Artistic approach

Contemporary painter, Mariclair finds in lyrical abstraction the foundations of her artistic practice. Inspired by currents of automatism and abstract expressionism, her vibrant and poetic works project us into worlds where the sensitive meets the invisible.

Freed from constraints, she paints in tune with her feelings. From this emotional charge and experience result works that touch the many facets of the human being in perpetual mutation. A state of being in suspension, freed from interference, from which spring its "pictorial synchronicities". An initial gesture guides all the others expressing a great whole.

The sensitivity that emanates from it becomes a truth, a hopeful experience.

Exhibition | What hangs by a thread

The world seems to be a little different today than it used to be. How to live in the midst of these upheavals?

Our feelings and emotions exacerbated,

Our benchmarks evaporated,

Deeply weakened,

I turned off the news feeds

And found a space to breathe;

Focused on beauty in my daily life;

These moments of pure happiness are mine.

Exhibited series

Absorbed by her intense colors and imbued with a vital force, we can see in her paintings what she loves and what questions her. She treats colors like emotions, like a heat which emanates from the body, a gesture, a shock, a vibration which symbolizes a feeling or a particular atmosphere. All of this can evoke order or chaos, aggressiveness or gentleness, but also voluptuousness, femininity, impermanence, fluidity.

Her color spots occupy a volume, but we perceive them thanks to the contours which delimit them. And if her colors make up an atmosphere, the lines give shape to it, crisscrossed with threads or filaments to go beyond oneself. And it is in the treatment of light, source of life that gives depth to her paintings, that she expresses her joyful feelings. All the works in this exhibition represent the urgency of what we have. The evocative titles of Mariclair's works such as Élever sa vibration, Le calme revient, Équilibre fragile, Au-delà de soi, Vers de grands espoirs, reflect the unveiling of this shared urgency on the human condition.

Biography

Marie-Claire Plante (Mariclair) was born in Ste-Anne-de-la-Rochelle in Quebec. In the 1980s, she moved to Sherbrooke in the Eastern Townships where she currently lives.

Passionate about the arts since childhood, she explores as many techniques as possible: drawing, painting, textiles, media mix ... She cumulates several training courses of masters in visual art, private and in groups, with recognized artists such as Francine Labelle, Seymour Segal, Laurent Bonet.

In 2005, a visceral need to express himself freely brought him into the world of abstract art.

She opened her professional workshop and since then produced large-format abstract works between automatism and abstract expressionism.

She is a member of RAAV and the Federation of Canadian Artists.

She is represented by Galerie Archambault Lavaltrie, NAK Ottawa, Galerie Perkins Danville and Singulart Web.

Recipient of several awards since 2012, she is frequently cited in local media (TV, radio, press).

His works are part of public and private collections in Canada, the United States and Europe.