Painter and printmaker Renée Gélinas loves being surrounded by nature. That's why she lives in Miscou for several months of the year. Nature is important to her, not only as a source of creative inspiration, but also as an essential element of life. She works as a printmaker at Atelier Circulaire in Montreal and with her small Dupont press in Acadia.

 

Artist Renée Gélinas has taken several training courses. She apprenticed at the École d'ébénisterie d'art de Montréal, studied design at Collège de Maisonneuve, and reprography, documentation, linocut, monotype, stone lithography and image processing at Atelier Circulaire. She also received professional training at the Society for Arts and Technology and took painting classes with Jeffrey Goodman, to mention just a few of her courses.

 

Her artistic research has always focused on abstraction and construction through color. Forms, symbols and gestures make up her own recognizable language, structuring her compositions based on the process, emergence, incongruity, recycling and dialogue. She works on the same corpus over a long period of time, in series, until the source idea, its derivations and matrices are exhausted.

 

His works are part of several private collections, the Collection Loto-Québec and Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.  They have been shown in solo exhibitions in Montreal, La Sarre, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Verdun, Sutton and Toronto, and in numerous group shows in Vancouver, Toronto, Sarcelles (France) and Granges (Switzerland).

 

The works of artist Renée Gélinas are part of many collections, including those of La Ville de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and Loto-Québec. Many works are also part of private collections such as the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles du Québec (SODEC), Astral Télé Réseau, the Grov'Art building, INIS, architects' and engineers' offices, and bookstores.

 

His artistic work has also appeared in print in Vie des arts magazine in 2023 and 2016, and in Le Devoir and La Presse newspapers in 2012.