France Tremblay celebrates the beauty of nature in her art. She is passionnate about light; she develops compositions that exploit it in dramatic ways. She paints the dance of light on surfaces and how it plays with textures. She is a keen observer of the patterns light makes when it travels through glass and when it reflects on water and shiny objects. France's favorite subjects include landscapes, seascapes, wildlife and still lifes. She creates complex designs with the exciting patterns she finds in nature, such as rock formations, vegetation, fur and plumage and artifacts. She finds hidden gems and she presents the uncommon essence of common scenes. France works primarily in acrylic. She also expresses herself with graphite, carbon or coloured pencils.
France finds her inspiration as she travels around the world and her expeditions have a profound impact on her art. Some recent additions to her work depict sunrise and sunset over the Arizona and the California deserts, luxuriant Costa Rica gardens, Galapagos wildlife and scenes from Bermuda. At home, the wading birds of the Ottawa valley and their habitat are a great source of inspiration. As well, France never ceases to rediscover the neighbourhoods with new eyes. France lives in a universe of infinite possibilities, from the giant rocks sculpted over millions of years by the wind, the water and the sun to the small objects and artificial lights she sometimes set in her studio to create still life compositions.
France always pushes the envelope of her technical abilities. She constantly seeks to increase her skills and knowledge. Each composition that she creates is the outcome of a careful analysis; nothing is left to chance. In many ways, she approaches art with the traits of a scientist, which she also is. France did a bachelor degree in physics at Université Laval in Quebec city, a master degree in physics at the University of Toronto, and a Ph. D. degree in physics at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, United Kingdom. She has studied quantum mechanics in semiconductor structures in collaboration with several reknown scientists, including two Nobel prizes. It is while she was in Europe studying to become a scientist that France developed her passion for art. France came back to Canada with her Ph.D degree in science in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. She then worked as a full-time scientist for twelve years, becoming an international expert in radars and later managing teams of 50 scientists and engineers. During that period France studied art part-time. She became a full-time artist in 2002 and has since then presented her artwork in several galeries and exhibitions in Canada and the United States. She has founded an art school in the Kanata area. She keeps in touch with the scientific community and teaches Electrical Engineering part-time at the University of Ottawa.
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