Artists by last name: A and B.

Daniel Aïram

French artist born in Lyon in 1958, he began his career in graphic arts before working in a print shop until 1982. From that year onward, he devoted himself entirely to his artistic practice. He now lives and works in Nice, on the French Riviera.

His first exhibitions took place in Lyon, his hometown. Starting in the 2000s, his works began circulating in other cities such as Paris, Strasbourg, and across Europe. Over time, his practice evolved: printmaking, photography, multimedia art on wood, video… Airam explores a wide range of media, always guided by a deep aesthetic sensibility and a strong sense of formal discipline.

His work has captivated an international audience. He exhibits regularly in France, but also in the United States, Japan, and several European countries, asserting a personal and ever-evolving artistic approach.

ÉLISABETH ANDREANI

Élisabeth Andreanie is a French-born printmaker who studied at the Beaux-Arts in France, where she completed a major in printmaking. It was during her studies that she met Alain Piroir, with whom she shared a deep passion for the art of engraving. In 1975, they opened their first printmaking studio together in Paris, marking the beginning of a long artistic and collaborative journey.

As a committed pioneer, Élisabeth Andreanie developed a refined printmaking practice rooted in technical mastery and artistic sensitivity. Her work stands out for its balance between artisanal precision and personal expression, drawing from European traditions while offering a unique perspective.

She is also the mother of Agathe Piroir.

nathalie aplemAN

Born in Montreal, is a multidisciplinary artist who has been based in Quebec’s Eastern Townships for many years. She holds a graduate degree in contemporary art practices from the University of Sherbrooke. Her work combines cyanotype, gum bichromate, analog and digital photography, as well as crochet and embroidery, creating poetic pieces that explore the connections between nature, time, and memory.

She uses locally gathered plants and flowers to produce photograms on expired photographic paper. Before fading naturally, the images are scanned and digitally reworked, highlighting the cycle of decomposition and the visual transformation of living matter. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries and museums in Quebec and Europe.

Her artistic approach is meticulous, poetic, and environmentally engaged, inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship with nature, imagery, and the passage of time.

julie arkinson

Julie Arkinson, originally from Quebec, earned a degree in visual arts from Concordia University in 1997. Based in Montreal, she works in painting and drawing on paper using oil, charcoal, and pastel. Her artistic practice explores themes of time, its cycles, and the body as a vessel for memory and thought. She has exhibited multiple series such as “Entre-deux-Mondes,” “Déjà-vu,” “Trajectoire imaginaire du temps,” “Deuils,” “Éphémérides,” “Corps de mémoire,” and “Départs.” Her work reflects deep concerns with memory and temporality and is included in both private and public collections in Quebec. In 2025, she was awarded the Loto-Québec Prize for the eco-responsible approach of the BIECTR Biennial. Her pieces emphasize the interplay between the body, memory, and time through a profoundly introspective visual approach.

Claude arsenault

Artiste montréalaise reconnue pour son engagement en faveur des pratiques écoresponsables en arts imprimés. Elle a exposé ses œuvres à Montréal (Maison de la culture du Plateau, galerie Joyce Yahouda), à Toronto (galerie John B. Aird), en France (Biennale de Sarcelles) et en Colombie-Britannique (Okanagan Print Triennial). Elle a aussi réalisé des résidences à Lafayette (Louisiane) et à Venise.

Membre de plusieurs centres d’artistes (Arprim, L’Imprimerie, Atelier Circulaire, Sagamie), elle a enseigné au Collège Dawson et poursuit aujourd’hui sa recherche à L’Imprimerie à Montréal.

Sa pratique combine estampe, livre d’artiste, sculpture et installation. Inspirée par les phénomènes hivernaux et l’espace urbain, elle transforme la photographie à travers les procédés imprimés. Dans ses œuvres récentes, elle agit comme archiviste, recontextualisant des images actuelles ou historiques pour offrir une lecture renouvelée des arts imprimés.

francis bacon

Francis Bacon was born in 1909 in Dublin, Ireland. He grew up both in Ireland and the United Kingdom where he spent most of his adult life. Widely renowned for his portraits and depictions of the human figure, Bacon is undoubtedly one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. Both classical and modern influences converge in his paintings which present visceral depictions of physicality combined with a powerful, often angst-ridden, psychological component.

His work, received with both unease and acclaim in the early forties, would later be purchased by many major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Gallery in London. In 1954, Bacon shared the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale with artists Lucian Freud and Ben Nicholson. By the 1970’s and 1980’s major exhibitions and retrospectives of Bacon’s work were being presented in France, Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, Japan, the USA and the USSR. Francis Bacon died in 1992 while on a visit to Madrid, Spain.

Julius baltazar

Born in Paris in 1949, Julius Baltazar is a French artist whose talent was recognized early by Salvador Dalí, who took the young artist under his wing and encouraged him to pursue an artistic path.

Baltazar’s work blends printmaking, ink drawing, and Arlequin pencil, creating a hybrid space between engraving and painting. Deeply influenced by literature, he has maintained a close relationship with poetry, having illustrated over three hundred books of verse throughout his career.

His work reveals a sensitive universe shaped by texture, language, and gesture, where the artist’s hand is ever-present. Baltazar’s art is part of many major public collections in Canada, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, and France, reflecting both his international recognition and the unique voice of his visual language.

Alain Bar

Born in 1947, he is a French printmaker specializing in intaglio, with a passion for the themes of sports and jazz. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Valence, he discovered jazz there—a key source of his artistic inspiration. A former athlete, he expresses the beauty of movement in his art, stripping his subjects down to pure lines that capture the gestural energy of the athlete.

He masters several techniques—etching, aquatint, burin, and drypoint—demonstrating his expertise in the alchemy of engraving on metal plates. He has received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix de France for Visual Arts, the Henri-Desgrange Prize, and honors at the Barcelona and Madrid Biennials, making him one of the leading figures in contemporary printmaking.

