Le radeau des cimes

The body of work presented is made up of a series of portraits where the aesthetic discourse revolves around the human being. These creations not only display a figurative result, but they also demonstrate the exploration of different attitudes and states of mind towards life. The sensitivity where it moves, between reverie and reality, evokes emotions linked to intimacy, territory and memory.

Attentive to the beauty of familiar and simple things, Isabelle Grondin draws from life: plant motifs, places, characters, and atmosphere, all being reorganized, reinvented and transposed into an hymn to life. Her preferred medium, for its undeniable sensitive and plastic qualities, is oil, more specifically the old technique of Rubens, namely glazing and optical colours.

Isabelle Grondin is a multidisciplinary artist born in Montreal where she studied visual arts and obtained a Baccalaureate, then a Master's Degree in creation at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She also did an internship in Italy. She created a public work of art as part of the Art and Architecture Integration Program.

Her artistic work has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in Quebec. Some of her work is part of the Loto-Québec collection, the Prêt d’Œuvres d’Art du Québec, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal and several other public and private collections.

The artist now lives and works in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu in the Vallée-du-Richelieu, Quebec.

The opening will take place on Sunday March 17, 2024 at 2 p.m. The public and the press are cordially invited.