Voyer, Hugues    biography

Callway Falls Oil on canvas 36" X 48" December 2002 Thaw of waterfalls in spring Sketched transparencies Sketched transparencies on butternut wood Edouard Lacroix Oil on canvas 36" X 72" May 2003 An entrepreneurial pioneer of Beauce, Lacroix was elected minister to the Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1925 Piano Painted transparencies on wood The piano of M. Joffre Grondin, St-Georges de Beauce Tara blanche Oil on canvas 24" X 50" September 2003 Buddhist philosophy and portrait of a couple Train Oil on canvas 30" X 50" October 2003 Biography In my temporal universe, the present is directly based on the past, allowing the past to emerge visually before the viewer affected by the scenes, scenes defined in an instant of inspiration, but influenced by a sincerely experienced emotion. No sentimentality, but a great sensitivity in pictoral expression. Grandson of the opera composer J. Ulric Voyer, I was born in St-Romuald, near Quebec, on December 4, 1948. Born into a family of artists and artisans, I have been devoted to art since childhood. I do not identify myself as being representative of any particular artistic school or style. Instead, it is in my environment where I find beautiful images, and in my imagination are visions existing between poetry and reality. A painter in love with detail, I like to transcribe a vision of the past still warmed by the feelings it gave me. In that way, I believe I share certain affinities with some painters from the past. Like them, I do restoration of paintings and conservation of church frescos. Based on this experience, I developed a painting technique on wood which I perfected by making transparencies on furniture. It was after an exhibit of these pieces of furniture in Drummondville that I discovered a cabinetmakers' professional association, the APEQ (Association professionnelle des ébénistes du Québec). Since then, I made an agreement with the Association to teach this technique known as transparency at the École d'ébénisterie et de métiers d’art Allain Guillion. I am member of the family of Gilles Bizier, librarian at the Laurentian Forestry Centre. My Internet site can be accessed at www.quebexport.com/devoyer