French Artist Nathalie Launay Wins Silver Awards at AWA-2025 and SV-2025

French artist Nathalie Launay, a trained scientist and abstract painter based in Andorra, has received a Silver Diploma from the Artist World Award (AWA)-2025 and a Silver Medal from the Stella Virtuosa (SV)-2025. The international prizes, organised by the Acadèmia Internacional d’Arts Contemporànies, recognised the quality of her submitted works.

A jury selected three of Launay’s pieces for the competition, with her painting *Regression* taking top honours in the professional painting category. The awards ceremony took place at the private Untitled gallery in Andorra, led by Marta Llompart. Irina Rybalchenko, an honorary member of the academy and its official representative in Andorra, presented the diploma and medal.

Launay, who now lives and works in the principality, shifted her career after more than 15 years studying rare neurological diseases. She featured on the cover of *Andorra Style* magazine last June. Her art draws directly from her scientific background, blending rigorous data on genetics and organic structures with intuitive abstraction. Everyday surroundings also inform her work, which uses diverse techniques and supports to reveal hidden patterns in living systems—architectures, codes, and intimate dynamics rendered visible through colour and form.

“Art and science are complementary paths,” Launay said. “Both aim to make the invisible visible, explore the world’s mysteries, and pose fundamental questions about the human condition.”