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 | Karel Aelterman |
As a artist-craftsman, Karel attempts to convey a spark of his passion for wood. Using both indigenous materials and exotic woods, his righteous and honest creations are the result of a conscious awareness of the material and of conceptual research for the simplicity and elegance of design found in his work, thereby rendering the intrinsic beauty of the wood as much as possible.
 | Monique Beauchamp |
A Ripon native, she discovers painting in 1983. By attending symposiums and workshops, she is constantly learning new mediums and exploring new means with passion. Recently, she combines acrylic with epoxy on particle board. The harmony of the colors and the composition of her work join together to answer the essential element of her life: positive energy.
 | Nicole Lebeau |
Nicole Lebeau has been interested in the arts since childhood. She would fill pages of drawings and sketches. Since1990, at retirement, she is entirely dedicated to her art following a career that led her all over the world. Without roads, without borders, Nicole Lebeau improvises her becoming. Her heart sings when her brushes convey every form of her imagination.
 | Jean Pierre Allaire |
For more than fifteen years, Jean-Pierre Allaire has not only worked at CBC in film editing but also in the graphic arts. In 2004, he launches his career as an artist of photography. The serene personality of Jean-Pierre leads him to seek and observe the unusual, the hidden in nature. Nature’s simplicity and beauty found in all seasons, nourishes the artists’ passion to capture these discoveries and to share them by photography. Jean-Pierre knows how to capture the purest elements in nature. He is Vice-chair of Coloris sur la Baie, a non profit organization vowed to the development of art in the Clarence-Rockland region and to the support of associations in need.
 | Michèle LeCourtois |
Michèle LeCourtois obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with a minor in Illustration from the University of Québec as well as a Bachelor of Education specializing in the visual arts from the University of Ottawa. Over the years, she has studied art at Algonquin College and has been mentored by talented artists from Quebec and California. She has been teaching art since 2005 and has juried group art exhibits on many occasions. Her work has been shown in Ottawa, Gatineau, Montebello and Montpellier. During the summer months, she paints in her studio which is located on the picturesque Schryer Lake in Montpellier, Québec. The remainder of the year, she works in her studio in Gatineau. Both studios are open to the public by appointment.
www.michelelecourtois.com
 | Linda Bergeron Baril |
This self-taught artist enjoys oil painting especially with the use of knives and spatulas. Member of the artists association of Pontiac and the Aylmer Arts Council, Linda Bergeron Baril was awarded for her work entitled “Albert” in 2003 by “L’Art dans l’Outaouais”. Her paintings are shown in art galleries in Quebec City and in Old Montreal. Her work is the reflection of various cultures having lived in Quebec, Ontario, Germany and France. Share her emotions by viewing her painting.
Official website www.lindabbaril.net
 | Gilles Lortie |
Born in 1945 in Ottawa, Gilles Lortie’s passion for art and innovation dissociated him from others at a tender age. In childhood, he was fascinated by wood work and enjoyed repairing all that was no longer working. Singing was also very much part of his life, with his first performance on television at the age of 12. Gilles Lortie painted his first artwork in 1971 and has since discovered the range of colors and forms. Looking always to be different, he prefers the form of hexagones which he degrades with pronounced textures. The artist participated in many individual and collective art exhibits such as Art en Outaouais where he received the first prize. Surrealism is predominant in his artwork.
 | Irène Lumineau |
Fascinated by youth illustrations, Irène is a student in graphics. French in origin, she loves to be uprooted in order to better root elsewhere. She has lived 7 months in India which influences her choice of colors in her work. She uses a wide range of materials, bringing her paintings alive. Irène preserves a style in constant mutation.
Official website www.flickr.com/photos/irenegalerie/
 | Sophie Maisonneuve |
Born in Hull on April 20, 1971, Sophie Maisonneuve has long been drawn to the visual arts. In high school, she demonstrated great talent for spatial visualization. For several years, she painted on wood and ceramic.
In 2000, she decided to devote herself to painting. For several years, the idea of painting had obsessed her, but she hesitated to try a form of expression so different from everything she had previously tried. She enrolled in an apprenticeship session and it was love at first sight! Acrylic and oil on canvas became her preferred media.
