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Madeleine Turgeon provides an
expressive composition full of rhythm, where aesthetics is foremost, like a
mosaic that you can touch. The image takes shape in the canvas as if it is
broken up as on a stained glass. From its abstracted background arise
nature’s strength and fragility in all its forms. Through a range of topics
such as plants or beings, her paintings are eye-catchers with their intense
colours, brightness and arrangements of texture.
She
studied and worked in agronomy before training in visual arts at the Ontario
College of Art in Toronto. Synchronicity is applied. In a parallel
direction, she has worked simultaneously as a painter and designer in
graphic design and communications. Design and illustration have allowed her
to elaborate her drawing, colour and shape arrangements.
A
thoughtful approach has led her to exceed the realism of her drawing to
communicate more intuitively. Her spontaneous gesture is expressed by the
figurative and the abstract, which both often combines in her artwork. The
expression of emotions and feelings is more important for her than copying
of real subjects or solving materiel problems. Her abstract language is
expressed by simplifying the drawing and the layout plans. She distorts
reality with her imagination to bring out the essence and the emotion.
Neither passionate of figurative or abstract art, she follows her own lead
with a myopic eye. In this opposition, she allows herself the exchange
between both to stimulate her creativity.
Madeleine Turgeon is an
expressionist and a colourist with a great deal of sensitivity. She inspires
herself from the complexity of nature, as it is wild and untameable. She
continues to rediscover it through its permanence as well as its continuous
renewal. The mysterious and intangible connection between nature and poetry
provide her an inexhaustible inspiration.
As soon as she starts a
painting, spontaneity directs her brushstrokes. As a background, she applies
"modeling paste" to suggest movement. Then a collage of papers and tissues
serves as a starting point for her creation. She treats the drawing so that
it blends and disappears in the background. Working primarily with acrylic,
she simplifies the forms and breaks down the spectrum to obtain subtle
changes in brightness and contrast.
Her
insatiable appetite for research feeds her creative process. She is in
harmony with the life that surrounds her and her travels abroad. Her
experiences provide a blend of ideas, images and emotions that take form in
a pictorial representation of colourful and rhythmic strength. She favours
the series where her works is read like a book. Her theme series could take
several months to take shape and become a travelling exhibit. In her fourth
and latest solo corpus, she regroups thirty works titled La Concordance
des alignéss (Linear Harmony) scheduled for April 2008.
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