Founder of the publishing house Parole gravée, he creates and publishes high-quality artist books, combining his prints with texts and poetry. Today, he is regarded as a major master craftsman and has trained many young artists, leaving a lasting mark on the world of printed art.

Monique Rey-barthelemy

French printmaker born and based in Lyon. Trained at the Beaux‑Arts in her hometown, she works with a variety of traditional printing techniques and is a member of several artist-run centres. Her artistic world unfolds through abstract, subtly textured prints, sometimes reminiscent of fine metalwork due to their visual richness. Often working in small paper formats, her pieces reveal blurry, enigmatic forms—fragments of landscapes, crumpled fabrics, interior scenes—that float between conscious perception and dreamlike memory. She has exhibited in various venues, especially in Lyon, where the gentle depth and poetic resonance of her work have been widely recognized. Her timeless and contemplative approach gives each print a quiet, poetic stillness.

Bonnie Baxter

Bonnie Baxter is an interdisciplinary artist born in 1946 in Texarkana, Texas, and based in Quebec since 1972. She founded Atelier du Scarabée in Val-David in 1982 and was one of the founding members of Atelier de l’Île. Holding a master’s degree in visual arts, she also taught for many years in Concordia University’s print media program.

Her artistic practice spans traditional printmaking, sculpture, installation, video, and image projection. She is known for bold, visually layered, and socially engaged works that address pressing ecological and societal themes. Her iconic series RatKind explores interspecies relations through a lens that is both dystopian and utopian.

Bonnie Baxter has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia, in numerous galleries, museums, and international biennials. She has received several awards in recognition of her contributions to contemporary art and her lasting influence on the Quebec art scene.

michel beAUCAGE

Michel Beaucage is a painter and printmaker born in Montreal in 1958. He holds a master’s degree in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal and received specialized training in carborundum printmaking in Paris. His artistic approach blends abstraction and figuration, often drawing inspiration from nature, architecture, and Asian art traditions.

He developed a unique technique combining rice paper and acrylic paint, producing transparent, delicate effects reminiscent of glass or ceramic glaze. His works are often enriched with collaged materials such as fabric, paper, and engraved fragments.

For over 25 years, he has exhibited regularly in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. His practice has evolved through travel and cultural influences, and his works are now part of numerous public and private collections, reflecting his significant contribution to the contemporary art scene.

hans beLLmer

Hans Bellmer was born in Kattowitz, then part of the German empire, on the 13rd of March 1902. The artist is best known for creating life-sized sculptures of erotic dolls. Historians also consider him a surrealist photographer.

His dolls are a statement on the cult of the female body, a popular theme in Nazi Germany. However, his response was to cut up, mutilate and present the dolls in unconventional poses. The Nazis declared his work as «degenerate» and he was forced to leave the country. He relocates to Paris where his work is accepted especially by the surrealists who appreciate the themes of sexuality and feminine beauty.

Bellmer spends the rest of his life in Paris and replaces doll making with etchings and erotic drawings. He also explores printmaking, photography and painting while retaining the theme of explicit sexuality, especially in young women.

Carol Bernier

Carol Bernier is a Quebec painter who lives and works in Montreal, where she has established herself on the art scene through the expressive power of her gesture and the richness of her palette. A graduate in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal, she began exploring abstraction and movement in her painting in the 1990s.

Her large-format canvases reveal chromatic impulses that evoke both nature and memory, creating a subtle dialogue between space and material. The spontaneity of the stroke, the rhythm of color, and the texture of the surface lie at the heart of her artistic approach.

Her deeply sensitive and open-ended works are exhibited regularly in Montreal, across Canada, and internationally. Carol Bernier holds a distinctive place in contemporary Quebec art through her ability to convey raw emotion through pictorial gesture.

 elmyna bouchard

Born in 1965 in Jonquière (Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec), is a printmaker and visual artist based in Montreal since the 1990s. She completed a bachelor's degree in visual arts at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in 1988. Her artistic approach is rooted in refined printmaking, inspired by childlike drawing, and plays with the poetic staging of simple images where chance plays a central role.

She has received numerous awards, including the Monique and Robert Parizeau Foundation Prize in 2003, as well as distinctions from the Loto-Québec Printmaking Competition (2000), the International Biennial of Trois-Rivières (2001), and the Great Canadian Printmaking Competition (2002). In 2025, she was awarded the Loto-Québec Prize for the eco-responsible approach of the BIECTR Biennial. Her works are part of several public and private collections, including the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Hydro-Québec, Loto-Québec, Cirque du Soleil, and major Canadian banks.

For over two decades, Elmyna has been exploring the possibilities of printmaking and drawing, including recent projects that incorporate fabric as a form of drawing.

Louis-pierre bougie

Louis-Pierre Bougie was a Quebec printmaker and painter born in Trois-Rivières in 1946. He studied in France at Atelier Champfleury and trained with master printers Lacourière and Frélaut. His time in Europe deeply influenced his artistic approach, blending technical mastery with poetic sensitivity.

He played an active role in the development of contemporary printmaking in Quebec, opening the doors of his private Montreal studio to artists from around the world and fostering artistic exchange. He was also a founding member of Atelier Circulaire, a creation and exhibition center dedicated to print media.

His work, which lies at the intersection of abstraction and figuration, is included in numerous public and private collections in both Canada and France. He received several awards in recognition of his talent and his contribution to the growth and recognition of printmaking as a major art form.

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1994 | 37 x 106 cm | Chine collé, aquatint and burin

Untitled 17

2008 | 54 x 101 cm | Aquatint

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2008 | 54 x 101 cm | Aquatint

Paul Bourgault

Paul Bourgault is a visual artist from Quebec known for the originality of his approach, which combines traditional techniques with contemporary aesthetics. A graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal, he has developed a pictorial and graphic practice in which materiality plays a central role.