Sophie is characterized by an immense ability to explore new avenues of expression with felicitous results and emerge from them bearing treasures. From her first tentative brushstrokes under the guidance of the Vogue painting studio, she has constantly sought to perfect her personal style and expand her technical knowledge.
 | Solange Nourry |
Solange Nourry lives in the Outaouais region for now more than thirty years. She has chosen to express her art by watercolors (past 7 years) and glass (past 20 years). The common denominator of these mediums is transparency - her source of inspiration. In 2003, she organized Art de l'Ordinaire, a group of artists and craftsmen from Cantley. She participates to collective exhibitions since 2003.
Official website http://www.artdelordinaire.com/
 | Maureen O'Neill |
Maureen O'Neill is an artist with an international reputation. Her work is found in many collections, for example three of her paintings are in the permanent collection of the Canadian Ambassador to Latvia, and are currently on show in Riga in that country. throughout the British Isles, Ireland and Europe, notably in the Czech Republic; across Canada and the United States; and in Central and South America; a little in Africa. A painting by this artist was featured in a review in the French newspaper Le Droit in the summer of 2007. She shows regularly with the City of Ottawa and at private galleries in Ottawa: her most recent exhibitions there were at The Mud Oven on Bank St.(solo) and The Cube Gallery (group). She showed two paintings at a juried exhibition at Espace Pierre Debain in Aylmer in April 2008; and two are available for rent or sale at Artscourt, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa. One large work was accepted for the Summer Solstice Show at Centre d'Exposition l'Imagier in Aylmer for the summer of 2008. Three of her paintings are in the permanent collection of the Canadian Ambassador to Latvia, and are currently on show in Riga in that country. Maureen O'Neill was born in Ottawa and now lives in the Aylmer sector of Gatineau, Quebec. She teaches painting in both cities. She taught two intensive courses in acrylic painting in July 2008, and took part in a painting trip to the South of France in August 2008, where she gave workshops and advice in painting technique. Her studio is in a heritage home in Aylmer. Much of her work is available there for viewing and purchase.
Website http://www.maureenoneill.ca
 | Josée Prud'homme |
Born in Gatineau, Josée Prud’homme has been a philosophy teacher for 18 years. Five years ago, she discovered calligraphy. In 2008, she crossed the bridge and started to paint figurative paintings using watercolor and, more recently, acrylic. Portrait painting became for her real passion.
 | Thérèse André |
Born in Belgium, Therese Andre arrives alone in Canada in 1964. She is amazed by the vastness of the country, the colors of nature through the seasons, the flaming sunsets, lakes and countless rivers, the omnipresent light, and the people so dynamic and creative.
For 30 years, Teresa taught at secondary and primary, retired with her husband, Armand Ducharme, it is a Bed and Breakfast for 13 years, in their log house in Luskville. Physically active, Therese follows many during aerobics, yoga, of homeopathy, herbal, ..... The taste of serving others leads to become reflexologist.
She has always painted for pleasure and that of others. For two years, she puts her passion into the limelight.
 | Louise Paradis |
Louise Paradis has a diverse training: music, visual arts and French literature. She has won many literature prizes and has participated to several poetry recitals. She has published collective and individual compendiums including a book on art, Les Archipels de l'âme, published in 1997. In 1999, the poet has explored other means of expression which lead her to the creation of poetry-objects. Since, she has participated to several exhibits, her poetry-objects artwork are well liked by the public.
 | Monique Bourgeois Levesque |
For Monique Lévesque, learning haiku and digital photography has been a revelation. In the summer 2005, she published a compendium of haïku photographs entitled Écrin which she also produced on DVD in the fall of 2006. Her haïku photographs are regularly published in local newspapers, in the Anthologie du poème Bref, in France’s dossiers d’aquitaine (2005) and in the Haïkaï’s literary review (February 2007). She also won three photography contests.
 | Annie Marcheterre |
Born in Rimouski in 1963, it’s by drawing and painting that Annie Marcheterre succeeds in accurately transmitting her emotions, exorcising her emotions of the moment. The rest of the time, her path is more thoughtout; her research is mostly nourished by her appeal to the logic, purity and elegance of mathematics. Annie Marcheterre thus researches forms, contrasts and fragments of her imagination which together form a unique, auto-sufficient, vibrant energy.
 | Monique Renaud |
Born in St-Henri-de-Taillon, Lac St-Jean, PQ, I made a teaching career both in elementary and High school. First in Saguenay, in Lac St-Jean, on the Côte-Nord, then in Quebec city, Montreal and lastly, in Haute-Gatineau.
