Danielle Tremblay

Danielle Tremblay’s canvases are the avenues that allow her subjects to meet for the first time. These visual encounters are the platform through which she examines human relationships. Her method is a reflection of the emotional tenor of the encounters she seeks to reveal through her work. She spreads colors on a blank canvas and allows the interweaving stories of her subjects to emerge. Light passes through color and lines bend and recede as truths revealed in that defining moment take form. The artist’s anxiety at the moment of conception parallels her subjects’ anxiety as they both reveal themselves to, and conceal themselves from one another. In the instant of unification, clarity intervenes and the mysterious bridge between tension and peace is erected.

Danielle Tremblay attributes her understanding of the importance of self-revelation in art to her first art teacher, Frère Jérôme, who was a follower of Borduas, and pushed his students to seek new creative approaches to reveal fresh insights. She is a member of Atelier du Geste, under the direction of artist Andrée Bonnard, and graduated with a BFA from Concordia University. She has had several solo and group exhibitions in Montreal.