Collection: Viviane Gruais

Originally from France, Viviane Gruais has worked and lived in Quebec since 2010. After receiving several training courses in visual arts from her parents, multidisciplinary artists and teachers at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she began literary studies which would eventually bring her back to painting in 1998.

The artist's work is essentially inspired by the reading of the landscape and the territory, both urban and landscaped. Territory, memory, geodesy of the terrain, trace, imprint, all these connotations lead him to purify and remove the invasive ocular to experience a new dialogue with the panorama. The pictorial writing that emerges immediately becomes a framework, the masses calm down, the voids and the fullness take shape, collide and end up transcribing the essence of the feeling in this timeless decoding. Her creativity is constantly renewed by the contemplation of nature. These living forces ranging from birth to transformation, from blossoming to aging of the material lead her to create landscape states combining lightness, strength and dynamism. The entire creative process fascinates the artist. Viviane has always loved to associate and integrate materials in her work. The integration of sand, papers (books, poems, newspapers etc.) painted with tar, ash and inks give some of her works a primitive language. In her latest work on transparent acrylic plate, she attempts to freeze the imprint and memory of the landscape in ice. In this creative process, a more minimalist writing is required.