MYLENE DE GAGNE

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Live and create in Levis, Quebec, Canada

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I hope to create works full of color, texture and movement, which demonstrate the energy, passion and emotions that music brings me and that musicians live and transmit us by their talent. And bring positive emotions and beauty into this world.

BIOGRAPHY

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For as long as she can remember – even beyond, according to her mother – she always has been drawing a lot, to the point that she had to cover the walls with paper bags to prevent her from tracing her creative impulses on them!

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Creating is an inexhaustible passion. Over the years, she has explored various art forms, techniques and mediums: oil, watercolour, pastel, acrylic, alcohol ink, pottery/ceramic, stained glass, collage, photography, jewelry creation, interior decoration, dance, music... ​​

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She always knew that she wanted to create for a living, which led her to study graphic design, an area in which she worked full-time for 34 years. 

She created her first acrylic paintings in the early 2000s to decorate her walls and those of her friends, but this is during a visit to the 2014 "Nuit des Galeries" in Quebec City that it clicked and she began to develop her personal style of abstract expressionism—action painting, acrylic and stained glass, sometimes with a touch of pop art. Style that she continues to develop full-time since 2023. 

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Painting is for her a place of expression without constraints, a synonym of creation freedom.

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ARTISTIC APPROACH

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Art in its broad sense has always really stimulated me. Nature, mainly shadows, reflections, clouds, water and stones, animals and everything around me nourishes and inspires me.

In 2019, after a few years of working on my style, I felt that my paintings were very busy and it was by wanting to add more air space/white, that the idea came to me to use silhouettes, at first mainly animals and then musicians. As a musician and jazz singer myself, I am always surrounded by musicians. And music is my main inspiration, it’s impossible for me to create without music, it guides my gestures through the emotions that it gives me. 

My visual research focuses on contrasts, colors, texture and movement. I also sometimes integrate silhouettes of musicians, animals, famous faces, etc., I make them appear using a mask under the acrylic layer, that I work freely, intuitively, in superimposed layers with spatulas and silicone tools. I also add movement by letting the paint flow directly from the bottle with fluid and instinctive gestures.

What sets me apart: I always incorporate pieces of stained glass in my creations.

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My favorite painters and influences are Vincent Van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Corno, Lori Mirabelli, Annabelle Marquis and Melanie Simard.