Hélène Routhier

On the road...
...to the places where I live, I was born in the Saguenay. In summer, I breathed in the open sea of Lac St-Jean. My father walked the forest. In 1974, I moved to Montreal, the city of my heart and passions. Today, I divide my life in 2; Gaspé has married Montreal and offers me landscapes, rivers and winters.

Becoming
I became a psychologist. Then, in 1997, I met painting for good; and it was in 2017 that printmaking seduced me, making me a multidisciplinary artist and professional member of RAAV.

Emerging, learning and creating
It was during my participation, as a psychologist, in a basic training seminar in therapeutic hypnosis that the urge to paint emerged in me; a need to give life to my inspiration. It was a very powerful moment, and when I realized that works of art were emerging from my hands, it was like giving birth to a 3rd child.
I learned, and still learn today, from self-taught and established professional artists.
I'm fascinated by abstraction, the chance of departure and becoming. I approach the medium and the material in a dialogue with the random, I love the unexpected, and I create unique works that interpret nature, the territory and their durability.
Montreal carries me with its energy and its citizens of all origins. Gaspé moves me with the power of its mountains, rivers and tides, summer and winter alike, especially in winter.

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