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 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 has recently returned to Lac Schryer after 6 years in California. Being exposed to such incredible landscapes was enough to invoke the artist in anyone. This gave her the rare opportunity to look at the Canadian landscape with ‘fresh’ eyes and to appreciate its lush colour and beauty. She has always been very artistic with a strong need to create. She has been designing and teaching quilting and jewellery making for the past 3 years. California is where she first made the decision to dedicate herself full time to her work. It has been her obsession, her joy and her escape ever since. She likes to work with watercolour as she feels it captures a light and atmosphere that one cannot duplicate with other medium. She also works with acrylics because of its flexibility and correct ability.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Louise Cormier
Originally from Beloeil, I have been living in Gatineau for the past 10 years. Drawing and colors are part of my universe since childhood. For the past years with mixed techniques and acrylics, I try to express individual thought when words are no longer needed. My current artistic path is sharing emotions, redefining space and time, permitting other dimensions and leaving room for spontaneity and intuition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (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.
Thirty two artists representing a range of styles and visual arts medium combined with more than 700 visitors and the adoption of more than 60 artworks ensured the success of the first edition of Art au Pluriel held in 2007. Wanting to repeat this experience, we are launching the second visual art juried exhibit which will take place under the same roof.
November 14 2008 from 7 pm to 9 pm (jazz music with Andrée-Anne Maranda and Jean-Pierre Allain)
November 15, 2008 from 10 am to 5 pm
November 16, 2008 from 10 am to 4 pm.
This juried art exhibit is opened to all visual artists (painters to illustrators, sculptors to wood turners, pastellists to photographers, etc.) of the Outaouais greater area and to visual artists of surrounding regions.
We are delighted to inform you that Jean-Yves Guindon, the watercolour artist will be, once again, the Honorary President of Art au Pluriel. Born in Buckingham (QC) and winner of many prizes and mentions, he inspires himself mostly from nature and Quebec landscapes. His paintings distinguish themselves by their luminosity, their sensitivity and the interiority of their message. We are please to have his support for this art exhibit.
A word from our Honorary President
A Second Art Show for Art au Pluriel
The exhibit Art au Pluriel held last November at Gatineau was truly a success. As Honorary President I was delighted with the show and its aftermath.
Art au Pluriel has become the primary source of the regional expression of culture. As said in the opening speech on November 16 2007, by the Mayor of the City of Gatineau, Marc Bureau: "The arts are fully expanding in Gatineau."
To artists and artisans, come showcase your work and come share your passion and know-how with others.
To the people of the Outaouais, come encourage our homegrown talent during this unique artistic showcase.
As spokesperson of Art au Pluriel for another year, I feel privileged to support this noble cause – an art show that promotes the expression of many talents.
Participate and be part of this important event in Outaouais.
October 21 2008, Jean-Yves Guidon is nominated for the Culturiades 2008.
On October 13 2008, Art au Pluriel is now officially recognized as a non profit association by the Government of Quebec.
September 24 2008, M. Yves Audette presents the Yves Audette Jury Prize 600$ grant to Claire Guérette and the Yves Audette Jury Prize for young artists 300$ grant to Irène Lumineau.
After a lenghty review of the submitted artists portfolios on September 3 2008, the jury has retained 37 artists for the 2008 edition.
On May 7 2008, Art au Pluriel receives a major contribution from a local art lover. Yves Audette of Pharmacy Audette will sponsor the publicity in the local French media.
The second edition of Art au Pluriel is officially launched on May 11, 2008 with the call to artists to submit their application.
November 18 2007, Marie Paquette, artist won the Public Choice award for her artwork. She won a 300$ grant from Art au Pluriel.
On November 18 2007, M. Pierre Laflamme from Luskville won "Les nymphéas et la grenouille...", an artwork by Jean-Yves Guindon.
On November 16 2007 marked the official opening of the first edition of Art au Pluriel. The Mayor of the City of Gatineau, Marc Bureau, said a few words and congratulated the artists involved in launching this event.
November 3, Jean-Yves Guindon was named the Ambassadeur régional by the Académie Internationale des Beaux-Arts du Québec.
The Honorary President Jean-Yves Guindon was named the Ambassadeur de l'Outaouais by the Société nationale des Québécois de l'Outaouais in June 2007.
On April 19, the Honorary President Jean-Yves Guindon, the watercolour artist, praised the efforts of the executive committee for launching the first edition of Art au Pluriel.
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In autumn 2006, visual artists working in the greater area of the City of Gatineau (Quebec) have created this new form of juried visual art exhibit. They have established an executive committee (president, vice-president, treasurer and other members responding to different demands). This committee presided by Andrée Daviau, mixed techniques artist, has finalized the registration and participation guidelines, the costs of the event and the artists participation fees.
