Biography
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Born
in Buckingham, Québec, in 1949, Jean-Yves Guindon starts drawing
at an early age. Since 1984, he dedicates himself entirely to watercolors.
A
self-tought artist, he inspires himself mostly from nature and Québec
landscapes. His style is qualified as ‘realist-impressionist’.
Winner
of many prizes and mentions, his paintings distinguish themselves
by their luminosity, their sensitivity and the interiority of their
message. He already possesses an impressive itinerary of canadian
and european expositions.
Since
1988, Guindon lives professionally and exclusively from the profits
and revenues of his art. His paintings are permanenetly exhibited
at his private studio in St-André-Avellin (Québec) in la Petite-Nation,
in the Outaouais.
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His
first original drawing to receive attention dates of 1959. He was
ten years old. Created from his fertile imagination, he worked with
‘Prismacolor’ coloring crayons. |
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distinguishes himself a first time in 1967, by winning the “Premier
Prix” at a visual arts exposition at ‘Le Pic à bois’ in Gatineau,
with his work in pastel “L’Humanité”. The prize was presented tohim
by Mr Roger Larivière, artist and art professor. |
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In
the late 60’s and early 70’s, he installs his first studio in the
basement of the family home. He explores, one after the other, oil
painting, pastels, sculpture. He is author-composer-interpreter and
performs with Yves Chevalier and Robert Grégoire. He writes prose
and paetry under the pseudonym ‘Éric’ and is regularly published in
the newspaper. He carries away the honors with his poetry ‘Dits grand-mère’
during the ‘Centenaire du Canada’ in Rockland, Ontario.
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first solo visual arts exposition, showing more than fortu of his
watercolors, takes place at the ‘Centre d’exposition de Gatineau’
in 1984. He his laureate with his work ‘St-François-de-Sales’ at the
contest organised by the municipality, and taking place at the same
time. He is then asked to paint an illustration for wine bottles ‘La
cuvée des draveurs’. |
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He
opens and operstes the first private gallery in Gatineau in 1985,
under the name ‘Atelier Jean-Cadre’ and then, in 1988, l’Atelier jean-Yves
Guindon on Main Street in Gatineau, where for a period of ten years,
he teaches to more than 600 students. |
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two occasions, in 1992 and in 1993, he has a solo showing in Brussels,
Belgium. The newspaper title his style as ‘realist-impressionist’
and ‘the great magician of light’. He won, during cultural manifestaions,
six grand prizes from the Outaouais public, one of wich was the ‘Public’s
choice at an exposition with Korean and canadian artists. this took
place at the Montcalm Gallery in Hull, Québec, in 1996.
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For
the last ten years, he inovates by hoding in the region of la Petite-Nation,
an annual rural exposition, regrouping more than 250 personal paintings.
Some 2500 visitors come to his studio during the summer. Jean-Yves
Guindon lives professionlly and exclusively from the profit of the
sale of his works and the revenues from his art since 1989. In the
15 years of his full-time career, he has produced more than 2000
original paintings, that have found takers in Canad, the United
States and Europe.
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At
nine years of age, he organises ‘tombolas’ in his parents’
backyard and invited the neighborhood to his games. To-day,
the tradition lives on...
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