JAJAwhales

The art as always been a part of my life; I remember drawing even before I could write. I guess I was born with a gift.
Sometime life takes you away from it, into some others directions or for work or for a career and you end up having to put your brushes away for a while. Therefore, I did so for many years but I choose a career where creativity was necessary and began to work in the beauty industry as a stylist. I became successful but with operating my own business, I could never find enough time to go back to painting seriously. In 2009, after twenty-five years in hairdressing, I put my scissors away and got the brushes out of the closet.
I started painting again;to be a painter remains consistent for me. I tried to work with differents mediums but for expressing ideas through my gift, using oil on canvas is my first choice. I also play a little with photography, my husband and had a photography studio in the Yukon and I learned the trade from him, he is a very good photographer and was specializing in portrait. I did boudoir photography for a couple of year and got quite good at it.
I consider myself an artist regardless of my lack of formal education in visual arts, I never took an art class in my life;I guess this is compensated with feeling in my soul the warmth of the love of the art and the vibrancy of colors. I need to create... Always!
I stive towards improving my techniques as a painter as much as possible and I am working on getting my work seen by more people.
I produced thirty five paintings from march 2011 to december 2011.
I have been a busy bee!
My paintings are always in oils on canvas and are representational. I layer paint repeatedly and I like mixing my colors on the canvas.
Making art heals, teaches, challenges, calms and connects soul to soul.
Throughout the process of creating a canvas, sometimes, I feel an old soul guiding my hand...

My paintings are strictly about marine mammals and the ocean. I have a connection with the water. I am a scuba diver and the under water world is my place to escape from the world above. I love all animals, ( more than humans often ) but whales captivate me above all. I would like with my art to educate and help to protect these beautiful animals.
These mammalian cousins of us are charismatic, intelligent, and often highly social. They are also tremendously important as indicators of the health of our oceans and waters.
I am privileged to live by the shores of the St-Lawrence , in Quebec, where you can observe the belugas whales, the mink whales and the humpback whales. You can see them right from shore, NOT CAPTIVES ,but free in their natural environment.
I am against encouraging marine parks and zoos who are displaying marine mammals for the entertainment of humans. This is unnatural and cruel, I will never encourage that!
I would like , through my work to show the beauty and fragility of these gentles giants, I would like to help people to understand the importance of protecting them and their environment. We seriousely need to realize that all the pollution that we are creating on the ground, ends up in the ocean. Remember that a small polluted stream will end up its journey at the ocean feet.
We live on a planet mostly covered by water and we need to clean up our mess soon before it's to late!
If the whales disappears one day because of our pollution, so will we!
I hope that my paintings will inspire the people to help to protect our oceans... and theirs.


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