Manon Dumas

The art name Manon Dumas hides a complete and whole-rounded artist who has mastered many styles during her extensive career.

Manon is an experienced painter, architect, journalist, fashion and interior designer whose interest for the visual arts began to show from an early age.

Her father, a Frenchman from Avignon, and her Italian mother, nurtured Manon’s interest and passion for art introducing her to the rich artistic heritage of Italy and France.

Her natural talent allowed her to train in the best academies and with outstanding artists who played an important role in inspiring her past and current works. She trained with Pierangelo Piazzo, a well-known Italian figurative and landscape painter, who inspired Manon’s early landscapes and paintings of picturesque corners of the south of France and north of Italy. She perfected her landscape style with the training and guidance of Guy Rivoir, who helped her to reach a mature technique full of depth and character.

She also studied with designer Bruno Munari, who inspired in her the studies of shapes and colours. Munari’s training and inspiration can still be appreciated in her geometric works.

Another important and very influential part of Manon’s training happened at the studio of the sculptor Piero Cerrato, where she deepened and perfected her study of the dimensions of the human body completing her as an artist.

In recent years, Manon has been exploring Neo-Realism and Abstractism while embracing new techniques such as fluid and pull painting.