In the sixties, I took part in art summer camps, In Saguenay. In group creation workshops, I studied art and acquiered notions of colourism.
Followed a long period where work and family took all of my time and care. Then, in the eighties, in Haute-Gatineau, I attended many art workshops led by Ms. Sylvie Grégoire, art painter.
Only years later I experimented watercolour painting as an artistic expression means. For a few years, I worked with Ms. Rita Rodrigue, a well-known Outaouais artist, acknowledged in her region, in Canada and in foreign countries. Her workshops based on creativity gave me the impulse to explore a new aspect of art.
When I retired from teaching, watercolour became of greater importance in my life. Newly freed time could be devoted to training. With Ms. Claire Labrosse, a watercolour artist from Gatineau , I went back to basis. Meeting and working with other watercolour artists, I gradually devoted myself to this art.
 | Monique Rouleau |
Monika has been in the field of creation for the past 35 years. Painting is her greatest happiness; her preferred medium are oils and acrylics.
Monika particularly enjoys painting with earth tones and depicts natural settings with transcending lighting on the subjects. She is touched by the full bloom of colors found in nature, in all her beauty. Some of her work may be found in Labrador and the Netherlands.
Site web http://www.monikarouleau.com
 | Claire Andrée Bourgeois |
Born in Hull (Gatineau, Quebec), I have always been interested in the visual arts. I have a graphic arts degree from Algonquin College and I have taken many visual arts courses at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. I enjoy imagining new forms, illustrating fleeting or immaterial things. My body of work represents my personal mean of expression. They transmit my emotions and my memories.
 | Gérard Martineau |
Hi my name is Gérard and photography has always played an important role in my life. I first began as an amateur and soon found myself working as a professional. Since the camera and the computer have been merged together, it has offered an immense possibility for unique photography. I look upon the future world of pictures with a great deal of expectation.
Email: studioGphoto@videotron.ca
 | Garry Bowes |
Following a career in research, at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Garry has devoted thirteen years to wood art. Internationally recognized in the woodturning community, and a member of the American Association of Woodturners, his artistic creations have earned many awards and have been featured on TV and on catalogue covers. Garry’s work is held by private, and institutional collectors, throughout North America.
Official website www.artisticwoodturning.ca
 | Louise Monnin-Owens |
Born in Val-Tétreau in the Outaouais region, Louise Monnin-Owens spent her childhood near the river, inspired by nature. Already very young, she ardently wanted to paint, but it is only as an adult that her dream came true. In 1997, she registers for a watercolour class and to her great surprise, her paintbrush glides, dances and creates different styles. She now works with many media and each painting has it’s own story.
 | Line Bouchard |
Line was born in Mont-Joli, near the Saint-Laurence Seaway in the province of Québec, Canada.
Line's artistic journey began in 1985. The medium used, which was watercolour, allowed her to express spontaneity and vitality as well as gentleness and tenderness.
Since 1999, Line's passion has veered towards oriental painting and calligraphy. As a student in the sumi-e class, at the Ottawa School of Art, she learned to handle the oriental brush, using breath, rhythm and body movements.
Using black or color ink, she sketches, using a minimum of strokes to reveal the essence of the subject.
Official website http://www.allvisualarts.com/linebouchard
 | Carole Brazeau |
Carole Brazeau is a professional sculptor of realistic, highly detailed and life-like sculptures that embody a sense of spirit in each piece that she creates. In her early years, drawing and painting were outlets for her creativity, but even as a young artist, she was drawn to the solid form – soapstone. Carole always had a love of nature in her homeland and dreamed of devoting her life to carving. For Carole, there is a unique sense of attraction, difficult to name or qualify, to these enchanted carvings that are as surreal as they are real. Through a contrast of roughly finished stone with highly polished areas, she draws from it supple forms, allowing the naturally evolving texture and tones of the stone to suggest the beauty of each piece beneath the surface.
Website http://www.goldenpawdesigns.com
 | Lisa Brunetta |
Lisa adores combining language and visuals to make social commentary with many layers of meaning. Her art often incorporates recycled or recuperated materials, an extension of her personal recycling practices.
