Joan Dumouchel was born in Montreal in 1953. She studied at the Professional School of Commercial Art and graduated in Visual Arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal, then continued her training in contemporary art in Normandy (France).

After teaching visual arts for around ten years, Joan Dumouchel devoted himself exclusively to studio work.

Dumouchel's characters are inhabited by the curious and original atmosphere of the circus world, which the artist discovered thanks to her daughter... In 2004, during a visit to the Carmagnole festival, she was captivated by the stilt walkers, from whom she draws inspiration to this day.

The themes addressed, supported by the artist's mastery and his treatment of the subjects, give Joan Dumouchel's works an intense vitality, tempered by the dreamlike quality of the atmospheres with which they are imbued: by contemplating his paintings, we understand that the magical universe of dreams is within our reach.