Born in 1963, Andrée Daviau, a Franco-Ontarian from Orleans (Ontario), doodles on all her hands can get on since childhood. Self-taught, she works with charcoal, ink, oils and soft pastels. Recently, she has concentrated her work on texture by exploring the mixing of materials (acrylic, oils, modeling paste and soft pastels). Simultaneously semi-abstract and semi-figurative, her artwork explores the place of humans in creativity, this concealed place, excluded from gazes in our universe that artificially reproduces nature. Andrée Daviau is guided by her subconscious and intuitively seeks to bring out, by the colors, the different layers of materials and by her strokes, quasi-organic, vein like, the human being. Inspired by her social and physical environment and by the literature on animal camouflage and stereograms (for example: Hiroshi Kunoh & Eiju Takaoki, 1994), her latest body of work challenges the visual senses of the observer, where he or she will discover a hidden human being in the artwork.  

Member of the Aylmer Arts Council and the Conseil régional de la culture de l’Outaouais, Andrée Daviau has participated and coordinated many visual art exhibits. She is currently President of Art au Pluriel (www.artaupluriel.com).  In 2006, she conceptualized and undertook a collective and educational project were she created a mural (8m²) from the artworks of the students and teachers of a primary school.  

Tel.: 819-639-1849
E-mail: adaviau@adaviau.com
Official website: www.adaviau.com