Friday, December 18, 2009

Dominique que Fortin

Dominique's work is centered towards human characters. Her painting, sometimes naive, sometimes more abstract, is a sort of study of the human soul in a contemporary style, but full of the emotions of romanticism. It once depicted reality, but today, it has something of the exoticism of fairy-like dreams, where the characters are actors but also the catalysts of emotion.

Modern Art with its sensuality, its use of lines, movement and ornamentation was of great influence in her first years' pictural vision. But since the beginning, continuously exploring new horizons, Dominique has tried to free herself of her influences, using everything that she can grab to embellish her paintings with bursts of color, textures and media, making her way to find her own symbolic language.


Techniques mixtes sur bois,120cm x 150cm(disponible à la Galerie Saint-Dizier)



Today, her vision is centered towards childhood, this paradise lost for adulthood that she idealizes because she's constantly brought back to it by her own children, as she paints their unfailing joy of life, candor and imagination.


Pamela Dodds

Pamela Dodds known as printmaker also a large-scale painter, typically using vibrant colors and a bold palette. Her subject matter has been concerned with the figure, but also with the idea of narrative. Each painting features figures frozen in a moment of interaction – an interaction that has no precedent, and no discernible conclusion, as the viewer has no access to the story the painting told.



Dodds exploits the grain of her woodblocks as an important collaborator; the surface of the wood itself plays an active compositional role in this suite of prints. Having carefully selected and marked out each plank of wood so that it featured a particularly symmetrical pattern, from the inception, these works emphasize the idea of the mirror both aesthetically and conceptually.

Martin Beaupre

Adventurous, his many travels in Asia have had an undeniable influence on his artistic career, reflected in the duality of the yin and the yang often expressed in his work. Back from a trip to Japan, Martin Beaupre is always evolving and is guided by a particular interaction of art and energy that nourishes his world. His philosophy, emitting beauty and harmony, in spite of emanate from his works. The artist’s perception of the world that surrounds him results in work that inspires tranquility and gentleness, while evoking an insatiable interest in oriental culture.



His painting, whether figurative or abstract, reflects the serenity and the calm of his meditative states. His works, with their clean lines in which white predominates, initiates the spectator to looking at a work by confronting one’s own interior world.