His work explores themes of memory, territory, and identity through a process that merges expressive gesture with thoughtful composition. Since the early 2010s, he has exhibited regularly in galleries across Canada and internationally, gaining the attention of both the public and art critics.

Bourgault’s work is characterized by its visual sensitivity, rich textures, and powerful contrasts, creating pieces that are both raw and refined. Through his unique voice and sustained artistic commitment, he contributes to the vitality of the Quebec art scene and its presence on the global stage.

mel boyaner

Mel Boyaner (1924–2020) was a Montreal-based artist renowned for his work in lithography and painting. He studied in Montreal and in London, where he received a scholarship to further his printmaking practice. Beginning in 1969, he taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal, playing a key role in training several generations of artists in the field of print media.

Active in the development of contemporary printmaking in Quebec, he was one of the founding members of Atelier Circulaire, a printmaking creation center in Montreal. His work, exhibited in numerous galleries and institutions across the country, stands out for its exploration of the balance between form, space, and color.

A major exhibition was dedicated to him in 1989, highlighting his works on paper and his exploration of the tensions between geometry and abstraction. His career combined artistic creation, teaching, and long-term engagement in the arts.

Gilou Brillant

Gilou Brillant, born in 1935 in Essertines, France, is a renowned printmaker known for her powerful and refined abstract compositions. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in several prominent studios, she developed a unique artistic practice focused on printmaking from the 1970s onward.

Working primarily with aquatint and carborundum, she creates richly textured works with strong contrasts, often evoking underwater landscapes or evolving organic forms. Her art is characterized by technical precision and expressive freedom.

Gilou Brillant has exhibited in major cities around the world, including Paris, Lyon, Brussels, New York, Washington, São Paulo, and La Paz. Her works are included in various collections and continue to attract the attention of collectors and art critics alike. She holds a significant place in the field of contemporary printmaking.

guillaume brisson-darveau

Guillaume Brisson-Darveau is a multidisciplinary artist from Quebec. A graduate of Université Laval, he currently lives in Montreal, where he is pursuing doctoral studies in art at UQAM. His artistic practice explores concepts of space, perception, and illusion through installations, sculptures, and immersive environments.

He has exhibited his work in Canada and internationally, including in Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, Spain, Chile, and Japan. Notable exhibitions include his participation at the Museo de Arte de Santiago and the NEoN Digital Arts Festival.

Guillaume Brisson-Darveau has also taken part in numerous artist residencies both in Canada and abroad, including Atelier Mondial in Switzerland and the Banff Centre. His evolving practice reflects a sustained interest in hybrid forms and sensory experiences within space.

Anne brochu lambert

Anne Brochu Lambert is a Canadian artist known for her richly textured and poetic works, often inspired by nature and the Quebec landscape. A graduate in visual arts, she explores themes such as memory, the passage of time, and the interconnection between humans and the environment.

Her practice is rooted in mixed media techniques, combining collage, ink, natural pigments, and found objects. Passionate about creative recycling, she transforms ordinary materials into unique and expressive compositions.

Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada and abroad and has received several awards recognizing her sensitive and innovative approach. Through her art, she invites viewers to pause, contemplate, and reflect on the fragility of the natural world and the human place within it.

kittie bruneau

Kittie Bruneau (née Marguerite Bruneau) est une peintre et graveuse québécoise née à Montréal le 12 octobre 1929 et décédée à Calgary le 6 avril 2021. Elle a étudié à l’École des beaux-arts de Montréal de 1946 à 1949, puis au Montreal School of Arts sous la direction de Ghitta Caiserman-Roth. En 1950, elle s’installe à Paris, danse avec les Ballets de Rouen et de Maurice Béjart, et fréquente l’Académie Julian, où elle développe un style influencé par le surréalisme et le post-automatisme.

En 1961, elle s’établit sur l’Île Bonaventure, en Gaspésie, où le paysage marin et l’isolement nourrissent durablement son imaginaire. Son œuvre, gestuelle et colorée, met en scène des oiseaux, poissons, figures hybrides et éléments fantastiques. Elle a aussi collaboré à plusieurs livres d’artistes avec des poètes tels que Leonard Cohen, Michaël La Chance et Françoise Bujold. Membre de l’Académie royale des arts du Canada, elle est représentée dans les grandes collections muséales du pays.

Artists BY LAST NAME : c AND d.

françois calvat

François Calvat, born in 1926 in Nice, is a contemporary French artist who lives and works in the Vercors region of southeastern France. Since the 1960s, he has focused on sculpture and assemblage, using reclaimed materials such as charred wood, lead, zinc, rubber, and charcoal. He manipulates these elements through folding, welding, gluing, and riveting, creating works that explore the relationship between material, light, and gesture.

His visual language is defined by contrasts and tensions, where the new meets the old, revealing an aesthetic rooted in the traces of use and memory, both industrial and rural. He has exhibited in Paris and elsewhere, presenting works shaped by fire, axes, and time. His art embodies a contemporary vision grounded in the poetic transformation of everyday materials.

jorge camacho

Jorge Camacho (1934–2011) was a Cuban surrealist painter and printmaker, born in Havana on January 5, 1934, and passed away in Paris on March 30, 2011. Initially studying law, he abandoned it in 1952 to fully dedicate himself to painting. Self-taught, he was quickly drawn to surrealism and avant-garde artistic movements.

He moved to Paris in 1959, where he formed a close relationship with sculptor Agustín Cárdenas and met André Breton in 1961, joining the Surrealist group soon after. His work, steeped in occult themes, alchemy, and a rich symbolic bestiary, is marked by a vivid palette and mysterious, poetic imagery.

