Denise Ouellet

Colors have always fascinated me. They give life to the world around us. They set the mood of our environment. They make us live in the moment. They remind us of our fondest memories. Each color conveys an emotion, and its nuances modify its intensity. The complexity of color combinations and nuances, and the use of perspective, position the viewer in a temporality where, in his imagination, the subject comes alive, leaving the canvas to be present in the viewer's space.

My camera or camcorder allow me to choose the temporality and action in which my subject will be represented. The moments I prefer are instantaneous, because that's when the emancipating emotion at the source of my artistic impulse occurred. As long as I haven't painted it, it won't leave me.

Hyperrealism allows me to represent what the eye has lost through the speed of action. I place my subject in an environment inspired by my imagination and in such a way as to allow the persperctive to create a trompe-l'oeil. I don't color my subject, I paint the light, amplifying its shimmering reflections. I paint them with a magnifying glass and a brush with a tiny tip. Every nuance of color is an ode to the magnificence of nature. I strive to give it back its purest, most authentic, most real form, which only light allows us to perceive.

When I look at my work and the same feeling emerges in me as when I first saw the scene, then, and only then, do I show my work. What I do with light is transpose onto my canvas the moment that time has taken with it, so that the magnificence of that moment is not lost.

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