Website http://www.lbrunetta.ca
 | Louise Cormier |
Louise started painting using oil and more recently, moved to acrylic and mix medium. To better tame color, in the years 2000, she followed a series of courses at the Ottawa School of Art. Her work has evolved from figurative to abstract in order to go behind and over the image in search of the emotion. Her paintings tell stories of the world and of people. Voila the essential of her work!
 | Lise Côté |
Combining the art of stained glass and fused glass, this collection is quite original. Each jewel is in itself a work of art. Artist in stained glass, I have created these unique pieces, highlighted by touches of abstract figures, which capture the essence of translucency and opacity and offer an open space to unbound creativity.
Website http://www.verretigo.ca
 | Louis Couture |
Born in Gatineau, I studied visual and graphic arts at the Université du Québec (UQO) in the early 1980s.
Painting, the method that makes us a medium of our time, still fascinates me just as much. As such, in my eyes, the acrylic medium and the canvas have remained creative tools with inexhaustible potential. For the last few years, my paintings have been semi-figurative, giving way to patches of colour and rough sketches, while allowing space for strokes and lines.
 | Denise Dowdy |
Emotion informs and inspires Denise's art. She is drawn to texture and the feelings conveyed by the combination of different textures and colors put together. Each stroke, each drip conveys a message - a mood. As she paints, she often pauses and stands back - allowing the painting to speak to her and tell her its needs. The process starts by creating a conversation between the piece and herself, which becomes a forceful discussion between her art, herself, and in the end, the viewer. Conveying our often different, points of view.
 | Marie Paquette |
Marie Paquette is a multidisplinary artist. She draws since childhood and paints for the past thirty years. Portraiture has always been her preferred subject and for the past few years, she paints magical landscapes. What she prefers are her ‘’tapisseries’’, her artwork of large dimensions. She creates he own colors by mixing pigments and oil.
 | Françoise Brazeau Ferguson |
I began painting seriously in the seventies. From 1977 to 1984, I owned and managed a framing studio in Gatineau, QC, where I sold picture frames and art supplies, moderated workshops and organized art exhibitions. During those years I participated in numerous exhibitions and sold many paintings. In 1984, feeling a need for a change in lifestyle, I sold my business to pursue a career at a medico-legal association. Now retired, I have resumed my visual art endeavours, painting regularly either on location or in my studio. Oil is my preferred medium, landscapes and portraits my favourite subjects. I participate in various workshops and "paint-outs" and I am currently a member of several artistic associations.
 | Rémi Girard |
Rémi Girard was born in Alma, Lac St-Jean. He is the creator of a new medium, the Phytrail which he holds a certificate of registration of trademarks. Such bonding combines the transparency of glass or plastic plant world in a potpourri of colors and shapes. Nuances, contrast and brightness, all contribute to this extension of nature. Rémi Girard presents his works in several exhibitions and festivals in the Gatineau region and different regions of Quebec.
In January 2005, he exhibited with the C.A.P.S.Q. Museum of Tunis in the Palace Kheireddine in Tunisia in September, at the Cultural Center of Coimbra, Portugal.
 | Diane Goyette |
Born in Ste-Christine, Diane Goyette spent the major part of her adult life in the Laurentians. In the beginning, she painted under the influence of the Old Masters. She draws her inspiration from songs. Song words and music provoke in her intense emotions she wishes to share with others.
The subjects of her paintings are always full of maining and reach the heart of art lovers be evoking their past. Along the years, she took part in many symposiums and art exhibitions. She also won many jury and public choice awards. She is currently a member of several artistic associations.
 | Claire Guérette |
From Hull, Claire has an undergraduate degree in arts and designs (UQO) and has exhibited in many collective exhibits and trade shows. Winner of the 2007 Public Choice Award of the 'Pierre qui roule' symposium held in Petite-Nation. As an artist of felt, she adapts the techniques of felt in a contemporary way. Artist and complete craftsman, she enjoys the medium, a heritage symbol. She works in a way to remain in contact with the environment as well as art. From the shearing of sheep to expressing her art, she shares her passion for the felt.
 | Sophie Guindon |
Dolls have been part of our daily life for millennia. Through her work, Sophie wishes to keep this tradition alive.
