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"Chemistry meets artistry in Monique Daneau’s melodically expressive paintings"







Trained in oil painting, acrylics liberated Daneau to create thickly whispering compositions, rich in serrated texture. This is an artist who explores paint like a scientist scrutinizes a specimen, approaching the canvas without preconceived drawings or studies, pure in aesthetic concentration. 

 

She poetically observes the people, place and essence of the world around her, translating her experience into sumptuously paintings. Daneau credits acrylic paint for releasing her style from any lumbering materiality. Her work is vivid in its firm base in the present, and in that sense acrylic is emblematic of her zealous approach to life. “I am a passionate person who lives life in the moment,” she says. “I currently seek my inspiration from the people around me and  their stories of happiness and sorrow.” A native of Sorel-Tracy, Canada, Monique Daneau has exhibited her work worldwide.

 

Monique´s very impressive statement:


In my world, arts and sciences have always been inseparable. At first, oils enabled me to express my innermost emotions. This means has given me the opportunity to completely change the way I see the world around me. I rediscovered colors in a completely different way. Everything around me transformed overnight into an infinite palette of shadows and light. 

Then, a few years ago, during an artistic retreat to the Magdalena Islands, I experimented with acrylics and other tools. 
My art took on a new dimension. This new, more abstract medium, has become my true passion. The Islands’ beauty mixed with its ruggedness, the open fields and sandy beaches, the ocean blues mixing with the sky on the horizons, gave me endless inspiration to bring my canvases to life. Vibrant colors and spontaneous strokes enable me to express my deepest thoughts and emotions on each new piece I create. 


I am a passionate person who lives life in the moment. I currently seek my inspiration from the people around me and their stories of happiness and sorrow. I create to free myself of the countless secrets, hopes and fears entrusted to me every day. I listen and observe by day and look forward to letting everything out by night.


"Live life, now!", through this saying you are invited to Daneau´s upcoming exhibitions:

• April 18-22 , the Affordable Art Fair New York with representation with Artêria Gallery 
• The Manifestation of Milieu, at Agora Gallery, Chelsea , New York , June 12 to July 3 , This is a international collective exhibition 
• 36th International exhibition with CAPSQ (Cercle des artistes peintres et scupteurs du Québec) at Musée national de la Marine roumaine, Constanta, Roumanie, July 2 to 16 2012
• 37th International exhibition with CAPSQ, Louisiana, USA

Monique's paintings emit affirmation of life and through her mystical choice of colors they immerse myself in the vastness of the universe.

 

 

 

Posted by MOO | Monika Mori at 1:01 PM