Francois Chartier

After evolving in the advertising world for over 25 years as an art director and an illustrator I felt the need to pursue in greater depth my own artistic journey. Painting was the only logical direction I could take as my experience, personal taste, longings and training, had prepared me for this path. I live and work in Montreal born in 1950After evolving in the advertising world for over 25 years as an art director and an illustrator I felt the need to pursue in greater depth my own artistic journey. Painting was the only logical direction I could take as my experience, personal taste, longings and training, had prepared me for this path. Since realism has always been of tremendous interest to me it was natural that this was the direction my art should take. Although my paintings are realistic my goal is to create, through the layering of mediums and the play of the brush, the illusion of depth and sense of presence beyond what is found in photographs. My choice of painting subject is usually dictated by the rhythm, shape, color, light and shadow I obtain by staging objects, flowers or people together. The themes of many of my paintings explore the relationship of light with reflective and transparent surfaces, as they echo my ...