Anna-Marie Voisine. Sculptor. Wood carver. Saint-Pascal, Kamoursaka County, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.
First mentioned in “Les Patenteux du Quebec”; Mme. Voisine filled her yard and home with flowers and with painted cut-out carvings of people, animals, bird houses and birds. Roosting birds and birds on the wing. She worked with as found materials and colours and took her inspiration from the world around her. In an interview she said: “mon imagination trotte la nuit”. (My imagination ‘ runs’ at night.) Anne-Marie Voisine did not sign her work.
She also carved delicate birds in the round with applied wings. (The wings were cut from thin sheets of fibre-glass.) They were painted with bright colours and polka-dots. (One is shown below.)
Yellow Bird by Anne-Marie Voisine. 1970’s:
Anne-Marie Voisine. Saint-Pascal, Kamouraska, Quebec. Yellow Bird. 1970’s.
Ref: Les Patenteux du Qubec. Louise de Grosbois, Raymonde Lamothe and Lise Nantel, Les Editions Parti Pris, Montreal, 1978.