Using natural fibres – the dolls are stuffed with sheepswool from Quebec – she creates unique little characters who each in their own way know how to awake a child's tenderness and imagination.
 | Pierre Langevin |
Born in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, having the alleyways of Trois-Rivieres as a playground. Pierre Langevin is also poet. He signs his artwork Pierrot. His urban landscapes of Hull, Ottawa, Montreal or Trois-Rivieres display crepuscular warm colors. Since 2000, he prefers oils in his work. Even though attracted to architecture, he enjoys more and more drawing people in their cities, their elusive vital signs among spaces or houses which will remain much longer.
 | Nicole Lavoie |
I was born in the beautiful nature of the Laurentids. From a young age I was fortunate to have a tutor for artist who inspired me and taught me the need to seek the spirit rather than the visual aspect of my surroundings.
Multiple moves succeed to arrive in Montreal where I completed several courses in art and finally emerge at Concordia University where I obtained a BA in fine arts.
 | Alex Leblanc |
Born in Montreal, Alex Leblanc lived his childhood in the Ottawa region of the Petite-Nation. Very early on, his attraction to photography is manifested through the influence of his mother who takes countless pictures of his son. Following her encouragement, young Alex begins handling a 35 mm camera, which propels him into the world of creativity.
During his teenage years, his growing interest is demonstrated by his participation in various school projects. Constant use of his camera turns him into an unconditional fan of photography.
A few years later, he earned a college diploma in photography at La Cité Collégiale in Ottawa. This leads him to accept the position of Director of photography at University of Ottawa's student-run newspaper La Rotonde. Studying Visual Arts at the same institution introduces him to multidisciplinary and multimedia practices.
For five years, Alex Leblanc has been teaching photography and media art at the high-school level. Alongside his teaching, he ceaselessly pursues his artist statement, which mainly focuses on theatricality in photography.
| Michelle Lemire and François Allard |
Website http://www.solartceramic.com
 | Yolande Labrecque |
Mrs. Labrecque attended watercolor courses in Laval with Mrs Lise Grothé. In Gatineau. She attended workshops on watercolor and mix media (Unryu paper and silk paper with acrylics on watercolor paper) with Mrs. Gisèle Lefebvre. She is continuing her education with Mrs Hélène Denis and currently with M. Jan Czuban on oil painting. Mrs. Labrecque is now Chair of the committee for Art de l'Ordinaire, Cantley.
 | Danielle Paré |
Danielle Paré's artwork accurately reflects her dynamic personality. Her style may easily be recognized by her expressive paintbrush, her stylized forms and the harmonies of her choice of vibrant colors. From the Outaouais, the artist prefers to paint with acrylics to represent still life which she dubs ‘living life’ because they express joy, well-being and at times, amusingly represent our own habits and personalities. Danielle Paré is represented by the art gallery Bégin in Montréal and by the Loft Gallery in Clarksburg (north of Toronto).
 | Diane Dagenais |
Self-taught, Diane Dagenais has been painting acrylics since 2005. From the town of Gatineau, she is inspired by the national and international news, especially by environmental and social issues. Diane wishes to convey her emotions, her preoccupations by her artwork. However, her artwork leaves the viewer with feelings of well-being. Her artist’s name is DDBella.
 | Georges Richard |
Born in Hull in 1940, Georges Richard studied with Henri Masson in the 1950’s. He has been painting on a full time basis for the last two years. His acrylic and oil paintings are exposed in various galleries. He has won the public choice award at the Aylmer Council of Arts 2006 Spring Exhibit.
 | Jinny Slyfield |
I love portraits and landscape, inspired by travel, Emily Carr, the Group of Seven and Van Gogh, but I also travel into the realm of the abstract.
I have been teaching art for 20 years, for the Ottawa Board of Education, VACO, and the Shenkman Centre in Ottawa, and privately in Switzerland.
After studying graphic design, I was Art Director for Ambience Advertising and CCL Advertising, winning several design awards.
Le centre communitaire de La Celle St. Cloud, France, the Ottawa School of Art, Algonquin College, the galleries and spaces of Europe, and the landscapes of Canada have all contributed to my education.
