Vernissage: Thursday, February 5 at 6 pm
Exhibition: February 6 to 28, 2004
Exhibition Press Release:
The McClure Gallery is pleased to present a new series of large-format oil paintings and dry pastels by Suzanne Olivier. Olivier paints landscapes of the imagination, fantastically melancholic, sun-drenched or tormented, and always completely unreal. Her sprawling, lushly coloured paintings illustrate her poetic sensitivity to the rhythms found in nature. The viewer is immersed in a sensual world of fields and water, trees and shrubs, skies and mountains.
Suzanne Olivier, born in Montreal, presently lives and works in Godmanchester, Quebec. She received a fine arts degree from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montréal in 1965. From 1967 to 1975 she worked in the animation department at the National Film Board, and from then on she has devoted herself to painting. Olivier has presented her work in numerous exhibitions including solo exhibitions at La Folie des Arts Gallery in Montreal and Marianne Friedland Gallery in Toronto. Her work is included in many public collections including those of the Canada Council Art Bank, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Teleglobe Canada and Xerox Canada. Suzanne Olivier is represented by La Folie des Arts in Montreal and La Malbaie.