Nathalie Brenac was born and raised in Congo and Gabon on the African west coast. She is a vital and versatile artist specialized in aesthetic and environmental concerns. Drawing has always been part of her young life. When she moved to the United State as an adult, she began her creative life by doing commissionned work, creating murals, painting, furniture treatments and embellishments to enhance and define living spaces.

     Be it classical or modern, Nathalie`s knowledge of art's design and history pulls of her truly international background with a definite influence of Africa`s spirituality:, dignity pride and resiliency radiating out of people.

     Education
Environmental planning including art history of Paris
Advertising design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, FL USA where she studied painting , drawing and graphic design with extra classes of painting techniques.
She attended a workshop in Paris to study classical technique for furniture treatment and painting.
She also took classes of modeling clay which made her discover the perfect medium for her expression, and began making bronze sculptures using the lost wax process which is one of the oldest technique known by mankind.

     Today, she is the mother of three children and lives part time in Fort Lauderdale and part time in an island of the Bahamas, where she works on the making of her bronze sculptures.

The following picture is in the Little Harbor Art Gallery. You can see some of her art pieces in that gallery.

Exhibitions

Permanent	Pete's Pub & Gallery, Little Harbour, Abaco, Bahamas
November 2005	Annual Winter Open Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art
March 2005	Human Image and Self Portrait, Broward Art Guild