Pm Artiste (Petra Moons) shares my appreciation for art and storytelling. As an artist with a rich cultural background and a passion for creative expression, she not only creates meaningful work but also supports artists and creators across the world through all of my independent outreaches.
Her encouragement and dedication align with my mission to assist creators in their growth. I am truly grateful for her guidance, assistance, and steadfast support. Petra Moons is a Dutch-Martinique artist with roots from the old harbor town of Den Haag (‘s-Gravenhage) in the Netherlands. Already as a child, she astonished friends, family, and her environment at school, drawing very mature comic strips with humorous and social expression.
Before her actual artistic painting education, she already made fashion drawings for some fashion companies in Belgium and France. Artistic education in painting: Academie for Fine Arts in Antwerp Klassieke Academie voor Schilderkunst Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten She also studied theater at the: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art During this time, she worked for advertising agencies as an advertising illustrator, for newspapers as a satire draftsman, and financed her studies in this way and with other commissioned works. She now lives since several years in Cannes, southern France.
The impressions of this picturesque landscape and of the French “Savoir vivre” are also found in many of her works. Her painterly expression is very inspired by the impressionistic works of the old master Renoir. During her various creative phases, she has developed her own style: corpulent women as a mirror of society. In the meantime, she also paints some other art styles, even if the humorous style will always be the style that she created... and she is the only one who paints this way.
Exhibitions: 1991 / May Exhibition, France, Paris, Hotel „Le Bristol Paris“ 1995 / June Foyer Exhibition, Belgium, Brussels „Marriot Hotel Grand Place“ 1998 / Feb-Sept Belgium, Ostend „BNP Paribas“ permanent exhibition 2000 / Jan-July Permanent Exhibition, France, Avignon „Hôtel La Mirande“ 2004 / March Exhibition in France, Nice „Mairie“ 2003-2007 Permanent Exhibitions in Martinique Since 2015 Cannes „Galerie Signatures“ 22.09.-25.09.2016 Art Exhibition in Cannes „Artistes du Monde“ 2017 / Feb.-July Exhibition in Cannes „Restaurant L’Oasis“ (2-star Michelin Guide)
I love Petra Moon’s paintings of women, capturing their inner animal—each frozen in a glance, not direct, but.. eye contact, something deeper. A portal. A moment suspended in time. The way they look back at the viewer—piercing, almost real, not just through paint, but through a reflection of sight.
I can hear it now—a howl, the river flowing, the trees creaking in the wind, bare yet alive, whispering their presence. I see it moving, shifting, breathing. But in a blink—it is static once more.
If only I could show her what I see through her portal, her lens, her perspective—to show her what her creation has given me.
-Thank You Petra!
The static turned dynamic.
The silent found a voice.
What was frozen in time—
now sings, now moves, now breathes.
A painting that could not speak now echoes.
A glance that could not shift now lingers.
A moment once trapped now flows,
alive in sound, alive in motion,
a portal between worlds.
A painting, created by hand
A picture, captured in time
A digital artist, bringing motion
A composer, giving it voice
No AI—artists, creating
Adeptus Vita
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