Artists inspired by Claude Monet: contemporary painters to discover

There is something timeless in Claude Monet’s work. More than a style or a technique, it is, in fact, a way of inhabiting vision: capturing light before it changes, observing water as a shifting surface of reality, and, above all, painting not things themselves, but their vibration.

Moreover, more than a century after his death, this sensitivity continues to flow through contemporary painting. Indeed, some artists explicitly claim Monet’s legacy, while others, in a more intuitive way, extend his attention to colour, atmosphere, and the transformations of landscapes.

Thus, here are seven contemporary artists available on Artsper whose work, each in its own way, engages in a dialogue with the world of the Impressionist master.

1. Georges R. Quinio

A former student of the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, Georges R. Quinio lived a travelling life before returning to settle in Saint Florent, in Corsica, the land of his childhood. It is there that he developed the essence of his pictorial language, namely a painting shaped by Mediterranean light.

Moreover, working mainly with a palette knife, Quinio builds his landscapes through thick and vibrant strokes. In addition, his compositions, sometimes marked by pointillist touches, favour less a precise description of the subject than the luminous sensation it conveys.

Similarly, like Monet with the Norman cliffs or the landscapes of the Seine, Quinio turns the landscape into a field of atmospheric experimentation. As a result, in his work, Corsica becomes a space of perception, almost a pretext for studying light.

Georg R.Quinio, Un Soir de Printemps, 1991 – Painting available on Arstper.com

2. Amita Dand

The journey of Amita Dand sheds light on her work as much as her painting itself. Trained as an engineer, she left the corporate world in 2010 to devote herself entirely to artistic creation, driven by an open admiration for Claude Monet.

Her favourite subjects water lilies, lotuses, and ponds immediately evoke the world of the Water Lilies. Yet rather than direct quotation, her work offers a sensitive translation of this fascination with reflections and shifting surfaces.

Originally from Hubli in India, Dand draws on the aquatic landscapes of her childhood as emotional material, which she transforms through fluid layers of colour and instinctive gestures. In her work, water becomes an ambiguous space where reality and imagination merge.

Her closeness to Monet lies less in subject matter than in a pursuit of immersive, almost meditative painting.

Amita Dang, A Thousand Journeys| Water lilies art, 2023 – Painting available on Artsper.com

3. Simon Kozhin

Trained at the Ilya Glazunov Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow, Simon Kozhin belongs to the tradition of contemporary Russian realism. Yet certain aspects of his work directly echo Impressionist explorations.

His nocturnal views Moscow under snow, illuminated Saint Petersburg, or reflections of London on the Thames show a particular sensitivity to atmospheric effects and variations in artificial light.

The comparison with Monet emerges especially in the way he treats the city as a luminous phenomenon rather than an architectural setting. As in the French painter’s London series, fog, reflections, and light become the true subjects of the painting.

Simon Kozhin, February in Kuzminki. The Churilikha River, 2022 – Painting availlable on Artsper.com

4. Danièle Badet

A physician for more than thirty years, Danièle Badet developed her painting practice alongside her professional career before turning it into a more personal space of exploration.

Her work gradually moved away from strict figuration to explore the relationships between water, light, and reflection. In her paintings, the boundary between sky and water seems to dissolve, producing images that come close to abstraction.

This approach echoes certain late explorations by Monet in the large Water Lilies panels, where the pond gradually fades into a floating, almost mental space.

In Badet’s work, painting becomes less a representation of landscape than an experience of contemplation.

Daniel Badet, Vers le jardin d’Eden série parcs et jardins, 2020 – Painting available on Artsper.com

5. Gaëlle Wagner

Gaëlle Wagner explicitly claims her admiration for Monet, even going so far as to title one of her works We Are All Monet. However, her practice belongs more to a contemporary and expressive reinterpretation of Impressionism than to its direct continuation.

Moreover, trained at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts and later at ESAD in Orléans, she develops a gestural painting in which colour and movement structure the pictorial space. In addition, acrylic, spray paint, and collage: mediums overlap in often monumental compositions.

While Monet’s influence appears in her instinctive relationship to colour and light, Wagner nevertheless moves away from landscape to explore a more energetic abstraction, at times close to Abstract Expressionism.

As a result, her work shows how the Impressionist legacy can be transformed today into a fully contemporary visual language.

Gaëlle Wagner, Abstraction Concrète 226, 2025 – Painting available on Artsper.com

6. Patrick Marie

Self-taught, Patrick Marie is a French landscape painter who revisits Neo-Impressionist languages with a highly personal style. He works mainly on the coasts of Brittany and Normandy, as well as on views of Paris, which he treats as spaces of light rather than purely descriptive subjects.

Moreover, his painting is based on a sensitive approach to landscape, summed up in his own words: “I paint what I feel, not what I see.” In this respect, this orientation brings him close to an Impressionist tradition in which perception takes precedence over faithful representation.

As a result, his works explore atmospheric variations, effects of mist, reflections on water, and the transformations of light across maritime and urban landscapes. In this pursuit, an indirect dialogue can be established with Claude Monet, particularly in his treatment of the Normandy coast, the Seine, or harbour scenes, where the motif becomes a pretext for studying changes in light.

Patrick Marie, La Manneporte – Côte normande, 2019 – Painting available on Artsper.com

7. Andrii Chebotaru 

Born in Sevastopol into an artistic family and trained at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, Andrii Chebotaru claims the influence of several major European painters, among whom Monet holds an important place.

His painting is characterized by an intense palette, expressive brushstrokes, and a constant attention to light effects. Moreover, landscapes and still lifes become spaces of color vibration rather than faithful representations of reality.

At times close to Pointillism, his work reinterprets certain Impressionist principles in a more contemporary and more contrasted style of painting. In addition, for Chebotaru as for Monet, impression is not only a visual effect: it becomes a way of translating the sensory experience of the world.

Andrii Chebotaru, First Rays, 2024 – Painting available on Arstper.com

Conclusion

What connects these artists to Monet is not only aesthetic. None reproduces Impressionism, but they all share an attention to what escapes: changing light, reflections, atmospheres, unstable moments.

Monet’s legacy lies in the idea that painting is about translating the way the world appears and transforms.