Mike Tremblay

My paintings stand at the edge of recognition.
Something almost forms.
Almost remembered.
They do not describe memory.
They awaken it.
An image rises.
Withdraws.
Not invention.
Ambiguity, carefully held.
Emergence - slow.
Event - sudden.
Both concerned with the moment
before declaration.
A seam.
A line.
A bleed.
The smallest shift
refuses completion.
The surface holds imbalance.
The viewer remains -
suspended.

In Toronto I ran an art brokerage business which enabled me to work with interior designers and others on the placement of art in the workplace as well as in the home.

When I worked as a consultant at ATKearney in London, we often invited clients to our offices in Berkeley Square to view possible corporate art for acquisition. I enjoyed working with the curators for these shows and introducing our clients to the art and meeting the artists. I am keen to engage with those who have an interest of art in the workplace or designers looking for art.

As a painter of abstracts I have an historical interest in abstract expressionism, futurism, Japanese abstraction and interesting modern and contemporary painters charting new directions. I hope I am one of them.

I lead workshops for adults on free expression.

My paintings have homes in the US, Canada, Belgium, United Kingdom, Malta, and France.

I am a Canadian having lived in the UK, Belgium, Malta and now in France.

I have benefitted from the Turps Art School mentoring programme in London UK.

I have a doctorate in applied psychology from University of Toronto and a career as an advisor in healthcare and life sciences with a focus on decision making, artificial intelligence and ...

Forthcoming, "Dissonance". MangeTout Collective, France 2027
Expo. new work, MangeTout Collective, France 2026
Dialoguons Entre Nous, France, 2023-2024
Magie, Imagination, Interpretation, France 2023
Group Exhibitions, France, 2021, 2022
Mystere & Metamorphosis, France, 2021
Textiles et Peintures, France, 2020, 2021
Exhibition of Abstract Imaginary Botanicals, France, 2020-2021
Words and Art, Gallery Manivel, France, 2020
Elemental, EDF Energy Nuclear Power Station, Dungeness, Kent UK. 2017
Chromophilia, solo exhibition, Evegate Gallery, Kent, UK. 2016
Beyond Words, Smallhythe Studio, Kent, UK. 2016
Godinton House Art Show and Sale, Ashford, Kent, UK 2010, 2014, 2015
West End Gallery, Smarden, Kent, UK. 2011
Tulip Salon, London. 2010
South East Open Studios, Kent UK 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015
Val Gould Gallery, Sandwich, Kent, UK 2009-10
Carmen’s Gallery, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2008
The Pumphouse, Niagara on the Lake, Canada. 2007
Burlington Cultural Centre, Ontario, Canada. 1982-6
Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario Canada. 1978