Citizenship : Canadian

Lives and works in Montréal, QC, Canada.

 

EDUCATION

 

Art : Self-taught with the exception of 2 workshops in 1982 and 1983 under the

direction of Albert Handell in Woodstock, New York.

 

Other : Engineering degree, École Polytechnique de l’université de Montréal, 1969.

Diploma in Management, McGill University, 1978.

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

1983:

Left the Engineering profession to become a painter.

 

1984 à 1994:

Participated in several group and individual exhibitions, among them:

-Four participation in the annual group exhibition of the "Pastel Society of America" held at

the "National Art Club" in New York. During these four years, because I won three prizes

with portraits, the PSA awarded me the title of “Master Pastellist.”

-Three solo exhibitions at the same gallery in Montréal.

 

From 1994: 

Separation from the gallery caused by my growing interest in aesthetic research,

not as a science of beauty, but as a science of forms.

The path leading to this research can be viewed by clicking here.

 

Other:

Research on media and supports, such as pastel on an abrasive surface,

egg-tempera on traditional gesso and encaustic,

the use of bas-relief in painting and contrapuntal structures.

 

It can take me up to two years to complete a painting.