Jessie Poitras

The painter who paints dreams.

Jessie Poitras, whose artist name is La Panthère Blanche JP, was born at Amqui, in the Bas St-Laurent (Québec, Canada). Since childhood, she has had a great passion for the arts. She first started drawing at the age of nine on a self-taught basis, and then at the age of twelve, she took her first acrylic painting lessons with a painter from her village and even began to write stories that subsequently became a complement to visual art. At sixteen, Jessie again took painting lessons with another painter, but this time in oils. It later became her main medium.
The imaginary world and dreams fascinate her a lot! At six years old, she wondered where people go when they fall asleep. Trying to stay awake to find out, she soon learned that we dream at night and got used to remembering her dreams in the morning. Since early childhood, most of her works revolve around the magical and the fantastic, they are like a window on another world and also his way of expressing certain messages.
Jessie's mission as an artist is to make people dream, bring them into the world of imagination and make them discover much more than a simple picture ...

Self-taught artist

CV
Skills and achievements

ACHIEVEMENTS
Winner of the first prize in the 25-35 years category for the work: Le maître du ciel, as part of the Vocation en Art exhibition, organized by Jeunesse Emploi in 2017.
Illustrator of a children's storybook written by the author Danielle Malenfant: Les contes de noël de mamie Danielle, published in 2017.
Author of four youth novels (unpublished) La Vallée des Mystères: Les quatre temples du Soleil, Au-delà des mondes, Terres maudites and Les Guerriers des ténèbres.
Creation of a DIY animation program for daycares.

ARTISTICS EXHIBITIONS
2020-2023
Collective exhibition : Exposition des membres chez Boréart, Granby Qc
2019-2023
Symposium : Waterloo et l'art d'aimer, Waterloo QC
2016-2019
Symposium : la Promenade des arts de Cowansville QC
2014 - 2019
Artisans fair, Venise-en-Québec, QC
2012 - 2019
Artisans fair: Église Ste-Thérèse, Cowansville QC
2018
Solo exhibition: Bibliothèque de Bromont QC
2016 – 2018
Collective exhibition: Circuit-court de Cowansville QC
Symposium : Carrefour des artistes, La Clé des champs de Dunham QC.
2015 - 2018
Artisans fair: Marché de Noël, Bibliothèque Gabrielle Giroux-Bertrand, Cowansvi...