I am pleased to be a juried-in member of the Foyer Gallery and the Society of Portrait Artists.
 | Nancy Leigh Smith |
Nancy Leigh-Smith is an internationally known figurative and fibre artist. Inspiration for Nancy’s art comes from nature and people both real and imaginary. Her art is unique, vibrant and often humorous.
 | Wayne Theoret |
After retiring as Senior Graphic Designer, I decided to express my creative abilities in art through wood. I wanted to take my art a step beyond and chose exotic wood to best express my ideas.
I create my own designs through constant research and work with thirty or more different woods form around the globe, for a variety of color, texture and definition.
My pieces are unique, really ‘One of a Kind’ – there is no paint or stain – only natural wood, even if several pieces are made from the same layout, using different wood creates a new separate piece.
The love of wood, plenty of patience, perseverance and creative ideas are all combined in producing my art – until the very last piece is laid in place.
 | Andrée Daviau |
Born in 1963, Andrée Daviau, a Franco-Ontarian from Orleans (Ontario), doodles on all her hands can get on since childhood. Self-taught, she works with charcoal, ink, oils and soft pastels. For the past year, she has concentrated her work on texture by exploring the mixing of materials (acrylic, oils, mortar and soft pastels). Simultaneously semi-abstract and semi-figurative, her artwork explores the place of humans in creativity, this concealed place, excluded from gazes in our universe that artificially reproduces nature. Andrée Daviau is guided by her subconscious and intuitively she seeks to bring out, by the colors, the different layers of materials and by her strokes, quasi-organic, vein like, the human being.
 | Robert Sarrazin |
Self-taught artist, born in St-Jerome (QC), Robert Sarrazin has been painting for more than 20 years. Now retired from his teaching career, painting has become an ultimate moment of relaxation. His paintings partially immortalize his memories of trips to France (Provence), to Italy and areas of the Petite Nation (QC) where he currently lives (St-Sixte, QC). His artwork dazzles with forms and colors. The artistic touch of M. Sarrazin adds additional pleasure to the eyes.
 | Diane Desautels |
Self-taught, I have been painting for the past fifteen years. Recuperation also has been part of my artistic path where many materials such as textiles, strings and mostly silk paper are integrated to my artwork thus given a new life to objects and providing a basis and a body to my canvas. I am inspired by my surrounding, its people and emotions that stem from it and by my ecological concerns. This structures my pictorial universe.
 | Trudy Scott |
Born in Stephenville Newfoundland in 1964, youngest of a family of 10, drawing has been a big part of Trudy Scott’s life. Surrounded by artistic people in her family, this environment has a profound effect on Trudy’s artistic abilities. She chose a career in the Canadian Armed Forces at 19 of age. She retired in 2006 to pursue her hearts desire: drawing and metaphysics and has brought the visual arts to the forefront of her life. Trudy Scott looks forward to the future and the opportunities that being an artist will bring.
 | Christine Desbiens-Pilon |
Born in Hull, in 1966, Christine Desbiens-Pilon starts painting in her late 30’s. A self-taught artist at first, she inspires herself from everything around her. To ensure that she doesn’t get stuck in one mold, she paints everything from landscapes to figures and still life. Her style can’t be qualified as she works with different mediums from one painting to another, from painting a delicate ballerina to a texture filled canvas for vases and urns.
 | Brian Seed |
Brian was born in Grand'mere , Quebec in 1938 and grew up in Maniwaki , Quebec . He attended Ashbury College and Carleton University . Since retiring in 2003, he has been more active than ever in his second career. He lives and paints from his studio in Gatineau and his work is a reflection of the many beautiful landscape scenes of the area. Brian is a member of The Ottawa Watercolour Society, the Ottawa Art Association, the Manotick Art Association and the Aylmer Arts Counsel.
Official website http://ottawaartassoc.ca/gallery/artists/brian-seed-2.htm
 | Malcolm Surette |
Primarily a landscape artist, born in the small Acadian community of Surette's Island in Nova Scotia, Malcolm Surette is a self-taught artist who has studied relentlessly the technique of oil painting. He draws his inspiration from nature, particularly from the shores of Nova Scotia and rural Quebec. His solo show 'Mon Acadie' has been presented in 2005 at the au Théatre de l'Ile in Gatineau. His work now hangs in many Canadian provinces and in the United States.
