Born in 1957 in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada.
Received degree in art (teaching) from the university of Quebec, in Chicoutimi.
Has been teaching art in high school since 1979.
Solo-exhibitions
2004: solo-exhibition at the gallery of La Prairie city, Quebec.
2003: solo-exhibition at the "Coop de solidarite Artistique", St-Jean, Quebec.
2003: solo-exhibition at the "Le Théâtre de Grand-Pré", L'Acadie, Quebec.
2001: solo-exhibition at Montreal, Cote-des-Neiges Comunity center.
2000: solo-exhibition at Boucherville city gallery.
2000: solo-exhibition at Chicoutimi cultural center of art.
1999: solo-exhibition at St-Luc city gallery.
1993: solo-exhibition at the expo-commerce of Haut-Richelieu Group-exhibitions
2004: membres exhibition of Art[O], Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que'bec, Canada
2004: #9 Art symposium of Haut Richelieu, Quebec, Canada
2004: Expo "Red like..." Gallery ART[O], St-Jean-Sur Richelieu, Quebec.
2004: Art Centre "La Maison Sous Les Arbres", Iberville.
2003: SYMPOSIUM D'ARTS du Haut Richelieu, Iberville,Quebec.
2003: Château Dufresne Montréal,Quebec.
2003: Expo contest of La Prairie, Quebec.
2002: Arts without borders, St-Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec.
2002: La Feria picturale du Quebec, St-Agathe Des Monts, Quebec.
2002: Expo membres of the "Coop de solidarite Artistique", St-Jean, Quebec
2002: The Castel of the Ducs de Duras, Aquitaine, France.
2001: Gallery North Country Cultural Center for the Art, Plattsburg, U.S.A
2001: Gallery Council of the arts for Clinton County., U.S.A
2001: Symposium FestivArt at Frelighsburg. Quebec.
2001: The Fine Art International show of Montreal. Quebec.
2001: Expo contest of La Prairie, Quebec.
2000: "Marché Bonsecours", Montréal.
2000: Galerie Z, Notre-Dame ouest, Montréal.
Honours, Awards, Events
* Jury member of the Expo contest of La Prairie. 2003
* Picture choose for be print on the wishing cards of M. Claude Bachand, federal deputy of St-Jean. 2003
* Gold medal at the Fine Art autumn International show of Montreal. 2002
* Administration Member of the Cooperative De solidarite Artistique et culturelle du Haut-Richelieu. 2002-3
* Member at "Cercle des Artistes Peintres et Sculpteurs du Quebec" 2002-4
* Represent Quebec at the "Art across the border", U.S.A 2001
* Participation at the Cultural days of Quebec, 2001-2003
* The "Moisson du frere Jerome" trophy 1998.
* 2 first prizes in sculpture, Chicoutimi 1977.
Artistic experience
Created the Ateliers Artifice .
Graphics for music album covers ( as for the singer Claude Dubois and others).
Graphics for kids Books covers.
Decorations for schools, plays and restaurants.
"Guide de Roussan", 2001 & 2002
Agenda "Plumes et Pinceaux", 2002.
Artist Painters Official Repertory, 1999
Cover Page , "Ma belle histoire d'adoption" Anne Leith, 1994.
Media Coverage at C.B.J. Radio Canada, Progres-Dimanche, Canada Francais 1998-2001
Artistic Development
I grew up in Chicoutimi surrounded by the love of art. When I was very young, I was introduced to works of art from local painters as Arthur Villeneuve, Rene Gagnon, Carette, J.H. Barette, Barbeau and especially the artist who had the most meaning for me, my mother. Curious by nature, I expressed myself in almost all the mediums stopping at acrylic that I love for its infinite range of possibilities.
For over fifteen years, I've devoted myself to teaching art. Through my teaching, I experiment with gestures, techniques and expressive approaches, helping young people to discover themselves and to reveal themselves through visual arts.
Then, around the age of forty, I was struck by the desire to produce and not only to help produce. For all these years, I produced very little for myself. I acquired all kinds of experience and at the same time a certain maturity. My soul demanded to be liberated. It became an urgent need, a kind of therapy… I didn't have to look very far to find my pictorial universe since it's within me, very close and asking only to be revealed.
My style, even though I don't like to label things, goes from expressionist-symbolism to spiritualism-surrealism . I wish to create and bring to life deep feelings and emotions on my canvases. In fact, I would like to paint the atmosphere of human experiences.
This is how I can describe the creation proccess. I combed and always painted by instinct, sensitivement and emotivement, sometimes the emotions are so intense that I have tears in the eyes... When I analyze my process of creation, I realize that I often begin with an idea or Image guide line in my head, it can be a subject from actuality , an emotion, a feeling etc. Then, I prepare my background, textures, set of colors etc. that's a first contact with my canvas. By doing this, I mediate on my subject ( more by the spiritual emotion it bring me than by the sketch and research symbolic system). It does not come always easily; I create the pigments, erases, start again, rotate, change things, take retreat, redraws... That takes several hours or days before I have some satisfaction, I need a certain fusion with my canvas. Then with certain level of meditation, I become very concentrate and the image immerge out on the canvas, my ideas are transposed in symbols corresponding to the message which I want to deliver and has my vision of the world in it. I complete with my artistic values .when I finished, it's a feeling of release...
