Painter
Born in Montreal in 1960, Celine Brossard is a self-taught painter. She first graduated in advertising graphics and, later, she recieved a diploma in communication from the H.E.C of Montreal.
The training as a graphic designer and advertising executive imbue her work with creativity and provide the growth to work the drawing with much rigour. The paintings draw their inspiration in the transformation of characters and simple objects to which it gives a whimsical pace and sometimes surprising result. Brossard's technique supports the marked transparency and textures. In the language of color, the artist explores the values and contrasts where the oranges, the yellows, ochres and the browns dominate and are accentuated by the presence of red and blue.
The artist plays intentionally with the concepts and presents to us a series of surprising characters often transformed, carrying a topic in a precise universe. Matters, textures and transparencies are joined together and worked for the realization of work to the harmonious and balanced composition. Robert Bernier, in an article devoted to the artist, writes of the connection with the artistic step ’Äúthe painting of Celine Brossard takes source in the spirit of surrealism. Each work is designed as if it were about a joining, without however in being. Notice that the impression of joining is not so much in the field of the technique as such as in the assembly of the image...The artist brings the nature of the subject and the contents of her matter like a comic strip, each element reinforcing the speech, pushing the observer with the play of the deduction by association." Celine Brossard draws her subjects with a concern for their daily life of men and women.