CAMILLE
GRAVEL
Artistic approach
Camille is driven by a visceral need to live life to the fullest, rather than simply to exist. She channels this intensity through her art, creating works imbued with emotions that oscillate between passion, wonder, balance, and gentleness.
All of this is expressed through her preferred subject: the female face, with which she deeply identifies. The eyes, often closed or hidden within her figures, allow the viewer to receive and connect with the emotion. The local flora and fauna that she incorporates into her works also carry powerful symbols that contribute to her artistic identity. Through them, Camille seeks to illustrate a form of harmony between woman and her environment.
The dynamic poses of the animals and the surreal compositions seek to awaken in the viewer an emotion, an energy or a desire to act, encouraging them to get closer to their own aspirations and to live fully.
Her painting practice favors the warm tones of coffee on wood, as well as the contrasts between black and white acrylic. Her works are distinguished by a rich interplay of textures created using various media and techniques: gold leaf, scattered droplets, visible brushstrokes, and sometimes even elements from nature. These diverse materials lend an almost three-dimensional quality to her works.
Through her practice, Camille wishes to convey this same thirst for life and inspire spectators to live fully, to find harmony within themselves and to pursue their greatest aspirations.
She wants to offer a mirror, a gentle invitation to reconnect with oneself and discover the passion that lives within each of us.
KATHLEEN
ROBY
Artistic approach
Layering is central to Kathleen Roby's practice. She explores the tensions between forms, lines, and contrasts, but above all, what emerges when the different layers meet. Each stage of the creative process retains a trace of its passage—a subtle memory inscribed on the surface of the work.
Materiality plays a central role in her work. Although she uses brushes, spatulas, and wooden sticks, her hands and fingers remain her preferred tools. She also creates her own pigments from natural elements such as peat, wood ash, and rust, which she grinds into fine powders. This transformative process is fundamental to her approach, allowing the physical presence of the land to be inscribed at the heart of each of her works.
The light of Quebec, the rhythm of the seasons, and the surrounding landscapes continually nourish his artistic vision. Sometimes, a personal experience or emotion becomes the starting point for creation. Nothing is directly illustrated, but everything leaves an imprint—a subtle presence, a silent suggestion.
Rather than seeking to represent, Roby seeks to reveal — to bring forth what exists beneath the surface rather than to reproduce what is immediately visible.
Each artwork opens up a sensitive space, carrying its own energy and tensions. It invites the viewer to inhabit it, to project their gaze onto it and to interpret it through their own experiences and sensibilities.
MANON
CREUSOT
Artistic approach
Manon Creusot's pictorial practice is part of a contemporary exploration of abstraction, while also allowing space for freely sketched figurative elements. She is interested in a deconstructed and minimalist form of figuration, where forms do not seek to reproduce reality, but rather to capture its emotional essence.
His approach is based on a completely intuitive process, without preparatory sketches or predefined compositions. Each work is created in the moment, through spontaneous exploration where gesture, color, and rhythm gradually shape the image. This approach is deeply rooted in the freedom to create: the freedom to experiment without expectation, to play without seeking to control everything, and to welcome the unexpected as an essential part of the artistic process.
Color plays a central role in his work. It acts as both material, energy, and emotional language. Whether applied in calm, minimalist flat washes or built up in vibrant layers, it helps establish the visual balance and atmosphere unique to each composition.
Working primarily with acrylics, pencils, and pastels on canvas and paper, Creusot creates works that are both gentle and dynamic. She is particularly interested in their ability to offer moments of respite, evoke a sense of calm, and create spaces conducive to lightness and contemplation.
Rather than telling a specific story, his paintings offer an open perceptual landscape, into which the viewer is invited to project their own memories, emotions, and interpretations.
By favoring an economy of means and a direct visual language, Creusot combines gestural freedom, simplicity of form, and thoughtful attention to composition. Through her practice, she seeks to preserve painting as a space for inner exploration and shared sensitivity, free from the constraints of representation.
JULIE
BEAUCHEMIN
Artistic approach
Julie Beauchemin is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose practice freely evolves between painting, photography, drawing, digital art, installation, and performance. Her abstract paintings originate from a dialogue between spontaneous gesture, light, and color, where instinct combines with a sensitive reflection on the human experience.
Her work explores the inevitable passages of life, the movement of time, solitude, and the inherent fragility of our condition. Within her compositions, fragments of houses and strange animal forms sometimes appear—discreet symbols of those childhood landmarks that remain within us as our lives evolve.
Driven by a desire to create connections and resonate with her contemporaries, Beauchemin creates works that invite the viewer to recognize, in them, a part of their own journey.
The works presented at the Affordable Art Fair in New York are from her series "The Secrets." Each work bears the traces of everyday moments and personal passages—those seemingly ordinary experiences that silently contribute to transforming us.
