stella sasseville

Originally from Lac-Saint-Jean, Stella Sasseville is a painter and printmaker whose career in the visual arts has flourished since the 1970s. Initially devoted to abstraction, she began in the mid-1980s to incorporate human or surreal figures into her canvases, often weaving narrative elements. Her time in Japan, studying with Toshi Yoshida (wood engraving) and Nanshi Kato (lithography), left a lasting influence: acrylics treated in translucent or opaque layers, recalling Japanese engraving and wash techniques. Cool tones in her work evoke the Far North, where she has frequently traveled. Inspired by encounters, journeys, and the Amerindian humor inherited from her father, she has always guarded her independence, remaining outside established art movements. While affinities with Automatism or American Abstract Expressionism can be seen, her work consistently asserts a unique freedom and artistic identity.