Espace Claire-Léger presents
Diane Auger, Danielle Bro-Morel, Manon Marchand and Yolande Valiquette
Quatuor
From September 12 to October 20, 2024
Diane Auger, Danielle Bro-Morel, Manon Marchand and Yolande Valiquette
Quatuor
Vernissage, Sunday September 15, 2024 at 2 p.m.
| Diane Auger Au fil de l’eau 
Sous le bleu du ciel, 2024, Watercolour and ink, 57 x 12,5 cm |
Danielle Bro-Morel Sentiers 
Sentier A, 2023, Photography, inkjet printing on Fine Art paper, 64,77 x 50,8 cm |
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| The artist has been working with watercolor for about seven years. This medium fascinates her because of its relationship with water, its fluidity that makes each creation unique, and its invocation of the sea.
When she began exploring acrylics in the fall of 2023, she redefined her style by incorporating the techniques she learned in watercolor, delighted to discover and grasp the unique qualities of both mediums and the beautiful challenges they present. Diane Auger draws her creativity from daily activities or the rhythm of seasonal travels. She takes pleasure in exploring, discovering, and letting her imagination run free… The experience is motivating, and the result is almost always unpredictable. She loves it! Diane Auger has continuously attended training workshops to improve her knowledge. She has participated in various group exhibitions, earning a special mention in 2020 and a first prize in 2021 in competitions organized by Michael Solovyev. |
Danielle Bro-Morel’s experimental practice primarily involves photography, which has fascinated her since childhood. She first explored analog photography and then digital photography. Moreover, her research, focused on teaching media arts, allowed her to deepen her knowledge of digital art.
Her practice involves gathering images or objects, cutting them out, and accumulating them in contemporary art projects that incorporate sculpture and digital photography. Her assemblage sculptures are often created from recycled materials. Her creative process is guided by the themes of trace (by contact or light), relief, and an interest in transformation and representation. Her recent art projects, like Sentiers, focus on our living spaces and our place in the natural environment. Danielle Bro-Morel lives and works in Montreal and the Eastern Townships. She studied for a bachelor’s degree in visual arts at the University of Ottawa and a master’s degree in visual and media arts (with a concentration in education) at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). She has exhibited her work at Galerie 101 in Ottawa, Skol Center for Contemporary Arts in Montreal, the CDEX gallery at UQAM, Arts Sutton in 2023, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art as a teaching artist mediator. |
| Manon Marchand Cheminement de vie 
Bow lake et son beau parcours, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 cm |
Yolande Valiquette Série douce 
Brunante, 2023, Mixed media (Acrylic and charcoal), 28cm x 36 (unframed) |
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| Mountain hiking and artistic practice are part of her personal quest. This is where the artist Manon Marchand finds her balance between the essential and the superficial. Her goal is to convey this perfect communion with nature. It only takes imagining a silent dialogue between herself, the hiker, and her environment for the landscape’s atmosphere to evoke a fusion between them.
“I always hike with my artist painter’s eyes and my heart as an earthling,” she expresses the importance of the connection between the inner and outer worlds, which resonates with her on the trails. “The power of the mountains grows my inner strength, and I love sharing this beautiful energy that I receive so naturally.” Manon Marchand has received several awards and distinctions, including an honorable mention from Mondial Art Academia and the Armand Vaillancourt trophy at Rencontre des Arts St-Jean-sur-Richelieu. She is a member of the IAF (Institut des arts figuratifs) and RAAV (Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels). |
For artist Yolande Valiquette, the tree is a fundamental element in nature. It bears the marks of natural events and the passing years. A tree can live 300 to 400 years if it is not cut down in the name of progress, as is often the case. Yolande Valiquette sees the tree as her anchor, the beginning of everything. Already at the age of 11, she won a first prize for her Noyer.
The title Série douce (Soft Series) refers to Mother Nature, the nurturing mother who can also be violent. In the works presented here, the artist uses watercolor, acrylic, soft pastel, and charcoal in various combinations. These different mediums give her a certain freedom of expression. Yolande Valiquette holds a bachelor’s degree in design from UQAM and a master’s degree in Communication Visual Arts from Goddard College, VT. In addition to her artistic practice, she has produced thematic exhibitions and taught design and fine arts at the university level. Her works have been exhibited in Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec. |
