Biography

Although she has been drawing since childhood, it was about ten years ago that she truly reconnected with the fine arts. Her creative drive is rooted in her native Saguenay, where she explored theatre, operetta, music, and painting from an early age. She built a career in communications, yet the visual and plastic arts never stopped calling to her: collage, watercolour, acrylic, oil, sculpture, inks, drawing… She experimented with all of these techniques without truly finding her path.

Soft pastel was a turning point: its light, intense colours, and direct gesture led her from an abstract approach to an intuitive form of representation. Her favourite subjects range from still lifes and floral compositions to landscapes, urban scenes, and travel memories. A globetrotter at heart, and a well-established figure in the visual arts in Deux-Montagnes, she collects atmospheres, textures, and light that she translates onto paper: lively alleyways, markets, shorelines, gardens, faces encountered along the way. She also explores contemporary works, built on gestural, textured backgrounds.

Through these works, she seeks to capture emotion in the moment — with the unique speed, sensitivity, and vibrancy of pastel.

She has had the opportunity to exhibit on several occasions, in both group and solo shows. Her work has been featured in Art and Color 360 magazine and has received awards on various occasions, notably at the international exhibition “Les Pastellistes” of the Pastel Society of Eastern Canada. She is a member of the Pastel Society of Eastern Canada, the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV), and the American Pastel Society.

Artistic Training

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM): Certificate in Visual Arts (in progress)
Université de Montréal: Studies in Design
Various specialized workshops in visual art and soft pastel

Solo Exhibitions

February 2025: Movement and Light – An Exploration in Pastel, Maison du citoyen, Saint-Eustache
December 2024: Movement and Light – An Exploration in Pastel, La petite église Cabaret-spectacle, Saint-Eustache
November 2024: Movement and Light – An Exploration in Pastel, Bibliothèque Guy-Bélisle, Saint-Eustache

Group Exhibitions

October 2025: International Exhibition Les Pastellistes – PSEC, Espace Quatre-Cents, Québec City
May 2025: Sympos’Arts, Saint-Eustache
December 2024: International Virtual Exhibition Pixel Pastel, PSEC
2024: Pastel Toujours, Centre d’art de Sainte-Rose, Laval – PSEC
2023: Pastel Exhibition, Galerie d’art 203, Westmount – PSEC
2023: Pastel Exhibition, Galerie d’art 203, Montréal – PSEC

Awards & Distinctions

October 2025: 4th Prize – International Exhibition “Les Pastellistes,” PSEC
November 2024: Artistic Recognition Award, Art and Color 365 Magazine (Pastel Competition)
August 2024: Honorable Mention – Pastel Toujours, Centre d’art de Sainte-Rose (PSEC)
December 2023: 6th Prize – Pastel Exhibition, PSEC

Teaching

2026: Introductory workshops in soft pastel, City of Deux-Montagnes
2026: Introductory workshop in still life using soft pastel, City of Deux-Montagnes
2026: Introductory workshop in landscape using soft pastel, City of Deux-Montagnes
2025: Journées de la culture, Deux-Montagnes — Introductory Soft Pastel Workshop
2023: Introductory Pastel Workshop, City of Deux-Montagnes

Affiliations

Member, Société de pastel de l’est du Canada (PSEC)
Member, Pastel Society of America (PSA)
Member, Regroupement des artistes en art visuel du Québec (RAVQ)