When your view of the world looks different from how most perceive it, maybe it’s due to how you have always understood and interpreted things. It’s not a wrong approach, not a fault or mixed wiring in your brain or character, you are simply uniquely you. For a long time I had the notion that being an artist was the reason I often feel like an outsider but then I observe other artists, I don’t get that impression as some of them seem quite comfortable in social settings. Then I… Read more Outsider →
x Young Girl with Doll / Jeune Fille avec Poupée@ Circé pastel on paper / pastel sur papier Young Woman model / Jeune Femme posant@ Circé oil on canvas / huile sur toile20″ x 24″ Still life / Nature Morte@ Circé oil on canvas / huile sur toile12″ x 16″ Still Life Monochrome / Nature Morte monochromatique@ Circé oil on canvas / huile sur toile8″ x 10″ Straw hat, apples and pear / Chapeau de paille, pommes et poire@ Circé oil on canvas / huile sur toile12″ x 16″ A… Read more Pre-Transition Art →
Young Woman@ Circé charcoal on paper / fusain sur papier Stump / Souche@ Circé oil on canvas / huile sur toile12″ x 16″ View from our old house in St-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Qc. / Vue de notre ancienne maison à St-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Qc.@CircéOil on canvas / huile sur toile16” x 20” A view from a house we once had that looked out from a hill down at route 343 north in St-Alphonse-Rodriguez in the Lanaudière region of Quebec. Une vue à partir d’une maison que nous avions il y a plusieurs années de… Read more Other Paintings and Drawings since 2001. →
Smashing Images© Circé oil on canvas / huile sur toile30in. x 40in. In this piece I address how for many women, we fight with body image issues, and often deal with self-loathing as a result of being told by the media that there is but one acceptable body type ( airbrushed and photoshopped to the X degree ). It is the breaking of that mirror of how we perceive ourselves, also the not wanting to see our bodies and maybe even the break from all the stereotypes we are constantly being… Read more Feminist Paintings →
Years ago, back around nineteen ninety-nine, I bought Eve Ensler’s book “ The Vagina Monologues “ and would read it and cry as I hoped as I had since a… Read more Vulva Paintings and Drawings →
