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Education:
2006-2007:Developp my personnal style, Alex Powers and Marylin Hughey-Phillis.
2005-2006:Portrait and figure, Alex Powers.
2003-2007:Coaching with oil and acrylic paint, Jennifer Hornyak.
2005:Mixed media techniques introducing silk and japanese papers, Pierrette Labonté.
2004-2006:Mixed media techniques with Yong Sook Kim-Lambert.
2003:Oil sticks technique, Jacques Clément.
2003:Acrylic's technique, Dominique Sarrazin.
2003-2004:Icon, Fresco and egg’s technique painting, “oldest techniques”, Svetla Velikova.
2003:Encaustic painting, Eric Demers.
2000-2003:Fluid acrylic and abstract painting, Lila Lewis Irving.
2000:Oil technique painting, Graeme Ross.
1990:University of Sherbrooke, many credits for the certificate in Arts.
Awards:
2006:Arts Center "Les Trésors de la Grange", award from public's choice, Magog, Quebec.
2005:Gold Medal at the "22nd Gala-concours" of the CAPSQ in the "Figurative Frontier" category.
2004:Silver Medal at the “21st Gala-concours” of the CAPSQ in the “Figurative reality” category.
Membership and Involvement:
2009:October 7th 2009 : participation at the Annual Auction "Automn'Art" to the benefit of the Cegep of Sherbrooke.
2009:Donation of a painting for the Annual Auction of the Alzheimer Society Estrie.
2007:Professionnal member, Regroupement des Artistes en Arts visuels, RAAV, Quebec : www.raav.org
2006:Galerie Arts Sutton, Sutton, Quebec : www.artssutton.com
2004-2006:Cercle des Artistes peintres et sculpteurs du Québec, CAPSQ, Montreal, Quebec.
2003:Creatio, Artists Center. A group of professional artists from the Eastern Townships, Quebec : www.creatio.net
2003:Founder of the school Alelucia, l’École d’Art de l’Estrie, Magog, Quebec : www.alelucia.com
2003:Founder member of the Georgeville-Fitch Bay Artists Association, Qc : www.festivaldesarts.net
1994:Initiator and founder member of the Circuit des Arts de Memphremagog, Magog, Quebec.
Recognition:
2009:Repertory "Biennal des Artistes Canadiens en galeries" 2009/2010.
2007:La Tribune Journal, « Une exposition d’atmosphère », Sherbrooke, Quebec.
2007:The Reflet du Lac Journal, « Une exposition pour prendre le large », Magog, Quebec.
2006:Repertory "Biennal des Artistes Canadiens en galeries" 2006/2008
2005:The Tribune Journal, « Savoir assumer son âme d’artiste », Sherbrooke, Quebec.
2005:The Reflet du Lac Journal, « Les couleurs de l’atmosphère de Lucie St-Jean », Magog, Quebec.
2005:Répertory "Visa-Art", 13e edition « L’eau du temps ».
2004:The Record Journal, « Five questions with Lucie St-Jean », Sherbrooke, Quebec.
2004:Répertory "Visa-Art", 12e edition « Visions ».


Journey:

"Each one of us has its own interior music of accompaniment. And if others also hear it, it is called the personality." Gilbert Cesbron

"Through my paintings, I wish to make you hear my interior music, the music that moves me and makes me authentic. It sometimes sounds dramatic but doesn’t take itself too seriously. However, it is always filled with poetry. Poetry allows creating, going from non-being to living by giving existence to things.


Among my influences is the painter William Turner. I’ve always been fascinated by his paintings, rich in atmosphere allowing to dream and freely imagine one scenario or another. He liked painting the atmosphere between two elements; my approach is rather to paint a subject and the atmosphere surrounding it. I use colour and texture to capture the space, and the line to write my own poetry. I appreciate the painter Edgar Degas for being able to stand out from his era by painting scenes happening around him and not only scenes from a distant spectator’s viewpoint. Finally, I admire Salvador Dali, for his thinking, for his paintbrush that carries the subject further and further.

I paint for pleasure and for the need to express my personal emotions without seeking the same emotions in the spectator. On the contrary, if my work awakens your personal emotions, my goal is that much more attained.

I considered myself as a self-taught artist, even with the workshops I followed. I always keep searching for new and different approches in my work.