Camacho exhibited widely across Europe and Latin America, including the Salon de Mai in Havana. He also illustrated works by surrealist poets and translated literary texts into French. His visionary and metaphysical approach to surrealism earned him a lasting place in 20th-century art history.

Audrey Casalis

Audrey Casalis, born in 1995, is a young French visual artist recognized for her abstract compositions and vibrant use of color. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she draws inspiration from both European pictorial tradition and contemporary techniques in collage and digital media. Her works explore the boundary between figuration and non-figuration, while tackling social and ecological themes. Since 2017, she has regularly exhibited in various French and international galleries, attracting the attention of a diverse audience. Committed to cultural accessibility, she also leads introductory art workshops for young audiences, sharing her expertise and passion for creativity.

cassandra

Michelle Bertaux, known by her artist name Cassandra, is a visual artist recognized for her delicate works, often created using printmaking or engraving techniques. Currently serving as Head of Acquisitions for the Maisons Victor Hugo, she combines her artistic expertise with a strategic vision to enrich the museum’s collection. As an artist, Cassandra explores abstract landscapes where organic shapes and the layering of textures and colors create a sense of movement and depth.

Her works, such as the one presented here, stem from a reflection on nature and the interaction between matter and light. The bluish tones and finely engraved details evoke an atmosphere that is both ethereal and grounded in the natural world, where silent contemplation invites the viewer to immerse themselves in the complexity of forms. This connection between nature and abstraction reflects a quest for essence that is both poetic and sensory.

Today, through her role at the Maisons Victor Hugo, she contributes to highlighting works of art while continuing her creative journey—subtly blending her artistic craftsmanship with a passion for heritage preservation.

Bernard Chambon

Bernard Chambon, a French engraver and visual artist, was awarded the prestigious title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France in copper engraving in 2000. Since the early 1990s, he has exhibited his work regularly, which is now part of various public and private collections in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, and Canada. Affiliated with several specialized printmaking workshops, he combines traditional engraving techniques (etching, aquatint) with more contemporary approaches. His practice examines gesture and material, while exploring memory and time. Renowned for the delicacy of his line, he remains a highly regarded figure in the world of printmaking.

deborah chapman

Deborah Chapman, born in 1951 in Argentina, lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. She earned a bachelor's degree in visual arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1990 and later specialized in printmaking in France, particularly in Paris, as well as in various Canadian art institutions. In 1998, she completed a diploma in computer graphics in Montreal.

Her work, both sensitive and striking, blends traditional printmaking with digital drawing and poetic visual installations. She creates a rich, metaphorical language filled with stylized animals and dreamlike forms. Her artistic world explores themes of memory, imagination, and the deep connection between humans and the natural world.

Deborah Chapman has exhibited in numerous countries, including Argentina, Canada, Russia, Spain, Poland, Indonesia, Ukraine, and Bulgaria. She has received several international awards and taken part in artist residencies in China and Canada.

xavier charbonneau

Xavier Charbonneau Gravel is devoted to printmaking, specializing in mezzotint, a highly demanding form of intaglio known for its rich tonal range. He holds a diploma in scenography from the National Theatre School of Canada and has worked on major theatrical productions in Quebec and abroad.

He joined Atelier Circulaire after completing a year-long artist residency there in 2015. He is also affiliated with Denmark’s Fyns Grafiske Værksted, where he completed a short residency in 2019 and later led a mezzotint workshop in the summer of 2020.

His carefully printed works have been exhibited in Quebec, Japan, and Denmark. They are part of the collections of Tama Art University in Tokyo and the National Archives of Quebec. He received a special mention from a selection committee for his piece titled L’homme éléphant.

 Claire Cloutier

Originally from Quebec City, this artist grew up in a world shaped by art and creativity. Through experimentation and observation, she developed a sensitive approach focused on light, contrast, and the vibration of forms. In her prints, intuitive gesture and imagination take center stage, expressing an inner quest and a freedom of expression rooted in dream and emotion.

paul cloutier

Paul Cloutier is a Quebec-born painter and printmaker from Montmagny. He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Québec and continued his training in specialized studios in the Netherlands and California. He is widely recognized as a master of collography, a printmaking technique he uses to produce luminous, atmospheric works.

With a degree in fine arts, Cloutier has taken part in numerous international workshops and has received several awards and grants for his artistic excellence. His works are held in major public and private collections, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Cabinet des estampes, and even the Louvre in Paris.

A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Paul Cloutier lives and works in Montreal, where he continues to pursue a dedicated and inspired artistic practice.

naomi cook

Naomi B. Cook, born January 7, 1982 in Etobicoke, Canada, lives and works between Montreal and Paris. She studied Art and Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal and earned a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from ESADHaR in Le Havre, France.

Her artistic practice explores the hidden narratives of Big Data through poetic and sensory visualization. Using drawing, printmaking, sound, and spatial installation, she translates complex data sets into immersive environments. In her project “Data Suite,” for example, each dataset was embodied in a common hotel room object, making abstract information tangible. Her work bridges philosophy, digital culture, and the material world.

Naomi has exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, Arles, and Paris, and participated in cross-residency programs between Quebec and France. She was recognized at the Papier Art Fair and is represented by Christie Contemporary. Since 2014, she has also been an active member of Centre Clark.

frédéric cordier

Frédéric Cordier, born in 1985 in Montreal, is a Swiss-Canadian visual artist who lives and works between Lausanne and Montreal. He holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from ECAL (École cantonale d’art de Lausanne), where he developed a visual language rooted in post-industrial imagery and functional architecture.

His work includes monumental linocuts, drawings on perforated metal, sculptural wallpapers, and paintings. Through the repetition of geometric patterns, his art creates analog visualizations of the digital age, oscillating between abstraction and representation. His pieces often evoke mechanical and urban landscapes infused with raw poetry.