Officiel website http://www.artaupluriel.ca/malcolmsurette
 | Norlan Vilchez |
Norlan Vilchez is a self-taught young artist born in Nicaragua in 1984. In early school years, he develops his talent in drawing, painting and sculpture. During childhood, he won many school contests. He did not have the opportunity to study in the arts, however his passion lead him to continuously develop his talent. In 2005, he immigrates to Canada with his bride. He is astonished by the cultural diversity in Canada which inspires him to start a series on portraits of children of all origins in order to honor this multicultural place that welcomed him so well. Norlan Vilchez is continuously searching a realistic style in his work. His portraits are known for the realism of the physical traits and in particular the subject's eyes. He has participated to a few collective exhibitions in Gatineau and hopes to pursue his career in the arts.
 | Jean-Gilles Francoeur |
Born in Casselman, Ontario, he comes from a long line of woodworkers. Self-taught, he has become passionate about woodturning in the last five years. He loves to combine different species and works with shapes, textures and colors to highlight the natural beauty of each piece. Jean-Gilles was awarded various prizes since 2002 at the Valley Woodturners Competition, one of which being “Best of Show” in 2004. He has recently appeared on CTV’s Regional Contact and exhibits his work in various galleries around Ottawa.
Official website http://www.yessy.com/JGFineWoodwork
 | Patricia Kirby |
Patricia Kirby is currently painting a series called Spirit Trees in watercolour on paper and watercolour, pastel and collage on wood panel.
Her art work hangs in the Ottawa Art Gallery rental and sales as well as the Foyer Gallery and in collections in North America, Europe and Australia.
 | Jocelyne Sirois-Lavallée |
Visual artist of the Outaouais region, Jocelyne Sirois-Lavallée’s love for painting was revealed by a course in France with the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ottawa. She is a fashion designer, graduated with honors for her design, from Richard Robinson’s Fashion School in Ottawa. Many courses followed at the Ottawa School of Art, at the University of Québec in Hull and with several known artists of the Société Canadienne de l’aquarelle. She is a member of various artistic associations and participates to a lot of juried shows. Jocelyne Sirois-Lavallée loves the introspection process where the creative ideas flow and put them on paper to express perfectly her emotion to the art viewer. Her figurative and abstract paintings are characterized by boldness, vibrant colors and movement. Mix media and aqua media are part of her passion.
 | Jean H. Guilmette |
This artist’s work expresses the diversity, richness and complexity of his human and artistic experiences. Jean H. Guilmette sculptures convey the construction of a constant moving world and unstable balance, which is based on the image of women, on the traditional metaphor of life and on the strong difference between men and women.
 | André St-Onge |
André St-Onge, a self-taught watercolour artist, use only water, colour and paper in his paintings. Each of his artwork, first unconsciously, metamorphoses into an illustration filled with emotions. He has recently exhibited at Théâtre del’Ile, Café des quatre jeudis at the library of the Barreau du Québec.
Official website http://st-ongeart.com
 | Denise Hupé |
This artist demonstrates her creativity through numerous forms of arts. Fascinated by architecture, design and art history, she explores various mediums such as acrylic, ink, watercolor and oils. The diversity of her subjects shows her constant desire to express her emotions. Charmed by the innocence of children, she seeks to cause an emotion and to express the sensitivity of a person or the beauty of a place and the joys of the life through all her paintings.
 | André Turbide |
Originally from Kirkland Lake, a vibrant community roughly 150 miles (250 Km) north of North Bay in Ontario (Canada), André worked for over 30 years in sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
Once retired, he became interested in woodturning and what started off as a simple hobby quickly became a passion. Andri uses mostly local timber in his turnings and endeavours to bring out the natural beauty of the wood by careful planning of form and elegance in his vases, bowls or platters.
| Pierre Langevin |
Pierre (Pierrot) Langevin has spent his childhood on the streets of Trois-Rivières, among the foam coming from the Wabasso and the pyramids of wood left by the International Company of paper. Pierrot paints houses, all in warm latin colors. Rarely snow, rarely wooden areas. His urban landscapes are represented in flamboyant colors, his artwork replenishes of light and details. Pierrot would very much enjoy seeing something to rise from the ruins of the futures.
 | Gilles Yelle |
The effect of light in nature is of utmost importance in his creations. The diversity of North American and European landscapes inspires Gilles Yelle.. The covered bridges, ancestral homes and old buildings discovered in his paintings would have much to say if they could. The immense diversity of colors found in his environment captivates him.
 | Diane Larocque |
Retired as a teacher, Diane Larocque feels priviledged to finally paint her small watercolours for the simple pleasure of creating. She took private drawing and painting lessons as a youth and continued later on with different techniques: ink, watercolour and oriental calligraphy. Her unique cards and original watercolour jewels can be purchased in various shops of the Outaouais region.
