Edição 9 - Eng - Amazônia - Brazil

Desire for beauty

As we approach Denise Dumont’s canvases for this special Amazon edition of ArtNow

Report, we are invited to traverse the very thickness of time and forest. Here, green is

more than just a color: it is living substance, suspended atmosphere, a breath

transplanted from the vast rainforest into the fabric of the canvas. Through the artist’s

gesture, the Amazon pulses — not as an illustrative image, but as an unavoidable

presence, a silent call to sensory immersion.

Denise Dumont’s compositions act as portals to states of mind rooted in abstraction. The

stains, the densities, the interplay of green tones — sometimes damp moss, sometimes

luminous clearings — suggest multiple inner landscapes and an Amazon that is felt

rather than described. Each layer reveals the forest’s invisible architecture: a play of

filtered light, heavy silences, and sudden bursts of awe. Her technique, rich in gesture

and material, unfolds textures evoking tree trunks, mist, and the vertigo of the vegetal

horizon, as if her brushstrokes were winds bending the treetops.

In her recent work, Amazonian green also thickens into metaphor: ancestral strength,

comfort, and resilience. As we contemplate her canvases, we are led into a state of

suspension, immersed in nuances that overflow from the visible into the intangible.

Denise creates atmospheres that spark a synesthetic experience, conjuring memories of

wet earth, water, shadow, and shifting sunlight.

Denise understands the power of color like few others. In her universe, color is not an

accessory — it is emotional substance. Green, in particular, becomes a living metaphor.

It is healing. It is cycle. It is continuity. It is the interval between what was and what can

still bloom. At the same time, it is a quiet protest — a reminder that beauty also needs

protection.

Yet this aesthetic potency does not end at the canvas. Denise Dumont channels the

transformative power of art into the spaces we inhabit: her work is not decoration but a

vibrating soul, granting identity and creating unique atmospheres. Opening oneself to

Denise’s green is, therefore, opening oneself to wonder and connection — to what, in the

artist’s own words, “gives soul to spaces.”

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