Breaking the ice Sculpture

I am a young artist born in the Iles-de-la-Madeleine, a beautiful archipelago in eastern Canada. Returned to practice arts in my home region after studying communication, visual arts and marine biology, I work with glass at La Méduse, in the workshop where my father, who is a glassblower as well, has passed on me his know-how and passion for working with glass. Today, firmly rooted in my practice and my environment, it is the encounters between glass and people that are at the heart of my artistic approach. I look for the common thread, link, bridge that will bring out a new approach to the material I touch. I create and practice in Îles-de-la-Madeleine, in the heart of the Gulf of St. Lawrence since 2013. ARTIST STATEMENT What is living together on an island? In an island environment, people live tight. Everyone knows each other, everyone lives nearby. Impossible to flee. No running away. Welcome to limited territory. Influenced by the island environment from which I come, I am interested in this proximity imposed by the territory. Through my glass creations, I explore the "living together". Thus, I create pieces of glass from broken pieces of blown glass. I use these recycled elements and melt them together, flat. In an oven, under different temperatures, I let express the personality and the character of each piece of glass. The works thus created, after a few days in the oven, are sometimes superb and sometimes curiosities. First, there is the meeting between the work and myself. I like to explore these reactions of matter, they provoke in me emotions that I want to share. I am always amazed by the incongruous beauty and uniqueness of the works created, in the transparency of the colors as well as in the shapes and the texture. Once my works out of the oven, they evoke for me poems that I want to join to them. Then comes the desire that the work meets other people and settles somewhere where it will come to life in the light of day. My artistic approach is a search for the "invisible link". I seek harmony in the mixture of glass, in the meeting of disparate pieces of glass. Through my insular eye, I look at the world in which we live, with its differences and plurality. I find these differences beautiful and I try to create a link between them, by subject matter.