Sylvain Lupien

My journey
Drawing and painting have inhabited me since my childhood. From a distant memory, on the corner of the table, alone, I plunge into my dream all in color. Silence teaches me to listen to colors in dialogue with my heart. Self-taught painter, I am fascinated by the art of the icon (tempera), then I seek transparency and contrast through watercolor, finally arises the meeting of acrylic. This new friend captivates my heart. It gives me the pleasure of bright color, transparency and brightness. I am intrigued by his ability to create by himself a work to contemplate. I am his instrument to deposit the pigments on the support. All these colors invite me to freedom of expression without the slavery of reproduction. I sing the hymn of the rule of painters without rules. I draw from my heart the spiritual rhythm and movement of life.
When I start a painting, I don't know what I'm going to do. Sometimes there are colors that excite me, they intoxicate my soul. I desire them and I want to meet them on my canvas. I invite them and they call their friends. I am not logical in the choice of colors. It is my sensitivity that drives my choice. Above all, I seek their joy of cohabitation. When I lay them on the canvas, I listen to what my sensitivity says. I question my emotion, my affectivity. Am I at peace and joyful before their sisterhood? When everything seems to solidify, there is nothing more to change, I feel that I received this painting as a gift, that it evolved in my inner world and was waiting for me to give it its visibility. The color pigments float on the water that guides my hand to be sculpted or caressed by the spatula and brush. In pursuit of beauty in pictorial art, transported by joy and the strength to live, I wish to communicate this energy to the contemplative eye. Sometimes in intimacy with this ephemeral beauty, my heart sorrows to see her disappearance under the brushstroke or the momentum of the spatula. My consolation is this vision that gladdened my heart. This unique moment was granted to me as a grace that invites me to continue my quest in this adventure on the road to chaos arousing the impulse of love and creativity. I paddle in this colorful water to dock on the banks of the waking dream. Stranded on this beach, I reveal myself in my fragility and inner nakedness. This burst of acrylic captures my breath and exposes my essence to the contemplative eyes that absorb the fluidity of my soul in the guise of color and shape. My daily goals are the joy and pleasure of creating in mixed media with unsuspected colors.
Registered from September 2021 to March 2024, I discover in the art studios of Mrs. Céline Girard in Magog, the vagaries of abstraction.
2022 - Premium member of the Magog Arts Centre, Art'M
2023 - August : solo exhibition ' a heart, moved by color, seeks beauty. At Mansonville Library, Potton, 2 Vale Perkins