In 2011, I created the first of a series of wall sculptures titled “Womb Shells” sorts of chestplates, shields, pelt-cradles, shelters, armours, echo chambers, choc absorbers, bastions, envelopes, shells, ramparts, enclosures, sacred vessels, refuges, cocoons, dens, buffers …

Like distant echoes, the “Womb Shells” resonate through time with an ancient power that is rooted in the archaic remnants of our ancestral mothers.  Some are belly chambers that house creation, others are tombstone chambers preserving memories of extinct lives.  They vibrate with the power of elemental forces, the whispers of wild creatures or with mysteries.

These “Womb Shells” are defensive barriers that protect their symbolic content from the chaotic winds of time.  These matrices are designed to honor creation and life. This series is ongoing.

Cabinets of curiosities were pieces of furniture, or sometimes rooms, where singlar and improbable things were stored and exhibited: heterogeneous mixtures of naturalia, works of artificialia, fascinating objects of exotica or contraptions of scientifica.  Often subjects of ostentation, luxury or oddities, these cabinets were made up of a collection of the most diverse objects.  True spaces of wonders filled with monstrosities, skeletons, hybrid animals, collections of rare specimens and objects of  amusement; they were also often overflowing with ambiguous or surprising works of art.

A view inside the exhibition space for the exhibition “Cabinet of Curiosities” showing from November 4, 2021 to January 21, 2022 at the Edmundston Art Center.

In the studio working on multiple artworks created with reclaimed or given objects.  In this image, a 5 feet x 3 feet goddess painting in progress incorporates old jewelry, lamp parts, furniture mouldings, ceramic elements, glass cabochon, door knobs and more.

At this stage, I’m preparing to apply some gold leaf.  After that, I will see what else needs to be done.  Thank you artsnb for the support given towards this project.

There will be an exhibition of this body of work this autumn.

In 2012, I created one hundred Goddess clay figurines.  I’ve been using them, mostly at the bisque stage, in a landart ephemeral installation project titled “Goddesses of Nature”.

At the moment, I’m in the process of working on each of them individually adding glazes and elements.   Here is an exemple: “Fiddlehead Goddess”.

Festival d’art actuel, Edmundston, NB, from November 12 to 28, 2020

A “Curio” is a glass cabinet or display case where you can present collections of objects that share a common theme.  “Pop-up” installations allow alternatives to traditional exhibitions spaces; they are also an invitation to experience works of art, either while driving or by walking on the sidewalk.

“Curio” is an installation of 3 digital paintings of goddesses presented as an altarpiece.  This gothic style arrangement refers to cathedral windows; which, in this case symbolically offers a look into the sacred feminine.  Presented from an improbable and surprising place, these newly invented goddesses are in a way visual anthologies, modern icons that add to the traditional world of female archetypes.

The day I decided to gather all the hidden works that I had in boxes and drawers, journals, sketchbooks and files in my computer was the day that I realized that I had the beginnings of a whole imagined world, the size of a planet, at my fingertips.  I knew I could gather all this work into one single concept, a worldbuilding project which I named Imaginarium.

This project has been growing at a steady pace ever since.  I’m still sifting through old works, some of them over 20 years old; but, I’m also creating new works on a continous basis.  At the moment, Imaginarium has a creation myth, lots of drawings, hundreds of digital images, a good amount of drafts and finished short stories, character origin stories, beasts and other odd creatures, gods and goddesses and mind maps for different groupings of species and ecosystems.  It’s a long term project I’m committed to.

Solo exhibition at the Galerie Art-Artiste in Dieppe, NB

I am very grateful to be part of issue no. 12, “Enviro” of the CreatedHere Magazine.

Art Deeply sown …  “I do not know if I was inspired by nature or seduced by her.  I was born on a farm with the nearest neighbours kilometers away.  Huge gardens, picking wild fruits, being snowbound for days in winter, swimming in the river two, sometimes three times a day on hot summer days, working very hard, surrounded by wild and domesticated animals; all this was part of my everyday life.  This natural upbringing is at the base of who I am.  Nature has always attracted me like a flower attracts a bee to the intimacy of its heart”.

Every time I start new projects, I clean my studio from top to bottom, burn incense and meditate … these are just a few of my rituels!!

2020 is going to be a year of revelations.  I’ll let you know precisely what its about when everything is ready to GO!

Thrilled to be part of this group exhibition of New Brunswick stone sculptors at the Saint John Arts Centre from July 5 to August 30, 2019.