I have many objects in my studio that make me travel into the heart of imaginary worlds.  This dinosaur tooth is one of them, simply by looking at it, by holding it. This fragment of prehistoric shark inspires images and stories.

My sculpture studio in the basement is my Ali Baba cave.  

Here's one of my organization bins for brass, stones, glass, copper, jewelry, lamps and a whole lot more that I find here and there for assembly work.  Even parts of my old toaster are in there.  With the right material, magic can happen!

"Of the Earth and the Ethereal"

August 31st to September 31, 2017
Exhibition opening August 31st from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Gallery on Queen, Fredericton, NB

Very often, I receive peculiar gifts for the creation of some of my sculptures, like this moose antler given to me by my neighbor who found it on the forest floor.

Moose shed their antlers between December and March.  "Buckman" is part of the show "Of the Earth and the Ethereal" at the Gallery on Queen in Fredericton.

There are a lot of steps that go into creating sculptures.  This one is well under way, however, there is still work left to be done.  Some of its elements need to air dry and after that, they have to be bisque fired. Then the bisque has to be glazed, fired again, and finally, I will do the assembly work which will require some welding. 

And all through the process, I'm keeping my mind open for possible changes.

These days, I'm working at the Edmundston Art Centre studio.  I'm trying out new glazes and hoping for great results.

Sometimes, objects that I find to create land art are rather heavy and strange, like part of this trailer. The sea spat it on the beach, I used it to do a work and in the following 3 days, the come and go of the water played with it as if it was a twig.

Landart, "Sea Anemone" - Here are some photos, taken in different atmospheres, of one of the works that I created during my artist residency Aux Trois Plaquebières, Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, Lamèque Island.

From the 14th to the 21st of May, I will be artist in residence Aux Trois Plaquebières, Lamèque Island.  My residency project will be inspired by the spirit of place and the wild nature of Lamèque and Miscou Islands.

While travelling these two territories, I will be working on sketches, taking notes and gathering photographic material for an artistic project that I will share with you at a later date.  The artist Yvon Gallant will also be on site and will work on his own project.

I have a feeling it's going to be a week of discoveries.

Morning light rays penetrating my studio.

Before I start to work on large clay sculptures, I give myself time to just work on small ones.  Its a matter of fine tuning my senses.

I work with lots of different mediums.  Sometimes, it can be weeks or months before I return to a medium in particular.  The warm up period enables me to get into the groove so that I can better solve technical problems that always come when working on large clay sculptures.

I'm very much interested in the effects of weathering and atmosphere on works of art. 

Freezing rain from the night before embedded her body deeper into the snow.  The dawn welcomes Ophelia through swirling snowflakes and gusts of wind.  Her ceramic skin is covered with frost and marked by the ice-cold north wind.  Ophelia drifts into a deep midwinter sleep.

To see more works of this series, click here.