FRANÇOIS BEAUDRY is a canadian artist living in Montreal

Beaudry left the engineering profession to handle materials such as beeswax, damar gum, chalk, rabbit skin glue, carborundum, required by his attraction towards specific painting techniques: encaustic, tempera, pastel and watercolour.

francois beaudry egg tempera painting portrait woman — Egg tempera

francois beaudry pastel and watercolor painting still life leaves plate fruit table motif blue table series 1 — Pastel and Watercolor, Blue Table series

francois beaudry encaustic painting landscape bas-relief trees rock moss horse dog via appalachia series 15 — Encaustic, Via Appalachia series

francois beaudry egg tempera painting landscape cascade rocks moss dog via appalachia series 1 — Tempera, Via Appalachia series

francois beaudry egg tempera painting still life chair books curtain chercheur de tresors series — Tempera, Le Chercheur de Trésors series

francois beaudry encaustic painting woman figure bas-relief — Encaustic

francois beaudry mixed-media painting pastel watercolor and encaustic bas-relief — Fire Escape series

Francois Beaudry sunflowers pastel watercolor still life carborundum — Pastel and Watercolor

francois beaudry pastel and watercolor painting portrait woman carborundum — Pastel and Watercolor

Nevertheless, driven by the circumstances, during the realization of his portraits, landscapes and still lifes, he dived into the thought of Picasso, discovered that he was resolutely opposed to abstraction and, subsequently, he confronted it with the thought of one of his contemporary, a brilliant defender of abstraction esteemed by the avant-garde: the German art historian Wilhelm Worringer. These contradictory thoughts were to settle at the heart of his artistic path (which can be consulted by clicking here), make him discover the author Aloïs Riegl twenty years later and relaunch his research.