Marie-Amélie Chéreau is a French contemporary artist, known for her luminous and spiritual oil paintings, created through the combined use of palette knife and brush. Her work is rooted in lyrical symbolism— a fusion of spontaneous gestural abstraction and spiritual symbolism, where movement flows freely yet is interwoven with an intentional language of signs, colours, and textures that carry meaning beyond the visible.

​Her artistic path was freed from a profound inner awakening, following a life rupture that shattered the surface of her former existence.

In the years that followed, she embraced the artist she had always been — deeply influenced by her grandmother, herself a painter, and trained from childhood through her teenage years at the Martenot Art School in Paris. Painting then became both refuge and revelation. Through the act of creation, she began to recover parts of herself — some conscious, others still hidden in the layers of silence and forgetting. A portion of her memory remains inaccessible, like a locked room. It is within this space of mystery, resilience, and spiritual transmission that her art was ready to unfold.

​Each canvas becomes an act of faith, a humble response to a presence greater than the self. Her abstract works, structured with brush lines before being sculpted with the palette knife, evoke light breaking through darkness and often reveal symbolic figures: animals, eyes, angels, or faces that seem to surface of their own accord, as if called forth by the canvas itself.

 Walking in the footsteps of Kandinsky and Twombly, and deeply inspired by Monet and Soulages, she explores a form of painting where abstraction and symbolism are inseparable, and where the lyrical gesture serves as a conduit for spiritual resonance. Even if she can recount the impulse behind each painting, her works are not meant to be understood — they are meant to be felt. They speak to the soul and to what lies beyond consciousness.

 Her paintings have been exhibited in Paris, Munich, Geneva, Miami, and Chicago, and are held in private collections worldwide.

 On occasion, she shares her artistic and personal journey through talks or intimate creative workshops. These rare and carefully chosen moments of transmission are always anchored in the very essence of her work as a painter.