With Chronique, Isabelle Langlais presents a dense and evocative urban vision in which Montreal architecture becomes a silent witness to the passage of time. The composition, dominated by large glass buildings, a dramatic sky, and construction elements in the foreground, conveys a city in transformation, shaped by its energy, its changes, and its memory. The artist captures the deeply emotional relationship to place that defines her practice, turning the urban landscape into a space charged with inner resonance.

Through mixed media, the surface comes alive with textures, relief, and layered effects that deepen the reading of the work. The contrasts between luminous reflections, shadowed areas, the geometry of the buildings, and the temporary presence of construction fencing create a visual tension between stability and transition. Chronique thus evokes a city experienced from within, both concrete and sensitive, where each detail seems to hold the trace of a memory, a moment, or an emotion.

L’article Chronique est apparu en premier sur Galerie du Vieux Saint-Jean.

With Lunch break, Isabelle Langlais captures a suspended moment within a Montreal urban landscape. The scene, built with strong depth, draws the eye into an alley animated by brick façades, aged signage, discreet figures, and the cool light of a winter day. The buildings seem to carry traces of time, like fragments of memory embedded in the surface.

Through mixed media, the artist enriches the canvas with textures, layered effects, and graphic details that give the work both rawness and sensitivity. The warm tones of the brickwork contrast with the pale snowy ground, creating an urban atmosphere filled with nostalgia. Lunch break evokes those ordinary moments when the city, between movement and stillness, becomes a quiet stage for personal memories and deep emotions.

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With Une nuit à Montréal, Isabelle Langlais immerses the viewer in the sensitive atmosphere of a nocturnal urban scene, where the city becomes both setting, memory, and inner landscape. True to her interest in Montreal, emotionally charged places, and fragments of personal recollection, the artist evokes a night shaped by light, contrast, and the city’s distinctive rhythm.

Through mixed media, textures and details encourage a closer, slower gaze, as though every façade, luminous accent, or shadowed area could reveal a hidden emotion. The work suggests an intimate and nostalgic Montreal, balanced between urban energy and suspended time, where the cityscape becomes the reflection of a personal memory. Isabelle Langlais’s artistic approach is closely connected to Montreal urban scenes and emotionally meaningful spaces.

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Visible sketch lines, translucent facial passages, and touches of pink, green, and yellow enrich the surface with great sensitivity. The painting evokes those solitary reflective moments associated with rainy evenings, when thoughts feel closer and emotions grow quieter. Between strength and fragility, Rainy Night captures a suspended, almost secret moment, as the figure seems absorbed in her inner world.

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With Somewhere Out There, Galina Stetco explores the profound relationship between vulnerability and protection. A young child rests beneath the reassuring presence of a female dog whose body forms both a shelter and a guardian. The scene evokes an ancient bond in which the strength of the natural world becomes a source of comfort and security for humanity.

The dog, shaped with richly textured surfaces and marked by the traces of time, carries signs of experience, resilience, and devotion. Her visible nursing form reinforces her nurturing and maternal role. She embodies a strength forged through hardship, a protective presence capable of embracing vulnerability without judgment.

Beside her, the young girl appears in all her fragility. Her outward gaze suggests both wonder and uncertainty toward the world around her. Together, the two figures create a balance between power and tenderness, instinct and innocence, past and present. Somewhere Out There reminds us that true strength often lies in the ability to protect, guide, and provide a sense of safety to those who need it most.

L’article Somewhere out there (1/8) est apparu en premier sur Galerie du Vieux Saint-Jean.

In this sculpture, Galina Stetco portrays the birth of a new world through the imagination of a young girl. In one hand she holds a brush — symbolizing the colors, possibilities, and paths she may bring into existence — while the other gently supports a small creature from her imagined universe.

The polymer resin medium allows the artist to shape the material with remarkable freedom, enhancing the sense of a world still in formation. The organic textures and expressive surfaces evoke the delicate moment when an idea begins to take shape and imagination starts transforming reality.

Galina explores the innate creative power of childhood: that inner realm where anything is possible, where boundaries have yet to be defined, and where dreams become the foundation of new realities. Shape of New World becomes a metaphor for creation, hope, and the transformative potential that exists within each of us.

L’article Shape of new world (Copie) est apparu en premier sur Galerie du Vieux Saint-Jean.

In this work, Galina Stetco embraces a direct, raw, and transparent approach to the painted gesture. Far from any desire to idealize the body or celebrate its beauty, she presents nudity as a sensitive, almost everyday reality, embedded in the very material of the canvas.

The human figure, standing frontally, asserts itself through an authentic presence. It does not seek to please the eye; it exists fully in its fragility, density, and truth. Thick textures, material traces, and tonal contrasts express the artist’s intention to show the body არა as an idealized image, but as a lived space shaped by experience.

The partially erased or darkened face deepens the sense of mystery suggested by the title, as though the work were holding something silent and intimate within it. This striking presence reveals both the vulnerability of the body and its ability to endure, to move through, to overcome. Through a free and expressive visual language, the artist reveals a human presence without artifice, where strength arises precisely from the acceptance of fragility.

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With miss BB, Christine Gagné presents a work inspired by the mythical aura of Brigitte Bardot, the world-renowned French artist and a defining figure in the collective imagination. Rather than creating a realistic portrait, the artist evokes an attitude, an elegance, and a presence: that of a woman who is at once seductive, free, and mysterious.

The black and white palette enhances the graphic quality of the work and gives the figure a timeless presence. The top hat, intense gaze, and lively drawn lines create a composition that feels both theatrical and refined. Through her expressive approach, Christine Gagné transforms this iconic reference into a personal interpretation, where femininity becomes strength, style, and symbol.

The artwork reflects the artist’s sensitive universe, where feminine figures come to life through gesture, suggestion, and emotion.

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