Medium : mixed media

Born in Three Rivers, Quebec in 1964.

Self-taught, Josée Lord has been painting since a very young age. Today, inspired and marvelled just as much as in her childhood, she follows the same exaltation as before. Her compositions are expressive and joyful, animated by her choice of a vivid palette. The interior spaces she paints well reflect her originality. A black contour line, drawn with pastel or acrylic, surrounds the forms. This line is drawn freely with the artist’sfingers. Lord explains that she needs to be in direct contact with the materials she is working with, so that the painting may live in all its sensuality.

Josée Lord, whose imagination is more than fertile, likes to bring forth two very distinct interior spaces. One of her visions, as described above, is elaborate, energizing, and colourful. Her other vision is more subdued and scarce both in colour and composition. These latter paintings have as objective to sooth and calm the soul. True to her art, Josée Lord uses the same black contour line in these paintings as well. Either of her spaces, may it be the very electrifying one or the serene one, are very representative of the artist’s spirit. Both depict a wonderful universe ruled by imagination that enables us to set ours free.

Media coverage :
Magazin' Art, winter 2003-2004 edition, article pg.96-98 (French version), pg.117-119 (English version); Magazin’ Art, biennial guide to Canadian artists in galleries, 2002-2003.

Collections :
Casino of Charlevoix; Corinna Novantis Inc.; Labatt Brewry; Engine Smith Productions.