EXHIBITION – SEA EFFECT

Corinne Duhamel is exhibiting her works at the Léopold Senghor Cultural Centre
Corinne Duhamel’s main occupation is that of a doctor, a profession which plays an essential and central role in her life and in her relationships with others. In her day-to-day work, this involves listening with empathy, observing, supporting others, and coming into contact with human vulnerability. It is within this context that painting emerged for her, from 1999 onwards, as a complementary and necessary outlet, enabling her to express in a different way what the human experience stirs within her.
Painting has become a way of extending her perspective on the world. Whilst medicine anchors her deeply in reality, in her focus on others and in precision, painting allows her to open up a freer, more intuitive and creative space, where emotion, memory and sensitivity can be expressed without constraint. Far from being at odds with one another, these two activities engage in a dialogue within her and nourish the way she feels and creates.

Her artistic journey has developed gradually, through personal practice and a deep need to create. Painting offers her a new lease of life, but also a place of silence and escape. In her work, she explores rather vivid colours, texture, forms and techniques, all as means of conveying an inner perception of life. She likes her works to emerge from a balance between mastery and spontaneity, between intention and chance, resulting in an eclectic style.
She took a year’s course at the Caen School of Fine Arts in 2000; subsequently, lacking the time to devote to this art, she pursued her dream as a self-taught artist, whilst joining painters’ associations such as the Peintres du Bessin for two years, during which time she took part in several local exhibitions, and more recently the AMAC since 2023 (an association of artists all from the medical and paramedical fields). They have held exhibitions at the Galerie Cré-Arts in Caen in 2023, at the Résidence Beau-Soleil in Deauville in 2024 and at the Galerie des Croisiers in Caen in 2025. Most recently, she has also joined forces with the ‘Les Musoirs’ Association in Grandcamp-Maisy, enabling her to exhibit at the Salle Omnisport alongside some thirty other painters and sculptors, all of whom are highly inventive and of a high standard.

Her artistic approach is, above all, sensitive and introspective. She seeks not merely to represent, but to evoke, to suggest, to bring out an emotion or a presence. For her, each canvas is a unique experience, a way of approaching in a different light what moves her, affects her or raises questions within her. Painting thus becomes a parallel language – silent, yet universal.
Being both a doctor and a painter allows her to inhabit two complementary worlds: one centred on care, listening and relationships; the other on freedom, intuition and the imagination. Within this unique union, painting holds a precious place, serving as a space for personal truth and sensitive expression; she wishes to share the passion and pleasure it brings with a diverse audience, thereby transforming these encounters into an indispensable artistic driving force.