Jeannine Blais Art Gallery


Artist presentation

Nicole Taillon

Born on April 12, 1955, in Sainte-Monique, a village in the Lac Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Nicole Taillon grew up in a working-class environment and inherits her father's manual skill and taste for precision.

Attracted by everything life has to offer, she studied psychology and mathematics, theatre and science, with the same appetite which carried her from drawing towards graphism and contemporary design.

So for four or five years, Nicole Taillon produced gouache painting marked by high degree of precision, similar to Hyperrealism, and devoted primarily to personal memories. 1980 marked the beginning of an interlude using silk-screen printing portraying, for the most part, rural landscapes dominated by a preoccupation with light and graphism.

1982 saw a return to painting, this time in acrylics, and total submersion in a torment of inspiration, in witch are mongled nostalgia and melancholy, anguish and a haunting fear of dissolution and loneliness.

Then driven by the obsession to charge each new painting with a social message capable of composting for its apparent futility, Taillon ardently turned to sculpture, searching, in the complexity of molding and founding techniques, for a distraction from her haunting fears, and at the same time for the opportunity to create the emblematic figures of the " People" who inhabit her imaginary world.

Since she started exhibiting her works in 1980, Nicole Taillon has won a number of prizes and distinctions, and her works, which include a bronze mural five meters wide, from part of many private and business collections.