La rencontre de Nicole Bousquet avec la peinture est née de son enfance. Peindre est un refuge. Dès l'âge de quitter le domicile familial, elle arrête. "La peinture était reléguée dans une case de mon cerveau, fermée à clef avec mes souvenirs douloureux d’enfant où je trouvais un abri au milieu de forêts obscures que j'inventais sur mes toiles "
Nicole Bousquet a vécu plusieurs vies. Mannequin à Paris, directrice du magazine « Sud International», infographiste pour Aston Martin, créatrice d’événements tels que la Romeria de Mauguio ou bénévole engagée contre la violence faite aux femmes... Depuis qu'elle reprend ses pinceaux en 2010, les expositions se succèdent. En 2023 la peintre nîmoise ajoute son nom à la prestigieuse lignée des artistes internationaux ayant réalisé l’affiche de la Feria de sa ville..
Une démarche chère à Nicole Bousquet, l’effacement. L’effacement… ou ne serait-ce pas l’inverse, l'apparition progressive de la forme à l'œil, ce qu’il reste par delà le superficiel : la permanence de l'être ? Ce qu’il reste au-delà de la superficialité, des artifices. Nicole Bousquet lutte contre l'oubli. Alchimiste de douceur, d’énergie, de ténacité, elle apprivoise les matières, les fait couleur, trace de l’instant, pureté implacable, les transmute en vie éternelle, en regards qui jaillissent jusqu’à nous pour ne plus nous quitter.
Nicole Bousquet's encounter with painting began in her childhood. Painting is a refuge. As soon as she left her family home, she stopped painting.
"Painting had been locked away in a corner of my mind, sealed with the painful memories of a childhood where I found shelter in the dark forests I invented on my canvases."
"Painting had been locked away in a corner of my mind, sealed with the painful memories of a childhood where I found shelter in the dark forests I invented on my canvases."
Nicole Bousquet has lived many lives. A model in Paris, director of the magazine Sud International, graphic designer for Aston Martin, creator of events such as the Romeria de Mauguio, or a committed volunteer against violence towards women… Since picking up her brushes again in 2010, she has exhibited her work regularly. In 2023, the Nîmes-based painter joined the prestigious ranks of international artists who have designed the poster for her city’s Feria.
A key element in Nicole Bousquet's artistic approach is erasure.
Erasure... or could it be the opposite? The gradual emergence of form to the eye, what remains beyond the superficial: the permanence of being? What endures beyond appearances and artifice. Nicole Bousquet fights against forgetting. An alchemist of gentleness, energy, and tenacity, she tames materials, brings them to life with color, captures fleeting moments with an implacable purity, and transmutes them into eternal life—into gazes that burst forth and stay with us forever.
Erasure... or could it be the opposite? The gradual emergence of form to the eye, what remains beyond the superficial: the permanence of being? What endures beyond appearances and artifice. Nicole Bousquet fights against forgetting. An alchemist of gentleness, energy, and tenacity, she tames materials, brings them to life with color, captures fleeting moments with an implacable purity, and transmutes them into eternal life—into gazes that burst forth and stay with us forever.