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.