Myriam Sauvé

Artistic field : Visual arts, Arts and crafts

Bio

Myriam sauvé was born in St-Zotique and spent her youth on the shores of Lac St-François. As a teenager in the 70s, she dabbled in all kinds of arts and crafts. It was during this period that she designed large wall hangings, combining haute-lisse weaving and macramé. In the '80s, she studied art at CEGEP du Vieux Montréal and UQUAM, where she obtained a BFA and a teaching certificate. Since the pandemic, she has also been making montages with foam. As a creator, and by getting involved as an artist/citizen in her local community, she tries to do her bit to raise public awareness of the many environmental challenges posed by the loss of biodiversity and climate change. 

Approach

I paint with pigments that I dilute with a very liquid acrylic medium that I spread directly onto the canvas. In a very accidental way at first, I then rework the color effects and textures I find interesting with a brush to bring out figurative elements. I create my painting from the shapes, stains and random movements suggested by the canvas. This instinctive, spontaneous impulse gives rise to inner landscapes and traces of familiar worlds.

Some ceramic sculptures, with their organic architecture, reflect my attachment to the human body as a framework for my work, while others are transformed into fountains. Over the years, I've discovered that the trickle of water, its flow, its meanders, fascinates me. Water's impermanence, its dynamic flow, the seasons and their metamorphoses, where everything dies and changes continuously, have created the framework that shapes my work.

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