Fanny Nushka Moreaux is a French figurative painter whose work sits at the intersection of representation and abstraction, using the human form as a springboard for a deeper inquiry into presence, absence, and the nature of beauty itself. She describes her paintings as exploring iconic, idealised beauty, deliberately veiled so that the subject becomes a pretext for something more
abstract: what she calls the alchemy of being present, or absent, to oneself. Her compositions enclose figures within geometric structures, diagonals, and perspective lines that she treats as the structural backbone of each work, creating a tension between intimacy and distance. Viewers are drawn close by the quality of her brushwork, then held deliberately at arm's length, a dynamic she sees as central to every series she makes.
Her training was international and eclectic, shaped by three painters across different continents. The American painter Zawacky first taught her the art of line in Detroit, before Maggie Siner, whom she considers her mentor to this day, taught her the mechanics of colour. Back in Paris, the painter Hashpa taught her the sensuality of the model and the delicate art of composition. This transatlantic education gives her work a quality she describes as a harmonious blend of American and European inspiration, a duality that underpins the originality of her style.
After periods in New York, Sydney, and Paris, Moreaux established her studio in Marseille in 2015, where she continues to live and work.
