Mantha Art

Valérie Mantha is a contemporary abstract painter based in Sainte-Flore, Quebec, Canada. Her visual language is recognizable at first glance: on a rich painted surface built through layering, pencil lines trace, delineate, and reveal. This dialogue between painting and line — between the free gesture and precision — has become the signature of her entire body of work, both expressive and structured.
The pencil line was born from the constraints of daily life — it was accessible, silent, immediate. It stayed because it carries everything paint alone does not say: structure, rhythm, and the tension between what is shown and what is held back.
Her paintings develop through successive layers of acrylic, ink, and pencil on gallery-wrapped canvas. Opaque passages meet transparent veils, creating depth through both addition and removal. This language unfolds across series. Each series carries its own identity — palette, density, light — and ranges from small to large format. From one series to the next, the line remains. It is the thread that connects everything.
Originally from Montreal, Valérie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from HEC Montréal and took courses in architectural design at the Université de Montréal. She began ...

- Bachelor of Business Administration, HEC Montréal
Architectural Design courses, Université de Montréal (2001)
- Collegiate Diploma in Social Sciences, Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (1996)
- Watercolour workshop, Devon Griffiths, La Factrie 70 (2023)

Solo
- Linéa, Galerie Sainte-Fl'Art, Sainte-Flore, QC (November 2025 – January 2026)

Group
- Collection, Galerie Sainte-Fl'Art, Sainte-Flore, QC (November 2025 – January 2026)
- Art d'ici, Gallea Exhibition, Hôtel de l'ITHQ, Montreal, QC (May 2023 – May 2024)
- Gallea Exhibition, Hôtel Bonaventure, Montreal, QC (May – November 2022)
- CAMAC Expo, Centre d'art de Montréal, QC (September 2021)
- Festival des arts de Griffintown, Centre d'art de Montréal, QC (August – September 2021)
- Gallea Exhibition, Cabinet d'avocats Aruda Teixeira, Montreal, QC (March – May 2021)