François Chartier
François Chartier
 
OBRAS EN EXPOSICIÓN
 
Réverie
Réverie
The offering
The offering
Sin título
Sin título

 
 
You’r in Good Hands
You’r in Good Hands
A Star is Born
A Star is Born
A Vacation to Remember
A Vacation to Remember

 
 
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
Firework
Firework
Fire and Ice
Fire and Ice

 
 
Cloud Number Five
Cloud Number Five
Black and White in Color
Black and White in Color
Big Boy
Big Boy

 
 
Just a Tought
Just a Tought
Julie2
Julie2
Illogical
Illogical

 
 
Good Morning
Good Morning
Five Kings
Five Kings
Learn to Flye
Learn to Flye

 
 
Let’s Fly to Santa Fe
Let’s Fly to Santa Fe
Let’s go for a ride
Let’s go for a ride
Lollipops
Lollipops

 
 
Liza1
Liza1
Liza3
Liza3
Looking for Louise
Looking for Louise

 
 
Mme Butterfly
Mme Butterfly
Rhapsodie in blue
Rhapsodie in blue
Solitaire
Solitaire

 
 
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
I never Promise you a Rosegarden
I never Promise you a Rosegarden
The Trumpeters
The Trumpeters

 
 
The Twins
The Twins
Where have I parked the Batmobile
Where have I parked the Batmobile
Julie 1
Julie 1

 
 
Ying and Yang
Ying and Yang
 
PRESENTACIÓN
 
May 15, 1950 Drummundville Quebec Canada
Live and work in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

EDUCATION :

Self–taught : learn art trought the 25 years he worked as an Art Director and an Illustrator.

1970 – 1980 : Art Direction / Illustration ( Montreal)
1980 – 1990 : Illustration ( Toronto / Montreal )
1990 – 1998 : Digital Illustrtion ( Toronto / Montreal )

Major work : Concept and realization of the visual for the Cirque du Soleil show : « QUIDAM » « MYSTERE » and « O » ( Las Vegas )

1999 : Quit advertising to paint full time.
ARTIST STATEMENT

After evolving in the advertising world for over 25 years as an art director and an illustrator I felt the need to pursue in greater depth my own artistic journey. Painting was the only logical direction I could take as my experience, personal taste, longings and training, had prepared me for this path.

Since realism has always been of tremendous interest to me it was natural that this was the direction my art should take. Although my paintings are realistic my goal is to create, through the layering of mediums and the play of the brush, the illusion of depth and sense of presence beyond what is found in photographs.

My choice of painting subject is usually dictated by the rhythm, shape, color, light and shadow I obtain by staging objects, flowers or people together. The themes of many of my paintings explore the relationship of light with reflective and transparent surfaces, as they echo my journey to understand these qualities and convey my sense of wonder and intrigue over them. I aim to tell a story that expresses my unique vision, to create an image that first moves me and hopefully moves the viewer.

I am drawn to painting large scale works where my subjects, always painted bigger then life size, are given room to seize the viewer and where life’s smaller details are revealed in their beauty and simplicity. Because of the large scale and the amount of detail involved in each painting, it is very important that I am at peace with the subject before I dedicate hours of painstaking work to execute it. Although this means that my artistic output is reduced my goal is to insure that every painting is of outmost quality and accurately captures my vision.

My work has been presented in Galleries throughout Canada, United States, and Mexico.

Many of my paintings belong to both corporate and private collections throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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