pop art to rekindle a breath of freedom and hope.

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Her mixed technique mirrors her way of thinking — free, inventive, and refined. Geneviève Duc works with oil using a brush or palette knife, blending it with gold, silver, or copper leaf, and sometimes adding gemstone dust — ruby, lapis lazuli, opal — as if to reintroduce into painting a touch of magic, mineral vibration, and hidden mystery. Matter becomes light, and color becomes energy.

What she cherishes above all is that fleeting moment of encounter — when a gaze lingers, emotion arises unexpectedly, and an intimate, sincere, immediate bond is woven between the artwork and the viewer. Featured in numerous art salons and solo exhibitions in France and abroad — Paris, Cannes, Deauville, Berlin, Tokyo, Geneva, London, and even Karachi — Geneviève Duc continues to enchant the eye and make the invisible vibrate on canvas. Between earthly grounding and inner elevation, her art is a journey.