Pierre Morin

Pierre Morin has always felt an intense pleasure to watch, observe, feel and ultimately really see what the light reveals, a kind of transcendence of the act of looking. He says that it is primarily in the act of looking at things that are born each of his works. It is an exhilarating experience and a thrill all at once. Everything goes through your eyes and then is amplified by transforming and bouncing off the walls of the soul. For him, it is there that ‘the delights of seeing and the pleasures of painting merge”. This way to contact what surrounds him it is the foundation of his approach to figurative art. He is aware that the artistic land was and still is cultivated by many. Even knowing that he plows most likely at the same places as some of the Group of Seven, he comes down on this ground: figurative painting.

Light is another component at the base of his approach: looking for the specific role of light for each subject gives him intense sensations. He admits that there is nothing new in mentioning the fact that the light is of paramount importance in visual art. For Morin, the light remains the subtle life that runs through the work, as the energy in our bodies, drawing, subject, composition, rhythm, color, all are driven by light. For him, light a quasi-spiritual in painting.

Pierre Morin is a nature lover. He is fascinated by the wilderness, the most intact and most Canadian possible. This nature which is certainly his most significant inspiration has often been beneficial for him. Some are lost in the forest, he founds himself there. However, he would not limit himself to landscape, nature is everywhere in so many variations: in a city, in an apple, in flowers, in a body, in short, nature is everywhere, even in a dream. It is very important to him that no meaningful subject matter escapes him; he could not bear to be captive in a style that depends on a pattern or texture whatsoever, or of subject (always the same) or any other limiting features of the kind. Morin has the choice to paint the boundless nature of things, if a nail touches him it’s a safe bet that it will become a drawing or a painting.

In his work, topic imposes pace that begets composition. The colors are under the influence of light and his emotions, the drawing must always be thorough and gesture honest. He continually seeks the magic that only a mastered painting may create. He believes that a painting becomes an artwork only when it is actually lived, and when we perceive that it is looking at us.