Kathy is originally from Maine, however, she now lives in Coteau-du-Lac,
Quebec, where her studio and art gallery are situated. She enjoys
travelling and takes every opportunity to paint while doing so.
Having had a keen
interest in the Arts from an early age, the creative process of
painting developed in the late 1980s when she first met and studied
with Tanya Axiuk. Since then, she has taken classes from the
Scottsdale Artists School, the Tucson Art Academy in Arizona, Loyola
College in Ontario and several art classes and workshops with other
internationally known artists, including a two-week Plein Air class
in Limoux, France. Though oil painting remains her preferred medium,
she has considerably broadened her techniques over the years by
working with pastels, acrylics, watercolours, mixed media, portrait
sketching, drawing and sculpture.
Serenity
Oil painting, 12 x
16
Kathy finished an
undergraduate degree in Psychology before doing her Master's degree
at McGill University in Counseling Psychology. She worked as a
teacher and counselor for many years, a background that has provided
valuable insights for the art and team-building workshops she has
been offering since 2005. In 2007, she completed the Certified
Paverpol Instructor course - a new sculpture medium from the
Netherlands - which she has also been teaching since that time.
Just Before the Storm I
Oil painting, 5 x 7
Plein Air painting is
Kathy’s passion and she paints outdoors whenever possible. When she
is not out painting, you can find her working in her studio, where
she likes to use both colour and brush strokes to interpret a still
life or a magnificent view of nature. Her goal is to continue
expressing on canvas the passion she feels while painting the beauty
she sees all around.
La lumiere du matin
Oil painting, 8 x 10
Kathy has exhibited at
many solo shows, participated in group exhibitions and in juried
shows throughout Quebec and in the United States. Her work has also
been shown in several galleries, offices and at local exhibits and
has been on permanent display at “la Galerie du Coin” in
Valleyfield, Québec since 2009. It is also in many private
collections across Canada, the United States and Austria.
Before the Storm
Oil painting, 12 x 24
The Field
Oil painting, 12 x 16
Démarche artistique
Dans la vie comme dans les arts,
Kathy a toujours été poussée par une envie d’aller plus loin; c’est
ce qui la mène à quitter les États-Unis pour s’établir à
Coteau-du-Lac en 1972, où se trouve aujourd’hui sa galerie et son
atelier de peinture. Artiste depuis son jeune âge, ce n’est qu’à la
fin des années ’80 qu’elle redécouvre sa passion pour les arts
visuels, alors qu’elle se laisse inspirer par ses cours de peinture
à l’huile avec Tanya Axiuk, artiste de renom international. Depuis
ses débuts un peu timides, Kathy a choisi de laisser libre cours à
son désir d’en apprendre plus, et c’est un parcours des plus
fascinants qui s’ensuivit! En plus de développer et de perfectionner
sa technique avec des professeurs distincts et distingués, elle
découvre sa passion pour la peinture en plein-air en s’inscrivant au
Loyalist College – une affiliation qui l’amènera à voyager de
Amherst Island en Ontario jusqu’à Limoux, en France.
Walk in the Park
Oil painting, Sold
À ce jour, Kathy se
laisse encore inspirer par la simple portée de l’ombre sur un objet;
c’est dans l’effet subtil de la lumière apparaissant sur une
composition que naît l’idée visuelle abstraite qui servira de
pulsion pour la réalisation de son prochain projet artistique. Même
si la peinture demeure le moyen qu’elle privilégie pour faire
découvrir ses œuvres, Kathy continue d’enrichir ses horizons
artistiques en s’inscrivant à des ateliers d’aquarelle, de dessin,
de pastel, de collage et de sculpture.
The Golfer
Mixed Media Statue, 12 x 20 x 57
Kathy Cayer Daigle
Coteau du Lac, Qc
450 763-5787
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