Cordier received the Ernest Manganel Prize in 2008 and the Leenaards Cultural Fellowship in 2011. He has exhibited extensively in Canada and Europe, notably at Galerie Laroche/Joncas in Montreal, the Papier Art Fair, the Swiss Art Awards, and in collaboration with URDLA in Lyon.

fernando costa

Fernando Costa, born in 1970 in Sarlat-la-Canéda, France, is a self-taught French sculptor-welder known for his striking assemblages made from recycled road signs. In 1998, he left the hospitality industry to fully dedicate himself to art. Using discarded traffic panels, he cuts, welds, and reassembles them into colorful, bold artworks that balance abstraction and figuration.

His first solo exhibition in Paris in 2000 marked the beginning of his artistic career. In 2013, he was selected to design the official Art Car for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, joining a prestigious group of artists that includes César and Arman. His works have been featured in galleries across France, including Paris, and in iconic spaces like the Sainte-Eugénie Crypt in Biarritz. Costa’s art is rooted in urban culture and recycling, expressing both precision and emotion through industrial materials.

marie-france cournoyer

Marie-France Cournoyer holds both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has been the recipient of multiple research and creation grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She regularly exhibits solo in Quebec, particularly in Montreal, and takes part in group exhibitions internationally, including in Brooklyn, New York and in Chicago.

Her artistic practice is intimate and poetic, centered around textiles, small relics, threads, ribbons, and jewelry. These objects are arranged as narrative fragments exploring themes of loss, absence, and personal memory. Fabric becomes a metaphor for identity, transition, or disguise, bridging the everyday with symbolic and poetic meaning.

Her work engages with tensions between stability and collapse, dream and nightmare, drift and assertion, crafting a visual world that is delicate, symbolic, and emotionally resonant.

cécile crest

Cécile Crest is a printmaker based in L’Arbresle, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. She primarily works with copper etching and lost-plate multicolor printing techniques. Her pieces are known for their energy, brightness, and emotional depth, creating a poetic balance between fullness and emptiness, movement and stillness, optimism and introspection.

Since 2010, she has opened her studio to the public for printmaking demonstrations and personal exhibitions, such as "Bella Vita" and "Blue Note". She regularly takes part in art fairs and exhibitions in France and abroad, including shows in Romania, Denmark, and Brazil. Her practice incorporates mixed media: including ink, collage, paint, and pencil, to create abstract compositions inspired by movement, light, and inner landscapes.

Jean-Michel Cropsal

Jean‑Michel Cropsal was born in Morocco and spent his childhood there before moving to France, where he studied and worked in theatre, designing sets and costumes. In 1975, he emigrated to Canada, continuing his work in theatre and dance while also designing and producing garments. At the same time, he maintained a personal visual arts practice that includes drawing, painting, and printmaking. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada, France, and Morocco.

He has been a member of Atelier Circulaire for over twenty years, where he continues to explore traditional printmaking techniques. In 2021, he presented a series of prints and collages that combined aquatint, etching, and drypoint, reflecting a dialogue between ancient and modern calligraphic forms. His practice bridges cultural memory, theatrical aesthetics, and contemporary visual exploration.

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2017 | 27 x 38 cm | Aquatint, etching and drypoint | 7 prints

lilianne daigle

Lilianne Daigle is a Quebec-based artist specializing in miniature digital printmaking. She took part in the 2013 exhibition “A Vision of the Future” at the 8th International Digital Miniprint Biennial. Her work was also shown in “Impressions Circulaires 2004” at Engramme in Quebec City and “PassArt 2000” at the Rouyn-Noranda Exhibition Centre.

Her prints are included in several public and private collections, including the National Bank of Canada, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BANQ), Investors Group, and in publications by Transcontinental.

She studied at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, Collège Inter-Dec, the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montreal, and George Brown College in Toronto. She trained under several prominent printmakers, including Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Talleen Hacikyan, Evelyn Klein, Donna Miro, and Pierre Tougas.

stéphan daigle

Stéphan Daigle, born in Montreal in 1951, is a visual artist, poet, and philosopher whose career took off in the 1980s through his work in illustration. His art has been recognized internationally, receiving numerous awards and is part of both public and private collections.

Since 2005, he has focused on producing prints, paintings, sculptures, and digital works. His visual language often combines intricate linear drawings layered over expressive and gestural backgrounds. Deeply poetic and symbolic, his approach explores the interconnectedness between humanity and the natural world, while building bridges across cultures and shared imaginaries.

Through artist residencies, notably in Vaudreuil-Dorion, he has created large-scale installations inspired by the intelligence of living systems and Quebec’s landscapes. His art, rooted in a holistic worldview, invites reflection, wonder, and dialogue.

 Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí is a painter, printmaker and sculptor of Spanish nationality, who was born in 1904 and died in 1989. He is one of the best known representatives of surrealism, to which he became associated in the 1920s, on the advice of Joan Miró. After an American period, during World War II, he returned to Spain in 1949 and remained there until his death. Excluded from the surrealist movement, he moved closer to Catholicism and developed an approach he called "corpuscular mysticism". The recurring themes in his work include sexuality, dreams, religion and his wife Gala, who was his muse for a long time.

olivier debré

Olivier Debré (1920–1999), born in Paris, was a key figure of lyrical abstraction in France. Coming from an intellectual family, his father Robert was a renowned pediatrician, and his brother Michel served as Prime Minister. Debré studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts and history at the Sorbonne before fully dedicating himself to painting in the 1940s.

A visit to Picasso’s studio in 1941 was a turning point that led him toward abstraction. In the 1950s, he developed his “signes-personnages,” which evolved into “signes-paysages” in the 1960s, works recognized for their broad swaths of color and expressive brushwork.