As an example , my painting ( La vie a l'arrivee - The end of life ) I had just learned that my mother had cancer, it touched me so much and made me think about life. If you take a good look at this picture you will find a lot of symbols expressing my feelings at that time. . If you look attentively at the composition, you'll notice that it's in shape of a big "8", the symbol of infinity. For I believe life goes on for ever, it continues with your soul and in those that you left behind the ones you have influenced. That's why I have put a print of a hand (in yellow) behind the principal hand, it's a reference to the printed hands in the prehistoric caves. it reflects a shadow of what was left to humanity. As you can see, my paintings are very symbolic, therefore you need time to study them . my pictures are usually reflecting thoughts, feelings, and meditation... For me the purpose of my art it's not just for the beauty of it, it's even more for say something.
Diane Tremblay
This is a good annalistic article about my art works, by Oscar D'Ambrosio, original in Portuguese.
Oscar D'Ambrosioest journaliste, membre de l'Association bresilienne des
critiques d'Art et est egalement auteur de « Les pinceaux de Dieu : vie et
ouvrage du peintre na?f Waldomiro de Dieu (Edition Unesp).
Diane Tremblay et le dynamique de la vie
Shakespeare a deja ecrit qu'il existe beaucoup plus entre le ciel et la
terre que ce que l'esprit humain connait. Parodiant la dramaturgie anglaise,
on peut dire qu'entre le symbolisme et l'expressionnisme, il existe l'ouvre
de la canadienne Diane Tremblay, qui est pleine de nuances et par laquelle
defile une vision rapide de ses ouvres. Chacune d'elles est remplie
d'elements qui n?cessitent une attention particuliere.
Si le symbolisme est traditionnellement considere comme le pendant
artistique qui presume une certaine intention quant aux elements qui
composent une ouvre d'art et ce, dans le but de transmettre un message
determine, l'expressionnisme, lui, est generalement vu comme une force
motrice qui ressort de l'artiste, pleine de sentiments et etant le moins
raisonnee possible.
Au croisement de ces 2 pendants, surgit l'ouvre de Diane. Elle y melange une
tendance vers l'irrealisme en utilisant principalement des images
fantastiques et surprenantes. Par contre, contrairement a ce qui etait prone
par Salvador Dali, on d?note dans ses toiles moins d'insouciance que le but
d'atteindre un resultat esthetique bien determine.
Comme par exemple, la toile « The End of A Life » de 1999. Peinte apres que
Diane ait appris que sa mere souffrait d'un cancer, sa toile incluait le
chiffre huit, qui selon elle, symbolise l'infini tout comme une main, qui y
est representee, et qui se refere aux premiers signaux laisses par des
humains dans les cavernes indiquant que le present, le passe et le futur
sont inter relies a n'importe quel moment de la vie, en formes fluides qui
outrepassent les barrieres du temps.
L'existence serait justement la continuite entre ce qui a ete fait, les
actes presents de chacun et leurs consequences futures. En ce sens, la
peintre est privilegiee parce qu'elle s'inspire de diverses influences
(passe), elle realise son ouvre (le moment present de sa creation) et elle a
la capacite d'en faire le point initial de nouvelles reflexions (laissant un
testament pour le futur).
Nee le 6 janvier 1957, a Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada, Diane Tremblay avoue
avoir ete le plus influencee par un professeur d'art, au niveau secondaire,
qui etant lui-meme peintre, a su lui faire decouvrir le monde de Dali, du
surrealisme, de Klint, de Munch ainsi que de l'expressionnisme en general.
Diane, membre d'une famille d'artistes, croit que l'influence la plus
dominante recue au cours de son enfance, fut celle de sa mere qui etait
sculpteure. Par la suite elle suivit des cours d'art a l'Universite du
Quebec, dans sa ville natale et elle enseigna, elle-meme, ce cours au
secondaire a partir de 1979. Par contre, vers 1997, l'envie de se faire
connaitre professionnellement se fit plus forte que celle de diriger des
travaux.
L'effet fantastique resulte de l'interaction des forces creees entre les
images par la peintre. Des tons de vert, bleu et lilas se melangent dans un
effet fantastique marque par la presence de diverses figurines feminines.
Les cheveux longs de certaines d'entre elles evoquent la sensualite et le
passage du temps.
Les differents elements nous permettent, avec une vision elargie, de
realiser qu'a travers la peinture l'etre humain recherche ses propres
limites. La mort et la vie acquierent de nouvelles connotations, se
transformant en une espece de mouvement continu, ou la seule certitude est
que l'art peut, en fait, contribuer a renverser des dogmes et construire un
monde de quetes qui, avec des artistes talentueux, se transforme en un
univers de plaisirs esthetiques.
Dans le travail de Diane Tremblay, l'imagination expose un pouvoir infini de
suprematie. Les symboles places dans chaque toile representent des images
exprimant l'etat d'un esprit, sa position devant un monde ou tout est con?u
dans une sphere au-dela du reel, essentiellement dynamique et
transformatrice.
