approach
My art is in the movement of the surrealists. My approach can be considered allegorical or magical realism.
Drawing from my imagination, I invite you to enter my world populated by trees, water, clouds and light that let you see these landscapes of the soul, overflowing with life and serenity.
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In the absence of any control of reason, away from formatted thoughts, I invite you to enter this intimate world.
Artist statement
Manon Potvin's artworks are part of the surrealism movement.
She approaches her art through an imaginary realism approach.
oil painting is her favorite medium since it allows her to create paintings that literally project us to surprising atmospheres with a mastered drawing and points of view that magnify the subject.
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Her inspiration is guiding her into a fantastic imagination, which sometimes translates into grandiose spaces, sometimes into intimate structures, overflowing with life, serenity and always bathed in a luminous scene that grips the soul.
In the absence of any control of reason, away from formatted thoughts, she lets us enter her private world.
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Nature, endless source of inspiration is her favorite subject. She observes that everything in nature seems to evolve in a perfect way, ruled by an unerring law. It is this ubiquitous intelligence that she tries to make visible in her paintings. They are the result of a dialogue with the living to which they also pay tribute.
Attentive to the images that emerge from her subconscious, Manon Potvin paints those images who seduce and stimulate her as much by their originality, their symbolic, their technical challenge or their aesthetic potential. With oil and fine brushes, the magic happens and the works take shape. She takes advantage of the plasticity of the oil medium to polish the details and let her inspiration go until the final signature. Working on the perfection of the details, the three-dimensionality, transparent shades, light and contrast, she creates dreamlike scenes filled with serenity and completeness. She seeks to make them as much realistic as possible so we can better believe it and take part in her world.
Her works take us into a world of mystery, unforeseen, beauty, poetry and magic. The time and space disappear, leaving room for fantasy, to everyone's imagination. This state, this mental space created, stimulates us and makes us more sensitive, receptive to inspiration and innovative ideas.
Like the Great thinkers of Quantum physics that promote the plurality of the reality principle, the works of Manon Potvin invite us to see a completely different view of the world, recognizing that we are in front of endless possibilities from which we are all creators.