Collection: Denis Nolet

Born in Quebec City in 1964, Denis Nolet began, with the enthusiasm of a passionate artist, specialized studies in pictorial expression at the age of nine. These studies led him to experiment with several styles of expression, before moving towards the meticulous representation of urban scenes. He achieved great success by selling paintings in the Old Capital, which allowed him to live solely from his art from the age of 20. While producing at a regular pace, he continued his studies in visual arts at Laval University.

Denis Nolet prefers the mystery of the night to the rays of the sun, which explains his penchant for the colors he uses. A night owl himself, the artist works while people sleep. A complicity is created between him and the world of sleep, which he knows how to take advantage of. He loves to exploit this moment when the pace of life slows down in nature. He paints a poetic world in which the harmony of forms bathes in rest and serenity.

Technique Preferring moonlight to sunlight, his paintings are scenes saturated with the romanticism of the night. With an evocative brushwork in the manner of Seurat and a palette of infinite hues, Denis Nolet creates a mirage of his medium in which he seems to transform oil paint into soft, smooth fabric.

Approach “My Old Quebec was my truant school, I learned more there than on the school benches. I stripped the streets of what cluttered them. What was offered to my gaze was the urban universal and a hymn to the night. It was romantic stealth and a certain idea of ​​human nature. It was beautiful.”