Born in Jolliette in 1948, Geoffroy was Largely self-taught. He trained in wood carving in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli Quebec in 1975.

Geoffroy taught at the École de Sculpture de Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, at the Collège Communautaire from
Bathurst, New Brunswick and is currently a sculpture pofesseur at the Maison des Métiers d’Art de
Québec (MMAQ) option Sculpture (Cegep de Limoilou)

In his words:
Geoffroy expresses himself as much by the bas-relief as by the round hump; by modeling and assembly
than by cutting direct. He is as comfortable with wood as he is with clay or synthetic resins. It
passes from one to the other according to the need.

C. A Gagnon maker of flat-plane carvings usually in paint; and signed.

C. A. Gagnon.

Jean-Baptiste Larochelle. Sculptor. Woodcarver. St-Jean Chrisostôme. Active mid – 20th century.

Jean-Baptiste Larochelle made primitive carvings. They were full of imagination and fancy – always in paint. He did not always sign his work. A painted wagon (seen on Face Book) is shown here.

Jean-Baptiste Larochelle. A painted Wagon:

With a detail:

Mme Olivier Belanger. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. Active 1950 – .

Mme Olivier Belanger’s Mark is found on  painted flat-plane figural Quebec carvings. They are signed with a stamp and the colour palette is bright and unlike the typical S.J.P.J. carvings – the colours are almost pastel and may be simply faded. More information is needed for this mark. Female carvers in SJPJ are rare. (See Mme Iriene Belanger.)

A pair of carved and painted figures signed (with a stamp): Mme Olivier Belanger with the Mark:

Mme Olivier Belanger. Flat-Plane carvings. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Qc.

The Marks on the carvings:

Mme Olivier Belanger. Flat-Plane carvings. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Qc.

Clement Pelletier. Sculptor. Flat-plane carver. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. Active mid to late 20th c.

Before 1940, boys born in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli went into the church or the bush or went to sea. But after 1950 there was another option; learning flat-plane carving from the Bourgault family. In 1965 Clement Pelletier began learning woodcarving under Jean-Julien Bourgault. Like his brother he focused on carving Quebec figures and relief carvings of Quebec traditional scenes. An example of his carving is shown.

A relief carving of a fiddler (forgive the quality – a temporary one):

Clement Pelletier. SJPJ, Qc.