BIOGRAPHY
MO (Monique Crépault) is a visual artist who shares her time between Montreal and Puerto Vallarta for several years now.
She has studied fine arts, literature and set design (National Theatre School of Canada) and exhibited her photographs, tempera paintings, engravings, sculptures, land art and works on paper in numerous galleries and museums in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and many other Canadian cities.
Her work is part of private and public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada. MO’s new series of paintings, created in her studio in the heart of Old Vallarta, is set in luminous, colorful and often dreamlike environments.
Her use of acrylic is reminiscent of her egg tempera paintings, using the ancient technic in order to play with layers of colors and bring forth the light and vividness of her subjects. Under bright surrealistic skies, alone or in groups, men and women enjoy a day at the beach.
The strong colors are underlined by dark contours that give them a feeling of religious stained glass, or of precious jewels. MO’s paintings recapture the essence of those magic moments, when one perceives the beauty and ephemerality in all things.
She has studied fine arts, literature and set design (National Theatre School of Canada) and exhibited her photographs, tempera paintings, engravings, sculptures, land art and works on paper in numerous galleries and museums in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and many other Canadian cities.
Her work is part of private and public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada. MO’s new series of paintings, created in her studio in the heart of Old Vallarta, is set in luminous, colorful and often dreamlike environments.
Her use of acrylic is reminiscent of her egg tempera paintings, using the ancient technic in order to play with layers of colors and bring forth the light and vividness of her subjects. Under bright surrealistic skies, alone or in groups, men and women enjoy a day at the beach.
The strong colors are underlined by dark contours that give them a feeling of religious stained glass, or of precious jewels. MO’s paintings recapture the essence of those magic moments, when one perceives the beauty and ephemerality in all things.