AdelineLamarre

From Canada With Love

From Canada with love is showing my most recent work.
I like to tell stories about the strange creatures that lives inside me. These characters are subject to transformations over time, they change from one painting to another. They also mutate within the same painting. Their bodies grow into dreamlike shapes, vaguely plant-like monsters that communicate with each other and with their environment.
This is how my paintings become a narrative space. Each world is distinct, it speaks for itself and delivers a different message.
Every painting unfolds according to its own color palette. The work of coloring fascinates me and I pay particular attention to the arrangement of contrasts according to the mixtures that I can obtain using carefully selected pigments. This is why I only use paint formulated with pure pigments. And sometimes I make my paint using rarer pigments to achieve shades that would otherwise be unobtainable.

Bio

I was born in Quebec City (Canada) but 15 years ago moved to Montreal and that’s what gave a big boost to my art career.
Here I discovered a vast work environment that would have been inaccessible to me in Quebec city. I then gathered a wide array of very stimulating experiences that helped fueled my artistic practice. I was a portrait painter at the Palais de Justice, I worked as a scenic painter, made props for the cinema industry, and masks at the Cirque du Soleil. Now I manufacture artist oil paint at Kama Pigment. The same paint that I mostly use in my work.
I am now a multidisciplinary artist with a master’s degree in visual arts and the bulk of my creation is expressed in drawings and paintings using only traditional mediums. I work in book illustration and I love to participate in collective art exhibition with a thematic. My favorite media is definitely oil painting.
For about 20 years, at the beginning of my career, I was telling stories through comics I self- published and now I tell those stories through my paintings. I publish my sketches and my various projects on Instagram (@docteurpeste) and I have a website showing a good overview of my production (www.vaar.ca).