Valérie O.C., artiste-peintre

Like many artists, I started by exploring landscapes, still lifes, animals, portraits, I accepted all kinds of commissions and I took up many challenges. In college, studies in Arts and Letters helped to broaden my horizons and I perfected my style before taking the leap, in the spring of 2023, as an artist-professional. Even though I am new to the industry, I was lucky enough to be noticed by Galerie Lenoir, in Old Montreal, as a permanent artist.
In recent years, I feel more confident, I want to explore materials, textures, techniques! I like large formats and large brush strokes, shimmering colors and spatula strokes.
Currently, I focus on a semi-figurative style, where well-defined lines cohabit with abstract shapes and texture. The colors are vibrant, the bodies express strength, movement, but also a certain vulnerability, certain sharp and well-defined features symbolizing the wounds of life. These wounds which give us relief, which forge our personalities, which deconstruct the perfect image that we sometimes project for others.