Nathalie Frenière

Nathalie Frenière was born in Montreal, Canada in 1967. From an early age, she developed her creativity in drawing and music. Her oil paintings exude a serene, calming atmosphere. She uses a palette knife and thinned oil to create vaporous, enigmatic, abstract vistas – at once representational and abstract landscape. She studied graphic design and worked as a graphic designer for 15 years. Nathalie attended several painting workshops in Montreal and studied the techniques of the great masters in Paris. Including the Impressionist movement.

Since 2006 she has dedicated herself to her artistic career. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe and Brazil. Her work is included in public, private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Recently, she exhibited in Florence, Italy, in 2023 for a duo exhibition at the Art Armando Xhomo Gallery, as well as in Brazil in 2014 at the Show de Bola exhibition project in Rio de Janeiro during the FIFA, for which she represented Ontario, Canada. She also took part in 2011 at the Mont-Saint-Hilaire Museum of Fine Arts in Artists’ Palettes, Claude Bouchard Collection, alongside some of the greatest names in Canadian and Quebec painting (Marcelle Ferron, Marcel Barbeau, Henry Masson, Bruno Bobak, etc.). Her work is represented in art galleries throughout Ontario and Quebec, Canada. Nathalie has received several awards including (Woman of the Year 2014) in the Arts category in Ontario, Canada and was a juror for the Ontario Arts Council in 2015. Numerous articles have been written about her artistic career in various countries.

Her works represent semi-abstract landscapes capturing the immensity of moving skies. They are painted with diluted oils that she uses with a spatula, her technique creating vaporous effects and elaborate fades where she brings together abstract and figurative language. Her works take shape from her imagination, they are instinctive, she does not seek to reproduce nature, but an interpretation of her inner vision.

Lise B. L. Goulet

A Franco-Ontarian born in Timmins in 1957, she graduated from the University of Ottawa in Education and Visual Arts, and holds a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology and Creativity from the same institution.

Trained as a printmaker but a ceramist by inclination, she studied with master Makoto Yabé at the Bennington College of Art (Vermont, United States) and developed a body of work using the RAKU firing method, using slabs shaped into high and low reliefs.

Created the Fondation Clément-Bérini Foundation (https://www.fondationClementBerinifoundation) and curated exhibitions.

A founding member of the Bureau des regroupements des artistes visuels de l’Ontario (BRAVO), her work has been regularly exhibited, cited and collected since the 1990s. She pursued a career as a visual arts teacher in high schools in Orléans and Ottawa before moving into management work in arts education at the provincial level: responsible for the creation of the first secondary arts education curriculum written entirely in French and managing the resulting course outlines (1998-2002). Created the Specialized Arts Program (PSA), now renamed the Arts Academy, for the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-est (CCECE) at École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges (2003). Has been President and Executive Director of the Association francophone pour l’éducation artistique en Ontario (AFÉAO see www.afeao.ca) since 2018. From 2004 to 2015, she was the education officer responsible for the arts education file for French-language schools from grades 1 to 12 at the Ministry of Education in Toronto.