Born in Montreal in 1984, I graduated from Concordia University with distinction in studio art with a minor in ceramics. I then migrated to France to study at HEAD in Geneva where I obtained the diploma in 2007. I grew up in Montreal, a city that I would describe as eclectic where we advocate simplicity, efficiency and the idea that everything can be possible, which will have a profound impact on me. I like to say that I am 1/8 Iroquois Native… I believe that I still keep an intuitive and spiritual trace of it in an unconscious transgenerational transmission.
My artistic journey is marked by a long pause of introspection on the meaning of painting today, my added value in society as an artist and what would be a representative Canadian Artwork. Although I have been painting since the age of 12, I withdrew from the art world for 8 years to teach and care for our 4 children. Then, with confinement and the shocks of life, resuming painting became a meaningful necessity.
Having a very arborescent system of thinking, probably exacerbated by Quebec culture that uses words in a highly imaginative and metaphorical way. I am very sensitive to the fertile relationship between elements in all forms of communication, whether oral or visual. I believe that words have a history and a powerful imprint… but images have the power to be even more universal and intuitive.
Beyond ideas and concepts, feelings expressed, constructed or deconstructed forms, perspectives, patterns and symbols, compositions, light, volumes and colors that are an integral part of an art work throughout history of art. I attach great importance to the texture and materiality of the elements in my paintings.
In a modeled computer-generated image, texture is the superficiality of the forms that give a real aspect to things.This ambivalence deeply challenges me. It is the antithesis of the search for reality in this life made of accumulation of superficial matter where we live connected to the virtual. I like to think that I paint materiality with light and color, in response to our way of living… as a butterfly wingbeat.
Differentiated through a mastered coexistence between simplicity and complexity, my painting aims to transcribe a kind of hymn to life and the richness of its strange and magical connections. I reconstruct spaces made of artificial realism with flamboyant and contrasting colors. I play with changing the perspective of our gaze to create a new landscape imbued with mystery and poetry that creates improbable connections of ideas between things. I try to convey an optimistic vibe through my reflections and the richness of my cultures. Life, the living, and the connections between things are what drive me deep down.
In the end, I try to paint what really matter… the living… through life embodied in matter.