Jean Yves Crispo

Jean Yves Crispo
wildlife artist


Born in Quebec city, august 11 1951, his childhood and adolescence are within permanent contact with nature. That proximity with all that surround him will develop in passion for that nature in perpetual changes. The trees, flowers, animals are a constant source of wonderment right from his early age.
Passionate drawer, a sudden taste for painting emerge with the sightings of great masters works in his school books. He just can't but marvel in front such beauty and exactitude of these work of art. However, the farming tasks and all there obligations just don't leave enough time for him to develop his emerging passion for painting which fall in oblivion little by little. Later his work as a carpenter and family obligations will get all his time and attention for numerous years.
A Christmas gift to his daughter Maude, in 1993, will rejuvenate the flame for painting. Borrowing his daughter's paint brushes, a bit of colour on a canvas will transform that little flame for painting in a snarling fire.
Right from the beginning, it is wildlife art that take all the place, nothing better than combining two passions. From hesitant at the beginnings, his se...