ABOUT
A sensory experience
of the world, between nature,
music and memory.
Painting a feeling
Simone Monney is a Swiss artist based in Nyon whose work defies easy categorisation. For over twenty years, she has refined an artistic voice that moves between lyrical abstraction, sensory art and immersive installation, deeply rooted in emotion, spontaneity and the subtle dialogue between nature, music and memory. Her creative process follows no strict theory: it is guided by intuition and the rhythm of life itself. Her canvases vibrate with energy, her installations envelop the senses, and her work is made to be felt, experienced and absorbed as much as seen.
Each canvas is a kind of visual sonata, in which colours become notes. Nature is a true collaborator: petals, twilight skies and rivers inform her palettes and compositions. Inspired by the Flower Power movement of the 1970s, she uses flowers and butterflies as emblems of peace, healing and harmony.
NATURE . EMOTION . INTUITION
From fragrances to painting
Before devoting herself fully to the visual arts, Simone spent fifteen years in the world of perfumery. There, she mastered the art of olfactory composition and the creation of multisensory spaces, an unusual path that continues to shape her artistic identity. Those years taught her that a fragrance can awaken memories and emotions as powerfully as a colour or a sound. In many of her exhibitions, she brings fragrance and music into the gallery: by layering sensory experiences, she invites viewers to encounter the work through sight, but also through smell, hearing and even touch, in environments that are both calming and rich in sensation.
A pioneer of multisensory abstraction, she has exhibited at renowned institutions and in exhibitions held alongside the Venice Biennale. In a hurried world, her art reminds us of the power of subtlety, silence and attention to the senses.
MATERIAL . MEMORY . MUSIC . MOVEMENT
“Sometimes a single colour is enough to bring a whole memory back to life.”
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