Frédérique
Girard
Artistic approach
Frédérique's artistic practice is rooted in an intuitive approach where emotion and instinct guide each step of the creative process. Free from rules and conventions, she approaches each work as a space for exploration and freedom, where letting go plays an essential role.
Her paintings are constructed through the layering of successive coats of paint, collage, textures, and mixed media. These accumulated strata create depth, movement, and visual richness, while also revealing traces of the creative process. Each composition evolves organically, shaped by the gestures, discoveries, and adjustments that emerge throughout the process.
Influenced by her training in architecture and construction engineering, FRED remains attentive to structure and composition. She constantly seeks a balance between spontaneity and control, movement and stability, intuition and reflection.
Through her work, she develops a personal and accessible visual language, where forms, colors, and materials invite the viewer to resonate with their own emotions. Without imposing a narrative or a precise interpretation, she offers open-ended works, leaving each person free to discover their own meanings, memories, and points of connection.
Hien-Tu
Artistic approach
Life, nature, and the present moment are at the heart of Hien-Tu's artistic practice. Through acrylics and watercolors, she explores the balance between freedom and control, playing with transparency, dilution, layering, and movement to create compositions imbued with emotion and poetry.
For Hien-Tu, color is a language in itself. Each palette is chosen for its emotional resonance and unique energy, transforming her works into spaces for contemplation, reflection, and inner connection. Nourished by her life experiences, she translates intuition, sensory memory, and positive emotions into abstract forms inspired by nature.
Through floral, oceanic, and celestial themes, her work explores beauty, inner strength, and feminine energy. Her pieces are less concerned with telling a story than with evoking an emotion, an atmosphere, or a feeling.
In a world where everything moves quickly, Hien-Tu invites us to slow down, awaken our senses, and take a moment for ourselves. Each artwork is intended as an open space where everyone can project their own memories, emotions, and interpretations, and find a personal resonance within them.
Dominique
Desmeules
Artistic approach
Dominique Desmeules' work seeks to capture the essence of the places she travels through—the intense blues of the Moroccan sky, the vibrant reds of sun-drying chilies, the delicate greens of Irish valleys, or the brilliant yellows of rapeseed fields. Rather than trying to faithfully reproduce these worlds, she draws inspiration from them to create compositions where color becomes language, living matter, and emotion.
Dominique favors direct contact with materials, combining pastel pencils, handmade papers (Thai, Japanese, Chiyogami), and mixed media. This tactile approach allows her to play with transparency, layering, and the rhythm of forms, establishing a dialogue between floral and abstract landscape. Her work thus invites a sensitive immersion, oscillating between abstraction and figuration, between memory and reverie.
Through this approach, Dominique Desmeules seeks to provoke a sensory experience, where the viewer is invited to feel the vibration of colors and to enter a poetic, personal and universal space.
Louise
Binet
Artistic approach
For as long as she can remember, mosaics have always fascinated Louise Binet. These fragments, which seem innocuous taken individually, take on their full meaning when brought together to form a vibrant and harmonious whole.
This idea lies at the heart of her artistic approach. Colors, shapes, and textures are her main sources of inspiration, whether they come from nature, places, or everyday objects. She extracts fragments from them—a crack in the rock, a nuance, a texture—which she then reinterprets in her compositions.
Her process is intuitive and free. Through layering paint, collages, and textures, the works gradually take shape, without a predetermined plan. Forms appear, transform, and interact with each other, giving rise to abstract compositions where vibrant colors, transparencies, and spontaneous gestures coexist.
Through her works, she wishes to invite the viewer to stop, contemplate and let themselves be carried away, so that each line, color or texture becomes the starting point for a personal interpretation.
Stephanie
Come
Artistic approach
Stéphanie works intuitively across a rich diversity of media, including acrylic paint, pastels, charcoal, pencil, plaster, photographic collage, embroidery, and even drawings by her daughter. Subtly integrated into her compositions, these drawings become precious fragments of memory and delicate reminders of childhood. This deeply personal approach reveals a quiet vulnerability and a profound sensitivity at the heart of her artistic practice.
Collage and texture often form the starting point of her creative process. Drawn to the expressive power of color, Stéphanie allows the composition to develop organically, intuitively building layers, shapes, and gestures around the initial collage. Each work then becomes a reflection of her inner state, shaped by what she feels in the present moment.
Deeply emotional by nature, Stéphanie finds in abstraction a language to express what cannot always be named. Painting allows her to give form to these intangible emotions, to explore them freely and, ultimately, to share her own interpretation of them with the viewer.
Through abstraction and collage, she creates a delicate dialogue between precision and imperfection, control and spontaneity, memory and emotion. Her works invite us into an intimate space where fragments of life, colors, textures, and sensations meet, reminding us that some of the most meaningful things are not meant to be explained, but simply felt.
