DESJARDINS, SOPHIE

Sophie Desjardins devotes her artistic practice to intaglio printmaking on copper plates, known as “taille‑douce”, working primarily with etching, aquatint, and mezzotint techniques. Her personal visual style and deep connection to the animal world lend her works a signature that is easily recognizable. While remaining true to traditional techniques, she favors a contemporary form of … Read More

PINSONNEAULT, JEAN-FRANÇOIS

Member of Atelier Circulaire since 2023, Jean-François Pinsonneault now devotes a large part of his artistic practice to printmaking, particularly lithography, intaglio, and digital drawing, combining photography. His work is influenced by the pictorial language of landscapes, particularly forests, trees, and bark. Faced with the raw material formed by burls and frost, texture and gesture … Read More

CLOUTIER, PAUL

Graduated in Fine Arts in Québec, Paul Cloutier participates in different well known workshops both in America and Europe, and is awarded various prizes and scholarships. His work is to be found in important collections, here and abroad. Among others, the Louvre, Cabinet des Estampes, the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal, and the Museum … Read More

PALACIO, GLORIA

Gloria Palacio, a Colombian-born visual artist, has lived and worked in Montreal since 2002. Specializing in painting and printmaking, she holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Panthéon-Sorbonne I University and studied at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Since 1983, she has exhibited internationally, participating in numerous biennials and triennials. In 1989, … Read More

ALVARO

Alvaro has been a designer and visual artist for over 20 years, building a solid experience as a graphic designer, videographer, photographer, and web designer for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private clients, in Brazil and Canada. The artist has participated in group exhibitions with Art Souterrain, Le Center Dare-Dare and the Fantasia Festival in addition … Read More

CLAUDE, MARYE

Marye Claude is above all a passionate explorer, very sensitive and with varied interests. As a multidisciplinary artist, her mainly self-taught career leads her to writing as well as to the performing arts – singing, dancing, drama – as well as to the visual arts; drawing, ink, watercolor, collage, modeling, photography, painting and printmaking. For … Read More

MERCIER, LUCIE

I live and work in Montreal, where I am originally from. My artistic practice mainly included drawing (pencil, dry pastels, charcoal), but since 2016 I have been interested in monotype. During my first training with the artist Jacinthe Tétrault, I fell in love with this technique. I like its preparatory ritual before creation, it allows … Read More

CHOQUETTE, DOMINIQUE

A graduate of the Literary Studies at UQAM (1997), Dominique Choquette is inspired not only by words but also by her numerous travels. She also worked at the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie for several years in Africa and the Caribbean on educational projects, and during this time, she obtained a Master’s degree in International Communications from … Read More

GADOURY, LYNDA

Artist curious about multiple engraving techniques and the use of transparent mediums (ink, watercolor) I try, in my artistic practice, to give space to objects and living beings, which through their singularity, offer a reflection on their importance in our collective and private spaces and on the privilege of encountering their beauty. I have a … Read More

DELANEY, KATHRYN

With roots in Irish-Montreal and Québecois culture, I grew up immersed in the storytelling and oral history traditions of both. In 2022, I began to illustrate ‘Patricia’s Stories’ a narrative journey centered on my mother’s self-published memoir Swinging on a Star (2011), developing it into a chronological series. My color silkscreen prints on black paper … Read More