Culture and images have always been an integral part of Bernard’ life, He grew up in a family where Quebec artists were well known; a meaningful art, an art perceived as a “vehicle” to go towards the other rather than a fancy for intellectuals.

Since childhood, he always pursued art. While he was a student in engineering at Université Laval, he did it through photography. Furthermore, he did it while supporting, his three children in their art projects. This playful family experience has triggered in him, a wish to expand, even more, into different alleys of explorations.

It is also necessary to mention the fascination that Bernard nurses for Ancient Egypt, their art that is, at the same time, so close to humans and to gods, has, maybe in spite of himself, brought him to compose his own way of expression, where words have a special place.

Drawn in lead pencil, these images so discreet and yet so affirmative, create an intimate journal (or if you prefer), a direct line by which its motion is a guide towards a certain revelation. This passage, born directly from his imagination and his life, reaches us as it suggests the heart behind the man. This way of his, has been his path used to reach his creativity. Just as the works of Henri Matisse, his semi figurative compositions are built little by little, just as the line of an arabesque.

For the last few years, acrylics have added color to his magic explorations. Amongst the new directions tried, he particularly likes the technique of painting on tissue paper. Therefore, Bernard’s approach does not fail to continuously grows and renews itself.

Due to a daily computer practice, his creation finds another expression within our most modern technology. In fact, his ability to navigate, (in which most of us would consider a digital labyrinth), suggests that he is a master of this new language of computers. In that sense, the recent emergence of his website is one more invitation to enter his fantastic world as well as that of other artists who have found a “just right” place to share in.

Enjoy your visit!

Louis Couture, at the occasion of a spring 2009 exhibition.

Contact
Bernard Lemieux www.artensoi.ca
ble@artensoi.ca
www.artensoi.ca/ble