Daniel Marcoux

Improvising with free bold strokes, like the action painters of the fifties were enthusiastically doing while exploring new ways to push the boundaries of creativity. Painting with enthusiasm, focus and energy, with a rich distribution of colors and nuances on the palettes, divided between warm and cold colors.
The sources of my inspiration were impressionism, lyrical abstraction, abstract expressionism (Riopelle, Pollock, Ferron, de Kooning, etc). I sometimes tend to leave my work unfinished, for it to breathe, and to leave it unresolved, as it often happens with life’s events. It’s important for me to give free reins to my inspiration, to keep the enthusiasm. Thus my work is not formatted, and not done with marketing in mind. My inspiration is free and my artwork might move in different and unpredictable directions. Where does inspiration come from? Is it from me, or is « me » blocking inspiration? How can the canal for creativity be wide open?

After spending some time working with technology (3d animation, teaching drawing on computers) I found that technological artworks did not move me. I rediscovered the pleasure of using the body in creating art and the quality of human gestures. I also appreciate the imperfection associate...

Formal education (painting) college and university = graphic design,

In my studio, in Montreal and in my atelier in Eastman.