About
My career in visual arts, portraiture, sculpture, design and artistic direction of architectural trompe-l'oeil murals have given me great expertise and earned me the recognition of my peers.
But I had discovered clay when I was eleven. It was love at first sight that marked the start of an intense and constant relationship. At nineteen I was already making a living as a potter. Ingenuous, however, I also harbored at the time an idealized and romantic vision of art, which prompted me to quit my work to study at university. But my first passion had left an indelible mark. The relationship with clay, the making of unique pieces and the endless exploration of the alchemy of earth, water and fire is irreplaceable.
For twelve years, I stayed in Catalonia in a mini country house with a workshop. This is where I returned to my first love. I started with raku, at the medieval-style art school in Tortosa: Escola d'Art i Disseny. Now in the beautiful region of Kamouraska, the story continues.
Studies:
1986 Laval University, visual arts
2015 back to ceramics at the catalan art center of Tortosa
Exhibitions:
2006 Gallery 1225 in Montréal
2004 Gallery 1225 in Montréal
2003 Rouje in Québec city "Petites Métaphores"
1999 Palais Montcalm "Continuum Figuratif" (part two)
1998 Palais Montcalm: "Continuum Figuratif" (part 0ne)
1989 Anima G gallery, Québec
1988 Moss, Québec "Le Ciel des Peintures"
Galleries:
2006 paintings in Gallery Beauchamp in Québec city
2004 bronzes at Gallery 1225 in Montréal
2003-06 bronzes at Galerie Ars Vivesco in Québec city
2003-04 Galerie St-Dizier in Montréal
2005 Gallery Monkdogz in New-York
1999-2003 La galerie Internationale, Québec city
1986-87 Galerie Christin, Québec city
Other experiences and realisations:
2004-06 creation of a collection of statues and garden fountains, participation in the murals of Sherbrooke
2004 Collaboration for the second part of Murale Bowen in Seherbrooke
2003 Arstistic direction for Murale Bowen in Sherbrooke.
2002 Artistic direction for La Fresque Skinner in Sherbrooke.
2001 Artistic direction and coordination for La Fresque des Piliers 2 in Québec
2000 Artistic direction and coordination for La Fresque des Piliers 1 in Québec
1999 Painter for The Mural of Quebecers with Cité de la Création.
1997 Admission at the national bank of artists for the integration of arts in architecture
1990-95 Creation of Atelier Dufaux. Murals on command and teaching the techniques of "trompe-l’œil".
1993 Painting of the vault of Capitol Theater
1993-95 Teaching of the techniques of "trompe-l’œil", faux finish at: Atelier Dufaux
1985-87 writing of chronicles for the magazine Clin D’œil restoration works at the National Museum of Québec, confection of decors at Studio Triède in Montréal
1984- pastel and oil portraits on command
1979- 84 ceramist
Publications:
Newspapers:
Le Soleil, Le Journal de Québec, La Tribune, La Presse, the magazine Elle Québec, Décoration Chez Soi.
Radio:
Radio Canada, fm 93, CKRL fm
Television:
Radio Canada, Télé Québec, CFCF12, Quatre Saisons and TVA