Matis Nathalie - L’Instant d’Après

White porcelain skull, topped with a patinated black bronze butterfly.
This work explores the contrast between the fragility of the material and the permanence of metal, evoking metamorphosis, time, and memory.
Delivered with an authenticity certificate (unique piece)

Ideal for a design interior, an art collection, or a display space, this sculpture will bring character, elegance, and singularity to any environment.

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Formations
2008: Academy of Fine Arts in Charleroi: drawing section
2009: Academy of Fine Arts in Charleroi: sculpture and painting section
2010: Academy of Fine Arts in Charleroi: sculpture and painting section
2011: Academy of Fine Arts in Charleroi: ceramics section
2012: Evening course in pottery-ceramics, at the TRISKEL workshop in Genval
2013-2014: Pottery wheel courses with Bernadette Sepulchre in Graux
2013: Academy of Fine Arts in Braine-l’Alleud: ceramics section
2014: Academy of Fine Arts in Braine-l’Alleud: ceramics section
2016–2018: Immersive training within the studio of painter Michel Mercie, focusing on traditional and contemporary pictorial techniques. This training develops progressive mastery of gesture, composition, colors, and materials, while fostering personal expression and artistic sensibility.
Stages followed:

- Workshop with ceramist Geert Van Der Borght in Noduwez (enamels)
- Painting and sculpture workshop with artist Juan Kiti at Château d’Hannut
- Raku workshop with Francoise Giotto
- Ceramics workshop with Sarah Bourlard in Waterloo
- Porcelain workshop at the Porcepolis studio in Brussels
- Raku workshop at the Comtporium de la céramique studio in Liège
- Molding workshop with Paolo Lori
- Bronze forging workshop with Jean Delcourt in Frasnes-lez-Gosselies
Exhibitions:
2013
- BLACK Expo at Château d’Hannut
- Discovery Expo at the Kiti Juan workshop in Bruges
- Expo ‘César et Anais’ International POP-UP ART Gallery in Diegem
2014
- Festival des Arts Bonsvillersois
- Expo at Tour de Flandres
- Expo at Art Pero gallery in Crupet
- Expo: Art Frais at the Étangs de la vieille Ferme in Herve
- Expo: La sensualité pour la Spirale in Natoye
2015
- Moncell’Art Expo at Château de Monceau
- Expo at Galerie Delvaux at the Novotel-Namur
- Participation in the St Hubert Arts and Crafts Show
2016
- Art’bre Gallery Exhibition “Transparence” (Arbre-Profondeville)
- Artisanart Exhibition (Brussels) – “Mind and Matter” European
- Arts and Crafts Convention Expo
- Art Gallery Exhibition (Crupet)
2020
Expo at San Sebastian de los Reyes gallery, Madrid
Expo – sale, Atelier Pottery, Madrid
Expo – sale, Lumbre y Barro, Madrid
2021
Expo – sale Painting Jaloea Art Gallery, Alicante
Expo – sale Vearte Galeria, Alicante
2025
- I created my image for Falen Art to build a unique, modern, and elegant visual identity capable of representing my artistic work and values.
After studies in graphic design in Namur and a strong taste for travel and cultural diversity, Natalie Matis’s vocation for porcelain began in China during a journey.
Upon returning to Belgium, she joined the Porcepolis workshop in Brussels, where she deepened her particular taste for porcelain; she loves this material for its whiteness, its nobility, its translucence, its intimacy with glaze, and its softness.
She offers a range of decorative objects with a minimalist design.
For several years, Nathalie Matis has perfected her study of ceramics in various workshops and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braine l’Alleud with ceramist Geert van Der Borght.
Passionate about ceramics, she explores various techniques autodidactically and has a marked fascination with raku, a mysterious meeting of mastery and randomness, a fragile adventure between the ceramicist’s dream and metamorphosis.