Basile Aline is a ceramic artist, painter and sculptor born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, and who now lives today in Montélimar, France. A graduate of the École des Arts Appliqués and the École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d’art, he has won many prizes throughout his career in competitions organized by prestigious art salons: Aix en Provence, Paris, Versailles, Avignon, Lyon and Montélimar. In 1994 he was decorated by the president of the French republic, Jacques Chirac, with the silver and vermeil medals of the city of Paris.
Basile Aline is first and foremost a painter who speaks on behalf of every kind of freedom. Profoundly marked by the legacy of the past, he is a man who defines himself as torn between rebellion and the search for wisdom. Always looking for justice and freedom, he expresses this commitment through vividly coloured painting and sumptuous sculpted forms. The jury benefited from his wide experience and artistic achievements.
Louisa Nicol studied at the École Des Beaux-Arts in Quebec City in 1967, then worked as a graphic designer for the Société Radio-Canada in Montreal from 1967 to 1983. Originally focused on drawing, she began to work with prints after a training period at the Graff print workshop in 1984. She has illustrated many publications. Now retired from teaching, she spends her winter running the Ars Longa Gallery in Montreal and the Sang-Neuf Art Gallery in Palmarolle, Abitibi.
The works of Louisa Nicol are part of many public collections, including the Loto-Québec collection in Montreal, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s collection of arts works, the Caisses Desjardins Collection, the Musée Pierre-Boucher in Trois-Rivières, the Quebec Government Head of protocol in Quebec City, the Maison Antoine-Lacombe in Joliette, the Conseil de la culture de Rouyn-Noranda and the Musée de Mont-Saint-Hilaire.
Born in Montreal, René Derouin is a painter, engraver and sculptor. From his house in Val David, which he built in 1973, he makes his presence felt throughout the Americas. In the course of a long and prolific career spanning 50 years, over 300 solo exhibitions have given him the opportunity to present his works in Montreal, Quebec City, Edmonton, and elsewhere in Canada, and also abroad, especially in Mexico (1992) and the United States (1984 and 1986).
In 1999, René Derouin won the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas, the Quebec Government’s highest award in the field of visual arts. In 1992, Derouin put together Migration, an installation consisting of 20,000 ceramic figurines, that was shown in Mexico and Paris. In 1994, 19,000 figurines were released into the St-Lawrence river. Since then, the Fondation Derouin, born of this public gesture of citizenship, organizes Biennial symposia to foster exchanges between artists from the three Americas. In the spring of 2006, the Mexican Government awarded René Derouin the highest distinction offered to a foreign artist, El Orden Des Aguila Azteca, in recognition of the work carried out to bring together artists from Quebec and Mexico.
Basile Aline is a ceramic artist, painter and sculptor born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, and who now lives today in Montélimar, France. A graduate of the École des Arts Appliqués and the École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d’art, he has won many prizes throughout his career in competitions organized by prestigious art salons: Aix en Provence, Paris, Versailles, Avignon, Lyon and Montélimar. In 1994 he was decorated by the president of the French republic, Jacques Chirac, with the silver and vermeil medals of the city of Paris.
Louisa Nicol studied at the École Des Beaux-Arts in Quebec City in 1967, then worked as a graphic designer for the Société Radio-Canada in Montreal from 1967 to 1983. Originally focused on drawing, she began to work with prints after a training period at the Graff print workshop in 1984. She has illustrated many publications. Now retired from teaching, she spends her winter running the Ars Longa Gallery in Montreal and the Sang-Neuf Art Gallery in Palmarolle, Abitibi.
Born in Montreal, René Derouin is a painter, engraver and sculptor. From his house in Val David, which he built in 1973, he makes his presence felt throughout the Americas. In the course of a long and prolific career spanning 50 years, over 300 solo exhibitions have given him the opportunity to present his works in Montreal, Quebec City, Edmonton, and elsewhere in Canada, and also abroad, especially in Mexico (1992) and the United States (1984 and 1986).