BIO
* I was born in St-Edouard de Lotbinière in 1952 and I live in Québec City.
* I love drawing since my childhood. It is a really pleasure to stroke the pencil on a sheet of paper and obtain all kind of shapes.
* I’ve worked in a hospital for many years; however, my true interest was always painting. I’ve spent all my leisure moments to that passion. Many years ago I’ve study arts at CEGEP Ste-Foy and Vieux-Montréal, and later drawing and oil and water color painting with Albert Rousseau, and other courses at the Musée des Beaux arts de Québec with Lucienne Cornet.
* My dream was to dedicate all my time to painting and since I’m retired from work, this dream came true.
* This exhibition at the Gault Gallery is my 11th since 2000.
My artistic appraoch : the gesture as language
* Writing and painting for are from the same impulse.</br
* I’m searching for movement on the canvas. Making traces, strokes, open shapes and looking forward to balance everything on the surface.
* I create with the energy of a primitive impetus and freedom.
* I do a gestural painting and the brush stroke on the surface must be without hesitation to give the full energy, character and power of evocation that I’m looking for.
* I work in a spontaneous way to induce all the expression it allows from the very first gesture on the canvass.
* I must have a certain feeling of emergency to be creative and follow this urge sense. In those conditions, my work is in the right direction: the primitive impulse.
* Whoever looks at my painting will at first sight feel dispersal. But as soon as the eye moves into the composition, one’s will find a path, traces and marks recalling or evoke time and memory going on.
* The color is important, but from time to time the whole surface is overwhelming and fewer colors are used. Space, movement and gesture are the core of my work.
From March 15th to May 17th 2009
The Gallery is open every day, free admission.
