BIO

Ginette Pelletier is a graduate from the Fine Art Program, Nipissing University, North Bay, where she studied under Paul Kelly and Dennis Geden. She has also obtained a diploma in Arts and Craft, Ceramic Program, (Canadore College, North Bay) under the instruction of Keith Campbell and Jane Agnew. Ginette works predominantly in painting, printmaking and drawing. Although her work is mainly two-dimensional, Ginette wants to further her practice and explore abstracted narrative in a three dimensional format.

STATEMENT

My artistic vision is about interpreting topography. It is also about exploring phantasmagorical landscape.

Landscape is not a subject I have deliberately chosen for my practice: it came as I explored mark making in different techniques.

I work from the imagination. My goal is to explore the essence of a landscape, the feelings conveyed by a season, a time of day, the name of a place, the ambient temperature. I escape to an imaginary world. I am the observer of an ephemeral landscape.

I like contrasting mountain and low land, discover what appears on the horizon line, and how landscape feels like when viewed from a parked car, from a low flying plane, or standing on an elevation.

Instead of being romantic about landscape and topography, I prefer an impressionistic approach, in a quasi-abstract way, aiming mostly for dynamic colour associations.

My work begins as an improvisation. To carry the concepts I want to express, I use media and techniques that allow impulsive and playful mark making: acrylic, inks, palette and putty knives, oils sticks, graphite.

Since April 2016, I have started exploring illustration with printmaking using mostly the dry point technique, It allows me so create sharp expressive lines, while playing with colour and different surfaces, I would like to further this technique and include poster making in my practice.

Curriculum Vitea

Exhibitions:

2018       Mapping the Land: Surfaces and Beyond, Two-Person Exhibition,  Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2017       Gallery Hon, Hon Sushi, Collingwood, ON

Group Exhibitions:

2018      Exposure, Orillia Museum of Art and history, Orillia, ON

2017      Local Findings, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2017       Lessons in Play, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2017        Members' Salon, Quest Art School + Gallery, ON

2017        Pushing Nature, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2017       Piece of Mind International Print Exchange, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2017       renewal, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Orillia, ON

2017       New Year, New Work, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2016       Road to Home, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON               

2016       Particulars, www.questart.ca

2016       Places and Spaces, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2016       Stories Told, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2015       Little Treasures, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2015       From Head to Toe, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2015       Into the Woods, Quest Art School + Gallery, Midland, ON

2005       In Our Image: A Celebration of Women, WKP Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, ON

2004       In Our Image: A Celebration of Women, WKP Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, ON

Events:

2017       Participation to ArtSlam 2017, Midland Cultural Centre and Quest Art Gallery, Midland, ON

2017        Festival of Banners, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Orillia, ON

2016       Painting performance, AGA de la Clé d’la Baie en Huronie, Midland, ON

2016       Participation to ArtSlam, Midland Cultural Centre and Quest Art Gallery, Midland, ON

Collection:

Artwork in private collections in Ontario

Education:

BA, Fine Arts/Visual Arts, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON

Diploma Arts and Craft, Ceramic, Canadore College, North Bay, ON

Professional development for artist workshops at Quest Art in Midland, and Artsperience, Canadore College, in North Bay

Award:

J.W. Trusler Proficiency Award in Fine Arts/Visual Arts