He also designed stage sets for institutions such as the Shanghai Opera, the Hong Kong Opera, and the Comédie-Française. His paintings are held in numerous major public collections, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and museums across Europe and North America.

madeline deriaz

Madeline Deriaz is a visual artist based in Saint-Camille, in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, since 1999. Born into a family of Swiss photographers, she discovered a passion for drawing during her teenage years. She studied at the Decorative Arts and Fine Arts schools in Geneva, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1968 and a master’s in 1970. She moved to Quebec in 1993 and undertook several academic programs, including doctoral research at the Université de Montréal focusing on art and aging.

Since 2008, she has resumed her full-time artistic practice and has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across Quebec, particularly in Saint-Camille, Sherbrooke, and Coaticook, as well as internationally in Switzerland, Thailand, Belgium, and Spain. Her 2010–2011 project “From Spring to Spring” featured 365 small daily creations inspired by nature and the everyday. Her work blends drawing, watercolor, collage, digital print, and photography, reflecting ongoing themes of water, memory, and the natural world.

frédéric desaulniers

Frédéric Desaulniers, born in 1979 in St-Hubert, Quebec, has been practicing printmaking since 1996. He is an active member of Atelier Circulaire in Montreal and the Quebec Printmakers Council.

As a specialist in animal art, he creates highly detailed and realistic works that celebrate the beauty and diversity of African wildlife. His technical mastery of mezzotint and drypoint allows for a subtle rendering of textures, capturing the softness of fur and the depth of shadows with precision.

His artworks are part of several public and private collections in Quebec. He regularly exhibits his prints in contemporary printmaking venues, including the Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir in Montreal. Through his refined and dedicated approach, Desaulniers contributes significantly to the presence of representational engraving within the Quebec art scene.

isabelle desjardins

Isabelle Desjardins, born in 1948 in Chicoutimi (now Saguenay), is a Quebec printmaker whose work is part of the collection at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Her practice combines drawing, drypoint on copper, and oil painting, balancing spontaneous gesture with technical precision.

Her artistic universe is composed of imagined, contemplative landscapes. Through her use of texture and subtle line, she creates quiet atmospheres that contrast with the fast pace of contemporary life.

Based in Montreal, she has been a longtime member of Atelier Circulaire and plays an important role in the promotion of contemporary printmaking in Quebec. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. One of her significant works, “Blessure bleue” (2003), recently garnered attention during a specialized auction dedicated to print-based art.

CYNTHIA DINAN-Michell

Cynthia Dinan-Mitchell, born in 1977 in Quebec City, is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist living and working there. She holds two Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees—one from Bishop’s University and the other from Concordia University (2002)—and a Master’s in Visual Arts from Laval University (2007).

Her practice spans painting, screenprinting, ceramics, sculpture, and installation. She draws on influences including Baroque, 17th-century Dutch still life, chiaroscuro, Japanese and Western cinema, and printmaking traditions. She has completed residencies at Canadian centers such as Imago (Moncton), Sagamie (Alma), and Zocalo (Longueuil), as well as internationally at BASIS (Germany), Warringah (Australia), BACC (Thailand), and Frans Masereel (Belgium).

She has exhibited across Canada—including in Montreal, Quebec City, and Jonquière—and participated in major events such as Manif d’art 2017 and Orange5 (2015). Her work is held in public collections including the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the cities of Montreal and Longueuil, and the Desjardins Group.

albert dumouchel

Albert Dumouchel (1916–1971), born in Bellerive, Quebec, was a major figure in the development of modern printmaking in Quebec. In the 1940s, he taught graphic arts at the Séminaire de Valleyfield and the Institute of Graphic Arts in Montreal, where he founded a nationally recognized printmaking studio.

He studied engraving in Montreal and later trained in etching and lithography in Paris. He established the printmaking department at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and served as its director from 1960 to 1969, just before its integration into UQAM.

A multidisciplinary artist (painter, photographer, musician), he was deeply involved in the Montreal surrealist movement, signing the Prisme d’yeux manifesto in 1948 and publishing Les Ateliers d’arts graphiques between 1947 and 1951. In 1955, he received a UNESCO grant for research in Europe. He represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1960, joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 1964, and was awarded the Centennial Medal in 1967. His works are held in major collections in Quebec, Canada, and abroad.

pierre durette

Originally from Causapscal in the Matapedia Valley, Pierre Durette is a Quebec-based artist with a bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. He gained early recognition during his studies, winning the Grand Prix Albert-Dumouchel in 2004 and the Projet Insertion award from Atelier Graff in 2005.

His work has been exhibited in both Quebec and Ontario, including at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Power Plant Gallery in Toronto. His artistic practice combines technical precision with conceptual sensitivity, exploring the relationship between image, memory, and materiality.

In 2009, he received a research and creation grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. He was also awarded the Marcel-Bellerive Excellence Scholarship. Pierre Durette continues to develop a committed and thoughtful practice rooted in the contemporary discourse of print-based art.

 Monique Dussault

Monique Dussault (born in 1929 in Quebec City; died in 2023) was a Quebec printmaker renowned for her expertise in copper etching and wood relief printing. She was a professional member of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec.

Since 1979, she directed Éditions du Pôle, a publishing house dedicated to artist books and poem-posters, working closely with many poets she met throughout her career. Her work is characterized by an expressive sensitivity, blending printmaking with text and visual poetry.

She took part in several notable events, including “Image et souffle” and an exhibition on the theme of the sugar shack in Vaudreuil, reflecting her experiential and community-driven approach. Her prints are included in numerous public and private collections across Quebec, affirming her lasting impact on the field of contemporary printmaking.

