Dolce Vita # 5 : Oil : 18 x 24
SOLD
Dolce Vita # 6 : Oil : 18 x 24
SOLD
Green Grapes on Red : Oil : 24 x 24
$2,150.00
Scattered Grapes : Oil : 20 x 30
$2,200.00
Ingredients 3 : Oil : 24 x 24
$2,150.00
Fruitagie : Oil : 24 x 36
$2,900.00
Classic White : Oil : 24 x 18
$1,700.00
Berry Prep : Oil : 12 x 24
$1,350.00
Danièle Lemieux is a professional artist based in Montréal. She was born in Rosemere, Quebec in 1959.
Her work is acclaimed for its fusion of contemporary composition with a classic painterly style and has been reviewed in newspapers, magazines, books and on television. Her style is unique and people appreciate her work for its quiet simplicity and poetic statements honouring everyday objects.
Danièle graduated from Dawson College in 1979 with a degree in graphic design and was a respected art director and commercial illustrator for 20 years. Meanwhile, she kept her first love for fine art alive by continuing her studies for many years at the Visual Art Centre in Westmount, Quebec, carving out time to paint between commercial assignments. For the past 12 years Danièle has devoted herself to painting full time.
Artist's Statement:
My work is a celebration of humanity as represented by the universally familiar.
I seek to instill the commonplace with the same reverence given by 17th century masters to objects denoting wealth and social position. As an antidote to modern day excessiveness, my deliberate choice and treatment of objects is an invitation to revisit the quiet dignity and poetry of the basic form. Objects become icons; valued for usefulness, not decoration; acquired through need, not through want. Stripped of artifice, they are symbolic of the desire to return to that which is true.
My compositions are often loosely based on the classic triangle and are centered in the picture plane. This combination allows for a calm balance that can border on the spiritual. My artist's eye edits out the superfluous, seeking harmony and peace, offering the viewer a place where order replaces chaos.
