Morin, Suzanne
Neo-impressionism / Fauvism, Wood Scenes (Oils)
Born in the Laurentians, Suzanne Morin grew up between fields that run through valleys and the mountains, beloved scenes that served first as so many playgrounds and which she later transposed onto her artist’s canvas.
She started sketching scenes in childhood, and then, in the late 1970’s she decided to set down in oil paints the feelings which would arise in her before a magnificent view: “to paint nature when the colors almost surpass reality”, she muses reasonably. Suzanne Morin’s lighting is almost surreal even while her paintings depict the actual scenes which have inspired them: one observes autumnal woods, ponds of sapphire on which float orange-coloured traces of dead leaves, and in which denuded trees stand reflected. Every work is minutely executed, detailed and apparently realistic, yet one would not be surprised if an elf suddenly sprang out of the decor. One must simply find a way to view and admire the enchanted forests of Suzanne Morin.
Suzanne Morin’s first exhibitions took place in British Columbia, where she resided for ten years. Since returning east, she has exhibited in Mont-Tremblant (1994), at the inauguration of the aerobic corridor (1998), and during the Cultural Days event in Saint Faustin (1998). She participated in the St. Jovite Week of the Arts for a seventh time.
In 1999, she exhibited paintings in the Bookshop housed in the Train Station at Lac Carré, at Hutchinson Gallery in Val David, and in Le Daguet Restaurant on the South Shore of Montreal.
At the turn of the Millennium, one could admire her works on the occasion of two group exhibitions at Club Tremblant, and shortly afterward it was the site of Suzanne Morin’s first solo exhibition.
Her portfolio consists of over a hundred paintings.
Suzanne Morin
Huberdeau, QC
Text by François Landry
Translation by Yolande Kuzmicki loondance.ca