Guy Paquet

Born in Quebec in 19491, Guy Paquet, while leading a very accomplished sporting life which united him with nature, chose to devote himself to painting.

The silence and depth of his infinite horizons, his way of making us feel space, fascinated the public and critics from an early age. Ever since, he has continued to refine his art, basing himself essentially on a magical realism in the treatment of landscapes, and his work is riddled with signs of modernity that he interprets in an inimitable way. Immense, disproportionate spaces where we lose ourselves in often cold colors; but also always a corner, usually very small, where a soft, inviting light promises a reassuring shelter. Like Guy's warm smile.

Since the unmissable Baie-Saint-Paul exhibition, which introduced us to the artist through the glider at the first Symposium in 1982, Paquet's talent has continued to spread throughout Canada's major galleries: his audience is unconditionally moved, because with Paquet, it is the satisfaction of searching for the essential. And today he finds himself in a good place among the ranks of contemporary creators, the future masters who will have marked the history of art.