artist Bio
Program of Completion: Fine Arts Certificate, 1996
Michèle LaRose is a painter based in Kingston, Ontario. She studied fine art in Québec City, Montréal and Brockville. She has a B.A. (Hons) in Art History from Queen`s University in Kingston and a Certificate in Fine Arts from St. Lawrence College. Michèle worked for many years with the federal government in the cultural field, before moving to the private sector. In 2002 she turned to painting. Michèle has focused primarily on painting, with forays into printmaking and book illustration. Her focus is abstraction and colour, the nature of which she plumbs for new insights. She is intrigued by the interaction of colour and form and the spontaneous and intuitive leaps that occur. Of equal interest is the function of the brain, which seeks to decipher any image into recognizable shapes, and how this reveals itself no matter how un-representational the paintings are. Michèle has exhibited extensively since 1994. She illustrated 2 books of poetry and in 2018 she published a book of her paintings with poetry by herself and Bruce Kauffman entitled “The Elm Suite”. She is a member of CARFAC, the Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre in Kingston, the Union Gallery at Queen’s University, the Organization of Kingston Women Artists and the Agitated Plover Salon, an artists’ collective established in Kingston and active until late 2014. For more information see: www.michelelarose.ca, Facebook: Michele M LaRose , Instagram: @michelelaroseart
Contact Info: michelelaroseart@gmail.com
About the Artwork
Bending the Curve #M1
coloured pencil on black paper
11” x 10"
$375
When the pandemic first reared its ugly head I had a difficulty concentrating. Worrying about family and friends, I decided to work on small pieces in coloured pencil that became the Bending the Curve series. It was my way of working so I could pick up and drop quickly when distraction overtook me. No paint drying on the palette, less consequential than canvases, more like meditation. So in some ways it felt mindless and repetitive, certainly instinctive in the sense that my mind was often elsewhere. After completing 46 drawings I was finally able to refocus on painting.
Bending the Curve #M12
coloured pencil on black paper
11” x 10"
$375
When the pandemic first reared its ugly head I had a difficulty concentrating. Worrying about family and friends, I decided to work on small pieces in coloured pencil that became the Bending the Curve series. It was my way of working so I could pick up and drop quickly when distraction overtook me. No paint drying on the palette, less consequential than canvases, more like meditation. So in some ways it felt mindless and repetitive, certainly instinctive in the sense that my mind was often elsewhere. After completing 46 drawings I was finally able to refocus on painting.
Bending the Curve #M14
coloured pencil on black paper
11” x 10"
NFS
When the pandemic first reared its ugly head I had a difficulty concentrating. Worrying about family and friends, I decided to work on small pieces in coloured pencil that became the Bending the Curve series. It was my way of working so I could pick up and drop quickly when distraction overtook me. No paint drying on the palette, less consequential than canvases, more like meditation. So in some ways it felt mindless and repetitive, certainly instinctive in the sense that my mind was often elsewhere. After completing 46 drawings I was finally able to refocus on painting.