Self-taught, Yvon St-Aubin is both a musician and a painter. After studying and playing music professionnally in his twenties, St-Aubin learns to draw in the company of artists. It is while sketching with his mentors and other landscape artists that he discovers and falls in love with the region of Charlevoix. His work, bathed in the soft and warm light of an ending afternoon, distinguishes itself by its vivid colours and playful compositions. In the year 2002, he was named Charlevoix’s artist of the year.

MICHEL DESMARAIS

As a young boy he pretended all sorts of duties in order to sneak into the workshop of Léo Ayotte, a neighbour. A great love had begun… painting.

Today the artist enjoys his freedom to paint and affirms his tenderness towards the skies and countrysides of Quebec. From ther soars a form of freshness  lighting his rustic sceneries. A new study, a new subject, who knows… a new force guides Michel Des Marais.

The sensitivity and the passion that he withholds lead to the temptation to accompany him through the fields and the shepherd farms.

Pinochet is a great traveller and he much enjoys reproducing his vision of the world, which he relates in an anecdotal way.  No sooner has the artist captured his subject and its luminosity, than he hurries back to the studio to produce unique pictures, dense with life and colour. His preferred subjects are urban scenes, which he treats in lively tones, intermingled with patches of heat and sun.

The sensitivity and the passion that he withholds lead to the temptation to accompany him through the fields and the shepherd farms.

 Claude Bonneau is a self-taught artist. He was very young when he first got interested in painting and drawing. He's been painting exclusively with oil and acrylic for a number of years. The Baie-Comeau International Jazz Festival chose one of his paintings to be the official poster of the event. This year was his fifth participation at the prestigious Fine Art Symposium of Baie-Comeau. His work is exhibited in many different galleries across Canada.

WOMAN OF MY LIFE

Initiated to the arts as a young girl through classical dance, which she practised for over 15 years, Nathalie Chiasson mastered the language of the body. She has had a very successful career in theatre and dance and also taught dancing to children for many years. She was always fascinated by expressing emotions using the body language. She decided to take on studying fashion design and graduated in 1989, winning the prestigious award « Dé d’argent » that same year. In her paintings, using acrylic and coffee wash, she brings together her many talents as a fashion designer, and her passion for the human figure in action. She paints in a figurative and expressionist manner still life and roosters, using a thick layer of paint and textures…all with passion, movement and energy.

MICHEL BOISVERT

Michel Boisvert was born in Trois-Rivières in May, 1955 Self-taught, he has been living in Québec since 1988. He participated in many exhibit groups and symposiums. He also organized many solo exhibits, which allowed him to be renowned in the artistic field. His painting style is different by its colors and his passion for the architecture of small towns and cities. His figurative style, with a touch of impressionism, shows his emotive side, his passion for life and his admiration for the beauty of the environment.

JEAN PAUL LEDUC

The Artist Jean-Paul Leduc a resident of "Ile d'Orléans" since 1974, as presented many solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group "symposium" in North America. His very special skill and style as evolved with well-known Masters such as Charles Movalli and Charly Sovek. In 1998 Jean-Paul Leduc won the prestigious First prize at St-Germain de Kamouraska for his oil painting.

MARIO BEAUDOIN, YVON ST-AUBIN, MICHEL BOISVERT AND CLAUDE SIMARD ON TREMBLAY HILL AT EBOULEMENTS