Biography

Born in Sillery ( Quebec) in 1956. Her studio is located in Lévis,Quebec, Canada.

Bachelor of Arts degree, Laval University, Quebec, Canada. Diploma in Commercial Art, Technical School, Quebec, Canada

She grows within a large family where the freedom allows the establishment of the essential bases of a creativity which shows itself from its childhood. The pleasure to investigate this fertile environment establishes a compost convenient to the blooming of its imagination. During the first years following her studies in advertising drawing, she integrates the labour market. At the same time, she dedicates her spare time to the creation in visual arts. And so she completes her technical knowledge and discovers, by the fact, the area of the possibilities of expression in drawing and painting. She seizes all the occasions, the technical workshops, the sessions of portraits and models. In 1997, she receives offers to teach the techniques of drawing and water color. It is an important stage of its progress, to share its knowledge asks her the discipline and develops its need of searches to deepen always its knowledge. In 1999, she makes an important decision which aims at allowing her to make a big change in its professional life. She joins the program in visual arts at the University Laval. These 3 years of studies participate to give her a more just vision of the work of creation while giving to her the opportunity to acquire precious tools for her development. Then a first art gallery suggests her presenting its work and this before even the end of its studies. In 1999 and in 2000, she has the chance to be a part of the team of the Symposium of the New Painting in Baie-Saint-Paul.

This experience is also significant in its course, the narrow relation which established with the artists, the speakers and the public is, even today, a source of motivation. In December, 2001, she obtain her diploma, and she(it) sets off at once. She crosses a part of the United States to settle down finally for some months in Arizona and in California. Then she goes back up the coast to Vancouver. Throughout this stay, she paints, but it is only on the way back that she becomes aware of changes which were made in her work of creation. From her arrival, she begins to present her paintings in several art galleries in Quebec and Ontario.

Artistic approach

However far she remembers, she considers to have taken advantage of a freedom to act which has allowed her to investigate drawing and painting without too much constraint. Little aware of these exceptional conditions during her childhood, she afterward realized in which point her actual work is dependent on these circumstances.

She considers that her work of creation is a contemporary approach of representational painting. The choice between representation or abstraction is not really presented, the emotional contents or informative of the work is only indebted in his coherence. Johanne believes that a picture elements of which are not in harmony lacks a subject. The pooling of material elements do not summarize either the picture, she estimates constantly, the emotional potential of certain layout and as long as she is not satisfied, She reconsiders the legitimacy of each of the constituents. Colors, forms and composition, texture and format of the work are subjected to often drastic reorganizations, but she succeeds in being satisfied.

She considers that her  painting is a discreet witness of the things of the everyday life.