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst is a painter, printmaker, collagist and sculptor, who was born in Brühl in 1891 and who died in Paris in 1976. He was first associated with the dadaist and surrealist movements, from 1919 to 1938, a period during which he befriended writers like Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard and André Breton, as well as artists like Joan Miró and Alberto Giacometti. He moved to the United States during World War II, where he lived until 1953. There he continued his work as an artist, particularly devoting himself to dripping, which heralded the work of Jackson Pollock. He returned to finish his life in France, where he devoted himself more to engraving, notably with Georges Visat in Paris, as well as at the Pierre Chave workshop in Vence.

1975 | 55 x 42 cm | Aquatint, etching and lithography | Editor Georges Visat

 Diane Etienne

Diane Etienne, born in 1993 in the Chartreuse Mountains, is a French printmaking artist based in Grenoble and the Auvergne‑Rhône‑Alpes region. She studied engraving at the École Estienne, then continued her training at the art schools of Angoulême and Marseille, where she focused on traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques.

She co-founded Atelier Mille Lieues, a mobile school for print arts, and is a member of the Super Coherent Printing Compagny, a ten-artist collective working collaboratively on printed artworks. In 2022, she developed the Fouilles project during an artist residency in Draguignan with Ateliers Médicis, creating a collective visual archive using wood engravings, collages, and printed images to explore landscape through poetic means.

Her work is nomadic and socially engaged, involving participatory projects in engraving, plant-based dyeing, monotype, and anthotype. She creates connections between local memory, printed gestures, and environmental storytelling.

Catherine Farish

Catherine Farish, born in 1951 in London, England, is a leading figure in contemporary printmaking in Quebec. She earned a diploma from the Montreal Museum School of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 1983. She later studied etching in Paris at Atelier Le Blanc.

Farish is a founding member of Atelier Circulaire in Montreal and has dedicated her career to developing innovative approaches to printmaking. Her work merges etching, collage, drawing, and experimental material processes. Known for her abstract compositions, her practice emphasizes gesture, intuition, and visual poetry.

She has held more than twenty-five solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows across North America, Europe, and Asia. Her works are held in several public collections, including the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Canada Council Art Bank. In 2008, she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

charlotte fauteux

Charlotte Fauteux (born in 1945 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a printmaker and painter who has lived in Montreal since the 1980s. A graduate of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, she is an honorary founding member of Atelier Circulaire, a prominent artist-run printmaking center known for its technical excellence and collaborative spirit.

Her work is grounded in intaglio techniques such as drypoint and aquatint, where textured backgrounds interact with linear motifs in a carefully balanced relationship between form and space. She refers to the drawn elements in her compositions as “subjects” in contrast to the labor-intensive backgrounds on which they unfold.

Active on the Montreal art scene for more than thirty years, she exhibits regularly in solo and group shows. She has taken part in projects like Master Printmakers, which highlight the role of printmaking within collective and intergenerational creative contexts.

Giuseppe Fiore favre

Giuseppe Fiore (1931–2015), born in Mola di Bari, Italy, immigrated to Canada in 1952 and settled in Montreal, where he lived until his death. He graduated from the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in the 1950s and taught there from 1962 to 1969, later joining the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) as a professor and artist-in-residence until 1989.

Fiore’s multidisciplinary work included oil painting, mixed media, and glass. His art is marked by abstract and poetic qualities, exploring the relationships between material, form, space, and introspection.

He exhibited extensively in Québec and abroad, including at the Osaka World Expo in 1969 and the Menton Biennale in 1972. His artworks are held in several major public collections, including the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.

vittorio fiorucci

Vittorio Fiorucci (1932–2008), born in Zara (now Zadar, Croatia), was a renowned poster artist based in Montreal and a naturalized Canadian citizen. After arriving in Montreal in 1951, he quickly emerged as a major figure in North American graphic design. By the 1960s, his work was celebrated for its vibrant colors, playful forms, and innovative approach to visual communication.

A true multidisciplinary artist, Fiorucci also worked as an illustrator, caricaturist, photographer, comic book creator, screenwriter, and educator. He is known for creating iconic images such as the Just for Laughs festival mascot Victor and the logo for Le Château stores.

Fiorucci’s art gained international acclaim. He received the Moebius Award in 1998 and several honors from Canadian design institutions. His posters are held in major museum collections, including the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A major retrospective was presented at the McCord Museum in 2015.

paula franzini

Paula Franzini, born in New York in 1970, is a Swiss-Canadian visual artist based in Quebec. Originally a particle physicist with a PhD in physics, she transitioned fully into the arts in the early 2000s.

She has lived in Montreal since 1997 and also spent time in Gatineau. She studied painting and drawing at Ar.Co in Lisbon and at the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts in Montreal. She was a member of Atelier Circulaire in Montreal for over fifteen years and served on its board. Since 2009, she has been an active member of Voix Visuelle in Ottawa, also sitting on its administrative council.

Her artistic practice blends digital printmaking, drawing, photography, and painting. Deeply influenced by science, especially mathematics, biology, and physics, her work transforms abstract systems into poetic visual language. She has exhibited in several international biennials, including the Douro Biennial in Portugal.

christiane frenay

Christiane Frenay, born on August 6, 1940, in France, has lived and worked in Montreal since 1970. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse from 1957 to 1962, later spending a decade in Tunisia before moving to Canada. Her artistic practice includes oil painting, collagraph printmaking, engraving, and sculpture.

She has been a member of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels (RAAV) and ARPRIM since 1985, highlighting her long-standing presence in Quebec’s printmaking scene. Frenay has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across Quebec, France, and Belgium, particularly in Montréal and Trois-Rivières.

Her work is characterized by subtle abstraction and rich textural surfaces, often exploring memory, silence, and form. Notable works include Traversée, Équilibre, Escaliers, and Rencontre, which reflect her commitment to visual poetry through material and gesture.

