How long have you been creating?

I think I have been creating forever. As far as I can remember, creation has always been an important part of my life. At a young age, I was working leather, after that I picked up the flute and guitar by ear, later the saw and hammer, to become eventually a toy maker for 10 years to finally move to painting in the early 90’s.

What, besides your art, brings you creative fulfillment?

Art is a part of a whole in my life. As much as I need the contact with nature, painting permits me to always search for new sites and beautiful scenery.

What are your motivations for creating?

I like to go back to those sites during the ever changing moods of the seasons. It is a privilege to be part of these places, staying almost still during a few hours and really getting the feel of a site, with its changing light, the wind, the sun sometime turning into rain and the mosquitoes that at times stick in my wet paintings. Sitting on a canoe attached to a branch, out in the middle of a field or just in the car, pulled up beside the road with the canvas on the steering wheel.

How do you know when a piece you're working on is done?

I feel the piece is done once I feel that whatever I would add to the painting could not enhance it. A painting has something to say. For me, there is no need to add superficial elements or fancy techniques to make it better.

What do you find stimulating right now? How does this influence your creative process?

Right now, here in Quebec, fall is starting. During the next month or two, nature will metamorphose itself into a wide range of colors from green and gold fields, to the red maple leaves followed by yellow birch and larch, and then brown and finally a white snow blanket will end this spectacular event. This season is highly stimulating.

What brought you to EBSQ?

I have been showing my work, through galleries, symposiums, and on workshop tours. I started selling online a couple years ago, first on eBay, and then on ETSY, and finally I found EBSQ which makes a nice complement.

What are some of your artistic goals for the future?

My goal is to keep doing what I love most as often as I can, to continue driving on those country roads, canoe and hike so that I can be in touch with nature as well as beautiful painting sites.

What would you like your fellow EBSQ artists and our collectors to know about you and/or your work?

I want people to know that each of my paintings is from what I experienced discovering either from painting on site or in the studio.

My paintings are the offspring of an intimate relationship between nature and myself.