| Catherine Eberlé Artist Painter
Biography
Catherine Eberlé is an artist painter. Alsatian by her father, Flemish by her mother, she was born on December 22, 1960 in Chamalières, France, and came to Montreal at a young age. She spent a fair amount of time between France and Quebec during her youth and has kept a deep fondness for both countries. This drives her to create paintings inspired by a world sometimes real but mostly fictive.
She studied academic drawing à la Italian Renaissance under Richard Dorais. She also learns various oil painting techniques like glazes, fat over thin, chiaroscuro, sfumato, etc.Different trips in European museums gave her the opportunity to deepen her knowledge of the Great Masters. After the birth of her daughter, she studies under the painter Pierre Pivet with whom she shares an interest for fauvist painters and Cézanne.
She then starts working with oil painting and constructs her own view from multiple influences such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Cézanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, Bonnard, Klimt and Mucha among others. Light and colors are primordial to Catherine Eberlé.
Her oneiric painting tends to draw the viewer away from everyday life, leaving to each the possibility to escape reality through her art.
EDUCATION
- 1987-1988 Deepens her study of oil painting at the studio of the painter Pierre Pivet, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- 1984-1985 Oil painting lessons at the École professionnelle de peinture du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- 1983-1984 Academic drawing lessons, wash painting and watercolor with the painter Richard Dorais, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- 1982-1986 Fine Arts, History of Art, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
- 1981-1982 French studies, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
- 1979-1981 DEC in Literature, Cégep Edouard Montpetit, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.
- 1971-1972 Children's art class, primary school, Paris region, France.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2010: Boréart Gallery, Granby, Quebec, Canada. January 27th to February 14th, 2010, Ombres et Lumières ( Jury selection )
- 1998: La Maison de la Culture de Waterloo, Quebec, Canada. July 1st-31th, 1998, Les expositions de l'été à La Maison de la Culture de Waterloo, Galerie soeur Louis.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2012: Boréart Gallery, Granby, Quebec, Canada. September 5th to 30th, 2012. ( upcoming )
- 2011: Boréart Gallery, Granby, Quebec, Canada. September 21st to October 9th, 2011
- 2010: Boréart Gallery, Granby, Quebec, Canada. September 22nd to October 3rd, 2010
- 1992: Exhibition - Duo - Preview, Royal LePage, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- 1989: Galerie Kastel de Knowlton, Quebec, Canada
- 1987-1988: Galerie La Maison de l'Artisan, Saint-Cesaire, Quebec, Canada.
ASSOCIATIONS
Member of Boréart
Visual Arts Exhibition Center, Granby, Quebec, Canada.
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Centre Medical Robinson, Granby, Quebec, Canada.
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Canada, in Quebec and in Ontario.
Private collections in France.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I get my inspiration from ambiances, memories, scents, remote landscapes and interior locations; hence I am not a one subject painter.To renew the inspiration, I switch to different subjects according to mood and emotions.Whether it's about characters, interiors, still life or landscapes, I always play with light, color and texture.Sometimes light is the primary goal, the frontier between figurative and abstract being somewhat blurry.
I've always liked oil for its glazes and the way it blends, I also like acrylic which I use as a primer or main paint with glazing medium. I apply many layers of thin paint and glaze over opaque colors. So it gives a really mysterious color and a feeling of perspective and depth.I almost exclusively paint in my studio, rarely outside, using sketches I've done on site or photos of what caught my eye. I am not interested in a literal representationof the subject. My models are used as references for the first intuitive feeling.
Painting is for me a moment of reflexion and meditation.It's like a ritual to place the pigments on the palette, my brushes on the table, and sketch the drawing on the canvas.Afterwards, I leave the rest to spontaneity and alchemy.I wish to establish a contact with the viewer above all, to share these moments of evasion and awaken dreams.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
La Voix de l'Est, newspaper January 23, 2010, No 176, page 36, by Marie-Ève Lambert. «Boréart présente l'artiste Catherine Eberlé...»
La Voix de l'Est, newspaper January 30, 2010, No 182, page 37, by Marie-Ève Lambert. «Boréart...Catherine Eberlé exposera ses toiles jusqu'au 14 février.»
Week-End, Sortir. «Catherine Eberlé à Waterloo». Publications every saturdays of july, 1998. Journal La Voix de l'Est, Granby, Quebec, Canada. (saturday, july, 18 1998, Volume 64, No 22, page 30.)
Journal Le Tour de Waterloo, Quebec, Canada. SUMMER 1998. Volume 1, No 1, Page 12.«Les expositions de l'été à la Maison de la Culture de Waterloo».
SIMARD, Line, «Catherine Eberlé, La Maison de la Culture», Journal Le Waterlois, Waterloo, Quebec, Canada. July 1998, No 7, Page 18.
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