Six months since my last exhibition in October 2022! I invite you to view this short video to revisit LEGATO, my first series of paintings inspired by memory and absence. I have since been working on new paintings around that same theme always searching to render the essential of an emotion through faces and figures. New works will soon be posted on my website gallery and I am planning to have an Open Studio Event in the Fall. Stay tune!
I am a Canadian expressive figurative painter originally from Quebec City. I studied drawing and painting at the Visual Art Centre in Montreal and over the years followed numerous workshops with local and international artists. I added encaustic image transfers to my practice and started doing clay sculptures during stays in Mexico.
The faces and figures I paint are vectors to blurred impressions, memories and feelings I aim at rendering in an imagined world. Gestural mark-making and an intuitive sense of colour result in painterly surfaces where fragile beings take form in a mode of expressive figuration.
As I continue working with this series I discover new ways of expressing occurrences of absence that never cease to touch me.
I work daily in my studio in Montreal where I live, except during summer months where I paint in Vermont in the garage I transformed into an open air studio.