Eliane Saheurs

Eliane Saheurs traded one homeland of spectacular mountains for another, and found her artistic voice between ancient stability and endless change. Landscapes, variously abstracted, are her muse, and they crackle action and life. What the viewer sees is up to the viewer, as Saheurs, even at her most literal, makes no orders. Her scale and perspective fire the imagination, and only the artist’s reverence for our rugged land is indisputable.


by Peter Simpson March 2021

Eliane Saheurs came to painting through an early introduction to photography, where unexpected things happen in the process of making art, and sometimes make everything better.

When a young Saheurs worked with her father in his darkroom, and later in the field and darkroom with her mineralogist/geologist husband, she would have seen how curious shapes appear on fresh prints — those small but larger-than-life echos of dust, an eyelash hair, a smudge on a lens, or a tiny, Cohen-esque crack where the light gets in. The shapes were blemishes, but a blemish can beautify, like the right scar in the right place on the right face.

Those serendipitous glitches may have later inspired Saheurs, for such shapes energetically populate her paintings. Here it is not...

Commercial College in Bern.
Arts at Algonquin college Ottawa
Ottawa School of Art
University of Ottawa (Art history)
Artist residence in North Adams Massachusetts
Workshops with professional artists in Switzerland, Canada and US.

2024 Gallery Santini, Ottawa, ON
2023 Artbox Zurich, Switzerland
2023 Alpha$Omega Gallery, Ottawa
2022 Alpha&Omega Gallery, Ottawa
Galerie Old Chelsea, Quebec February 20 - March 13
2019 Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron
2016 Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Espaces inédits
2015 Gallery Sivarulrasa, Almonte
2014 Trinity Gallery, Shenkman Center for the Arts
2013 Galerie Bergeron, peintures récentes, October
2011 Trinity Gallery, Shenkman Center for the Arts
2010 Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa:
2009 Trinity Gallery, Shenkman Center for the Arts,
2006 Galerie J.Cl. Bergeron, Ottawa
2005 Art Rental and Sales, Ottawa Art Gallery
2003 Gloucester Gallery, Ottawa
2002 Alliance Française Ottawa: Recent paintings
2001 Signatures Gallery, Ottawa: Peintures récentes
2000 Gallery Telpaz Kanata: Recent paintings
1999 Galerie Château Cartier, Aylmer
1998 Municipal Gallery, Visual Arts Orléans
1998 Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1997 Atrium Gallery, Nepean, Ontario
1996 Galerie J.C. Bergeron, Ottawa: Monotypes
1994 Ottawa International Airport: Landforms
1994 Gloucester City Hall: Forces de la terre
1993 Maison de la culture de Gatineau
1993 Galerie Intersection, Ottawa...