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ABOUT MARIE-CLAUDE GOULET 

She paints fanciful birds and animals, and also women, all created directly from her imagination. Marie-Claude Goulet is a self-taught canadian artist who began her artistic journey a few years ago, at the age of 49, when the sudden onset of persistent migraines lead her to reach for a paint brush.  Until then, she had been a lawyer, practicing her profession for over 25 years.

As a child and as a young adult, she received many prizes for her writing abilities, and she loved inventing children's tales, featuring animals.  It was through painting that she reconnected with her creative nature.  She now tells stories through the unique and different personalities of her distinctive creatures, who star in her artworks.

She was quickly represented by an art gallery in her hometown, Rimouski (QC, CAN), and soon after, in Galerie Québec Art art gallery, in the heart of Old Quebec, alongside established Canadian artists.   Her work is also exhibited in Old Montreal, at beautiful Le Luxart art gallery.  Her artworks are part of private collections across North America and her art is also making its way through Europe.  Marie-Claude Goulet already has a few solo exhibitions to her credit.
 

ARTIST STATEMENT - GOULET

From the sky to the bottom of the sea, the animal world has always inspired me with fantastic stories.  Coming from my imagination, the animals that I paint are not limited by normality. They symbolize, for me, the acceptance of difference and individuality, and the freedom that resides in each mind. It is important for me that my artworks convey messages or emotions, or show mere joy or simple moments of intimacy. 

My works are made in a joyous spirit, and my technical approach is stimulated by discovery and openness. I let the medium speak, without always wanting to control it, thus giving free rein to the imperfection, to the freedom of the work, and to my own evolution as an artist. 

I use acrylic with mixed techniques, and I paint in a gestural, expressive way.  To better create an atmosphere or define a character trait, I play with textures, colors, gold, silver and aluminium leaves. Mortar, lava, copper, fabric or collage can also land in some of my works, obeying the emotion and the inspiration that animate me.

My role is to reveal the personality of my creatures but my goal is ultimately for them to comfort, to amuse, and to touch. In that way, I believe that my art can have a positive, soothing effect on others, like it certainly has on me. 

Life challenges me with my severe migraines. But welcoming art in my life has been liberating, it has helped me to adapt, and with all the love around me, it has guided me to go back to my essence, to this personal place within me, that is my home.  That is probably why my animals are not only shown in a common background, but rather in a place, an atmosphere, that they certainly could call home themselves.

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ABOUT DESO 

His name is Émile Desaulniers, but he expresses his creativity under the name DESO.  He is 22  years old, and a very promising Canadian artist. 

He developed his own technique and style, painting mostly with spray paint, and using different mediums, for a surprising and refreshing textured result.  He paints lively cities, crowded with buildings, each one more colorful and fanciful than the others.  His buildings with asymmetrical forms are integrated into a static but dynamic composition, and from which emerges a city that seems bustling with life.  

DESO's beautiful artwork Chambre avec vue, was selected among the 100 semi-finalists of the juried international ARTBOX PROJECTS, ZURICH 1.0, at the Swiss art Expo, 2019.   In addition, in the spring of 2020, Deso won "L'art de la Relève" competition, organized by Galerie Québec Art, and he is now represented by this renowned art gallery situated in the heart of Old Quebec city.

ARTIST STATEMENT -DESO

My technique

Having first started to paint with traditional acrylic, I quickly turned to spray paint that I superpose with other aerosol mediums, and sometimes with latex paint, thus obtaining interesting and various reactions from the material.  Although my workshop is very well-stocked, I paint with what I have on hand, or rather, what I find most practical: my hands, a knife, a cotton-rod, a screwdriver, a ruler. 

I add layers of acrylic, latex or aerosol, then I scratch, sculpt, draw, thus creating life in the inhabited buildings.  I often add bold pastel, to accentuate the borders of the buildings, soiled by urban dust.   

Cities full of action to imagine, to discover, to live

My cities are full of life, but it is the buildings that act like stars, at least, at first glance. However, by examining more closely, silhouettes or shapes can be seen by the window tiles, and let us imagine various scenes: a couple kissing, a voyeur, a child toy, a crime in the process of being committed.  The attentive look also allows to discover tags, hidden letters (D-E-S-O), known symbols.  

Then there's the third degree.  The main object of my works -the city- is often seen through a window, thus placing the spectator as an actor of the canvas, in the heart of the city.  The gaze is therefore active and passive: absorbed in the canvas, while acting as an observer of the life that takes place there by his window, and then, through the windows of the buildings. 

I create modern and joyful works, with a whimsical comic-book vibe.  I experiment, invent, shape.