Nathalie Collange is a self-taught artist, originally born in Africa. She spent her youth in Paris before settling in Provence, where is she now based.
Collange offers viewers an unprejudiced view of our multicultural world, where gender is free, our instincts protean, and judgement scarce. Her work delves into the "têtes à têtes" of the human spirit, addressing our encounters with the greater world. Her paintings address the experience of personhood, the passing of time, love and loss with an admirable frankness, animality, and soul.
Collange's expressionistic paintings burst forth like a suppressed verbal flow, a soliloquy held back for far too long. There are no preliminary drawings created for her paintings -- no studies, no sketches, no defined palette. The lines that are inscribed will be the ones that remain, etched without premeditation or defined will. Only energy and sheer necessity create the work. Layer upon layer, texture is cemented. Gradually, the canvas reveals the artist's worldview. Through wild pencil strokes, Collange permits emotions to emerge without restraint, emotions which plague her, emotions which forcibly impose themselves upon her. Painting becomes a valve of sorts.
As a contemporary force, Collange has yet to come across an immovable object. She has exhibited throughout the world, and continues to receive international acclaim.