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Heidi Nguyen

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Heidi Nguyen is one of Ireland’s foremost contemporary landscape painters, Born in France, she studied art at Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arts Appliques and also at Academie Julian in Paris. She worked as Artistic Director for “Climat” in Paris before relocating to Ireland in the 1990s.
For some years now Nguyen has immersed herself in the beautiful landscape of Donegal where she draws upon the wonderful shifting light in her translucent abstracted landscapes.
Several painters come to mind as one peruses the paintings of Heidi Nguyen.
The luminous colour in her work is reminiscent of the great Irish painter Roderic OConnor 1860-1940. His penchant for making marks with pure rich colour evident in the intense rocky seascapes from his Fauve period.This varied use of colour on the larger scale would remind one of the strong passionate works of the late great Helen Frankenthaler who was an exponent of the 1950s American Colour Field movement.Heidi Nguyen’s hazy landscapes with deep, rich pools and lakes would also make one think of the exceptional quality in the misty forests and lakes of Zao Wou-ki . This Chinese-French painter is the worlds’ most renowned living artist.
Her practice of working en plein air has gone a long way to form and inform the intense, lucid colour that has become the signature of Nguyen’s mesmerizing landscapes.
Over the years she has exhibited and shown in Donegal, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Armenia and in her native France.
She is showing with Ross Fine Art and also at the prestigious Nicholas Gallery in Belfast. Her work is held in collections across Europe. In recent months Heidi Nguyen’s work is enjoying a new level of exposure.