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Self-taught French artist, Nicole Gumez aka ZEM was born in May 1954 (France). Since childhood, she has been painting, drawing and painting the scenes or landscapes that inspire her, mainly marine paintings that she has worked on in watercolour before becoming familiar with acrylic and oil paintings. Her artistic expression, initially figurative, is oriented towards sketching, where the spontaneity of the line marks her drawings of gesture and perspective, before turning to abstraction. Cultivating facial expressions of Modigliani and Toulouse-Lautrec, the technique of pointillists such as Seurat or Signac or optical games of Vasarely, it is the discovery of Aboriginal art at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris that marks a turning point in the development of a very personal style. Today, her compositions with chamarred colors are declined around his favorite themes, the Aboriginal Art, the Native American Art, and especially the symbolism of the Labyrinth.