Self-taught artist native of Quebec, Marie Plante was a child psychiatrist and her passion for the arts has been present since childhood.

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Canadian geese, migratory birds that feed on the shore of the St. Lawrence River, were her first inspiration. The shores are rich with life and lead her to paint large sea birds and vegetation.

Over time her creative approach leads her to express the shore and the migration more than to paint it figuratively. Her shores become more abstract, suggested. Her birds are sketched. The vegetation is represented by drawing the tall grasses. Her banks evolve and tell a different story one year to another. Her «Rives d'eau» collection is her largest and rich of evolution.

The figurative and the portrait are reminded to her periodically and a bird emerges from the canvas, taken from a travel photo or that of a photographer from Quebec with authorization. Except for her bird paintings, the spontaneity of creation prevails in her works. The balance of shapes and colors guides her. Acrylic allows her more creative freedom and her approach has broken away from observational drawing to target the imaginary, joyful and serene interpretation of nature so that her art brightens up.

Several collections of works overlap and complement each other: Rives d'eau / Shores, Oiseaux / Birds, Quatre éléments / Four Elements, Plumes / Feathers ...

She plays with textures with the knife and colors, and recently with a layer of modeling paste that she prints to texture her work. Her colors have the radiance of the pigments of life and she works them with gestures, in the drawing of curves, the brushstroke, the sliding of the knife or the spray of the aerosol.

In 2020-21, the year of the pandemic, the shores change, become isolated to the point of being unrecognizable. Then the desire for other shores self-imposes. Dreamed shores, migrations to an elsewhere invade the canvas. Even without traveling, the inner journey is always possible.

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While turquoise is in the spotlight during the first wave of the pandemic, it is accompanied by orange and gives way to red and black with the second wave. Gold, its favorite color, retains all its importance. And she finalizes her work with gold color in string to highlight a detail, crimp and enhance the subject. The gold color and its luminous reflections are part of the Plante’s signature.

Her art is evolving as she continually explores new techniques. If 2020 was the year of acrylic spray, stencils, and textures, 2021 will see her tame the airbrush. She allows herself to use as stencils: ferns, pine branches and goldenrods from her land on the north shore of St-Lawrence river her painting becomes more organic.

Fall 2021, another step in her career, she opens her artist studio in downtown Quebec City

Spring 2022, she participate to an exhibition of the Manif d'Art 10, at the Galerie Bécot.

Nature is precious, beautiful, sacred! Through her art, Marie Plante wants people to discover, respect, and preserve the beauty of nature.

 Marie Plante                                                                           March 2021

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