Medium : oil

Born in 1957 in St-Évariste, Beauce. Aline Brochu now resides in the region of Quebec City.

Aline Brochu is foremost a self-taught artist. She took a few painting classes here and there, but she soon developed her personal style.Using the palette knife and oil as her medium, Brochu’s work focuses on the past. The buildings she chooses to paint are part of Quebec's past. May they be ancestral homes from the Charlevoix region or the beautiful old buildings that make the Old Quebec so unique. The people she paints are also dressed in period clothing.Her work is warm and joyous and has thus a great human appeal. Her paintings capture the essence of what Quebec represented around the 1920' s. Brochu's paintings depict the historical heritage that our ancestors have left behind, enabling us to remember...

Media coverage :
Magazin’ Art, biennial guide of Canadian artists in galleries, 2002-2003 and prior years; Magazin’ Art, autumn 2001 edition, article pg. 73 (French version), pg.127 (English version); Agend’art communimage, 1996; La Beauce en peinture, book, Roussan, 1992.

Collections :
Museum of the Haute-Beauce, St-Évariste-de-Beauce; IBM, Montreal; Canam-Manac; Famili-Prix; Caisse populaire Desjardins; Créations par le dire, Québec; Club Location, Québec; Consultants Enval Inc.; and many more.

Prizes and distinctions :
Prize of the public at the 250th anniversary of the town of Ste-Marie-de-Beauce; work chosen by Canam Manac, 1994 and 1996; work chosen for the calendar of the town of St-Jean-Chrysostome.