Discover the contemporary work of Dominique Nugues

Dominique Nugues is a multidisciplinary artist whose unique career combines theater, graphic design, drawing, and painting. After an initial career in the world of live performance, he has devoted himself to the visual arts for the past fifteen years, with a strong emphasis on acrylic painting, drawing, and digital prints.

His work explores collective memory and traces of the sacred in everyday life. He draws inspiration from biblical figures, religious architecture, folk art, and human encounters. Spirituality, silence, and the persistence of ancient gestures permeate his creativity. Working on canvas, paper, and digital files, he favors a sober palette, refined compositions, and a focus on humanity, in its fragile and universal aspects.

Dominique sees painting as a space of freedom and dialogue, a way of questioning the world by engaging the viewer's eye. His works offer a pause, a breath, an invitation to contemplate what resists oblivion.

He lives and works in France, where He regularly exhibits his work through private presentations and an online gallery.

My painting is a quest for traces and presence. Inspired by forgotten faces, biblical figures, deserted places, and fragments of history, I seek to reveal a silent memory, a diffuse spirituality. My work is rooted in listening to the world, inherited from my career as an actor, and extends into pictorial medium, between drawing, acrylic, and digital printmaking.

I draw on ancient sources—typographies, religious statues, popular images—which I revisit through a contemporary gesture. Each work is an invitation to look differently, to slow down, to inhabit time. It is not about transmitting a message, but about creating a space for dialogue: between past and present, visible and invisible.