Marc Garneau

Marc Garneau, born in 1956 in Thetford Mines, is a renowned Quebec visual artist who has devoted more than forty years to printmaking and painting. Based in Montreal, where he lives and works, his artistic approach is marked by a careful exploration of materials, surfaces, and poetic abstraction.

Garneau’s work stands out for its delicate linework, layered textures, and the thoughtful integration of technique and emotion. He has held over sixty solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group shows both in Quebec and internationally.

His art is part of several major public collections, including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Over the course of his career, he has received multiple awards, most notably the Grand Prize of the Biennale du dessin, de l’estampe et du papier matière du Québec, which recognized the strength and consistency of his creative practice.

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2019 | 38 x 29 cm | Carborundum and drypoint

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2019 | 38 x 29 cm | Carborundum and drypoint

renée gélinas

Renée Gélinas is a Montreal-based visual artist who has been painting for over thirty years and turned to printmaking in 2011 when she joined Atelier Circulaire, Montreal’s prominent printmaking studio. A former landscape architect, she developed an abstract visual language based on layering, mutation, and reuse of printing plates—a practice informed by her connection to Quebec’s landscapes.

At Atelier Circulaire, she works in linocut, collagraph, and lithography, embracing processes that emphasize trace, print, and chance, exploring dynamic tensions between intuitive gesture and formal restraint. Her visual compositions build in layers, marrying repetition and disruption to generate unpredictable outcomes.

She divides her time between Montreal and Miscou in New Brunswick, where her art is rooted in local memory, community, and ecological reflection.

antoine giasson

Antoine Giasson is the founder, creator, and director of Atelier Galerie 2112, a self-managed visual arts gallery in Montreal founded in 2017, dedicated to showcasing high-quality visual art in a welcoming and professional environment. Through this initiative, he provides artists with a space for creation, exhibition, and public engagement, notably supporting traditional and figurative practices.

As an artist-entrepreneur, Giasson studied studio arts at Concordia University in Montreal and also at the University of Salamanca. In recent years, he has organized exhibitions and workshops at Atelier Galerie 2112, including a 2024 live model workshop funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The gallery emphasizes artist autonomy, offers training through drawing and painting workshops, and fosters connections with Montreal’s local art scene and beyond.

patrice giorda

Patrice Giorda, born in Lyon in 1952, is a French painter known for his timeless figurative work, marked by poetic freedom and introspection. First noticed in 1985 as part of the international selection of the 13th Paris Biennale, he has developed a symbolic visual universe that transcends landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, infusing them with memory and inner depth. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in the 1970s, Giorda combines classical rigor with bold chromatic exploration. He believes painting should unite radiant light and profound shadow, offering a space for inner reflection. He regularly exhibits in France and abroad, in cities such as Paris, Brussels, London, and Amsterdam. Since the 1980s, his work has been included in major public collections, including the Centre Pompidou. In 2022, the Fondation Renaud presented a major solo exhibition of his portraits titled "This Mysterious Face: Portraits and Figures".

 Raymonde Godin

Raymonde Godin, born in 1930 in Montreal and passed away in 2023, was a Quebec-born painter who lived and worked in France from 1954 onward, settling in the Drôme region. Her work, rooted in abstraction, reveals a strong sensitivity to color, form, and light, and is known for its poetic and lyrical qualities.

She took part in several major exhibitions, including the 2020 group exhibition at the Soulages Museum in Rodez focusing on women artists of the 1950s. In 2022, she was featured in a solo show at the Convergences gallery in Paris.

Her work is included in several major public collections, such as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Musée d’art moderne de Paris, and the National Gallery of Canada. Raymonde Godin remains a significant figure in the world of lyrical abstraction and Canadian art history.

Carlo Guasienti

Carlo Guarienti (1923–2023), born in Treviso, Italy, was an internationally acclaimed painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Beginning his artistic journey in the 1950s, he first explored realism, metaphysical art, and surrealism before developing a unique personal style blending abstraction, collage, relief, and engraving. Deeply rooted in Italian artistic tradition, his work displays a refined technical mastery across diverse media. Guarienti held exhibitions throughout Italy and major European art capitals including Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva, and London. His art enjoyed sustained recognition both in galleries and on the art market. His pieces are included in numerous public and private collections and have been sold through prominent auction houses until recent years. With a career spanning over seventy years, his eclectic and sensitive approach reflects a lifelong dedication to artistic expression and formal exploration.

 Guillaume

Pierre Guillaume is a typographer and master printer originally from France who settled in Montréal in the late 1950s. He married printmaker Janine Leroux in 1958, and together they founded the Sagitta studio-school, an artist-run typographic imprint central to Montréal's artistic print culture.

In the 1970s, he handled typographic design and printing for numerous artists’ books featuring original engravings by artists like Roland Giguère and Françoise Condamin. These limited-edition publications are now pillars of Québec's artists’ book heritage.

Known as a “compound typographer,” Pierre Guillaume played a structural role in disseminating the work of Montréal print artists while preserving artisanal techniques through his printing atelier.

valérie guimond

Valérie Guimond is a printmaking technician and lecturer in engraving and screenprinting at the Université du Québec à Trois‑Rivières, where she also mentors students in creative studio projects. She has been an active member of Atelier Presse Papier for over seventeen years and participates regularly in both solo and group exhibitions.

She has presented printmaking workshops and lectures in São Paulo (Brazil), Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico), and Liège (Belgium). Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions and biennials across Canada, Brazil, Belgium, China, Serbia, Denmark, Bulgaria, Mexico, and more. Some of her works are included in major collections, including the Triennial of Print ULUS collection in Belgrade.

Her artistic practice explores contemporary issues, particularly the hypersexualization of young girls. Using powerful imagery and mixed techniques—wood engraving, branding iron, and screenprinting—her work invites critical reflection and social awareness.