Official website http://www.aquacarte.com
 | Lucie Bourdeau |
Lucie Bourdeau is from the Outaouais region. She has been recently creating jewellery. Her passion of beads gets transformed into necklaces, bracelets, earrings, key-rings and bookmarks. She likes to use metal, glass, wood, semi-precisions stones and resin beads.
 | Rémi Lacroix |
Drawing since his childhood, Remi Lacroix takes workshops from 1998 to 2003 with the Quebec City painter Cristobal who forwards his passion for painting. He then continues on his own by creating numerous landscapes in pastel. Since 2010, he devoted himself with passion to abstract painting.
 | André Guindon |
André Guindon is a stone sculptor from Gatineau. He mainly uses alabaster and steatite for stylized and abstracts subjects. He was initiate to sculpture at the Ottawa School of Arts and at the École d’été de Mont-Laurier. Since 2008 he has participated in collective expositions, some of them through invitation by jury, in Almonte, Gatineau, Coaticook, Montreal south shore and Montréal.
 | Danielle Richard |
My Mosaics pieces are inspired by the ever changing seasons and beautiful Canadian landscape. I enjoy the texture and colors of stained glass which combined with natural lighting create a one of a kind unique piece of art set in vintage frames. My artistic background was influenced at an early age by fashion and custom design at the Richard Robinson Academy and by Life drawing and Watercolor classes at the Ottawa School of Art. I’m enjoying this new medium that has no boundaries for my imagination!
 | Louise Boulay |
Louise Boulay, born and raised in Hull, started her artistic career as a singer in the 1960’s and ‘70’s. In the ‘80’s and ‘90’s, inspired by the children she taught in kindergarten, she publishes two children stories compendium. During that time, she also studied at UQAH in the visual arts and obtained her degree. She studied with René Louis in Martinique which greatly influenced her work. Her artwork may be found in many private and public collections, including the Loto-Québec Collection. In the spring 2011, she plans to go to France in residency to work on a new art collection.
 | Alex De Lavoie |
Alex De Lavoie, paints Lollypop naive art. Her artwork brings us back to childhood with winter or multicolored scenery and trees painted in the form of lollypops. Her characters, depicted with a comma for eyes and mouth garnish the colorful sceneries inspired by events of every day life.
 | Janice Moorhead |
Janice Moorhead is well known across Canada for her unique approach to stained glass. In 1985, she developed a ‘layering’ technique that eliminated the need for the traditional soldered joint. Shards of glass, sandwiched between panels of clear glass, create delicate landscapes that interact with the play of light.
 | Jonathan Fournier |
 | Bill Keast |
 | Valérie Mandia |
Born in 1986, Valérie Mandia lives in Gatineau. Torn between Visuals Arts and Literature, she has always been curious about the limits beetween these two artistic expressions. She’s also interested in the artist-writer. She first studied Visual Arts and French Litterature at the University of Ottawa. At this time, she is working on a master’s in French Litterature where her words and paintings meet each other.
 | Özgen Eryasa |
Having practiced science, data processing, management, painting, music, poetry and wood working, he finds his calling in stone sculpture to which he devotes all his available time since 2007. His career as a sculptor is confirmed in 2009: a recognition in St-Basile-Le-Grand, a first prize in La Prairie and a number of invitations to participate in exhibitions and symposiums.
 | Louise-Marie Thomassin |
Louise-Marie Thomassin was born in Québec city in 1963. After studying in Geneva and in Ottawa, she now lives in Hull, where she devotes herself to her work in international development and to her painting. Self-taught painter, she successively explored pottery, watercolors and acrylics before pursuing a more structured approach by enrolling in 2003 at the École d’art et de créativité des Créations diversiformes (Louis Couture).
Working primarily with a spatula, his favorite tool, in her pictorial composition Louise-Marie favors the opposition between light and shadow, between the bright colors and darker shades reflecting the fact that the search for equilibrium thrives on confrontation of opposites, and cannot be exercised without movement.
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