Eric Guenette

Eric Guenette is an American painter currently living in Portugal. He primarily utilizes common household paints and materials to create abstract works such as Latex house paint, spray paint; simple wood for structural decorative framing and canvas and fiberboard for surface materials. His paint application utilizes small pieces of cut framing wood or recycled plastic used as scrapers and rarely applied with brushes. The work has an intentionally rough, imperfect and organic feel all the way through his process.

One of his biggest artistic influences was his grandfather Marcel, who was a golf shoe maker at Footjoy in Brockton, Massachusetts for thirty years. "He could build anything with his hands. He would often be found in his small wood shop behind his house in Winter Park, Florida, toiling in the central Florida heat creating, fixing and repairing all sorts of things. One day, he ripped apart a lawnmower and created at go-cart with random pieces of wood for my sister and I to play with. His spirit inspires me to this day. This is why it is important to to me to be involved in every aspect of the artwork, from the construction of the homemade frames, stretching house painter drip cloths as canvas material and finishing most of...

Palm Beach State College
25 years professional graphic design

2024
Abstrac.Ted - Feature Nov

2023
El Verde Inn (Rio Rancho) - Dec/Feb 2024
Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre (Albuquerque) - Jan/Dec
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour (2023)

2022
Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre - Jul/Dec
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2021
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2020
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2019
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2018
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2017
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2016
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour

2015
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour