Gerald Hunt. Sculptor. Wood carver. Pabos Mills, Quebec. Active mid to late 20th century.

Born in Pabos-Mills, Quebec. Near the mouth of La Baie-des-Chaleures in Quebec;  Gerald Hunt, using ‘as found’ materials (especially found in the forest)  carved and painted the Birds, Animals and people that he saw around him. Gerald Hunt liked to work with the natural shapes that he saw in ‘as found’ branches and tree trunks. His nephew is the artist Honore Hunt; also from Pabos Mills. (See entry for him.)

Ref: Un Art Pas Si Bete. Cecile Gelinas, Musee de la Gaspesie, Quebec, 1993.

Rock Laflamme. Sculptor. Wood carver. Pointe-Jaune, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.

Rock Laflamme  was a boat and ship builder. As a Folk Artist he was best known for the detailed models he made of the boats that he built. He also made animal and bird carvings.

Ref: Un Art Pas Si Bete. Cecile Gelinas, Musee de la Gaspesie, Quebec,1993.

Isaie Laflamme. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Pointe-Jaune, Gaspe, Quebec. Active mid-20th century.

Isaie Laflamme was a fisherman all his life. He also carved ship models and horse-drawn sleighs and wagons. He made models of the fishing boats that worked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, they were equipped with cod lines and sails; all the equipment found on the boats. His boats were carved in cedar and painted in bright ‘as found’ colours. The vehicles in his horse drawn carvings were also painted but the horses were not. He was first published in ‘Un Art pas si Bete’.

Ref: Cecile Gelinas, Un Art Pas Si Bete. Musee de la Gaspesie. 1993.

Noel Huet. Sculptor.  Wood carver.  Cloridorme, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.

Born at Cloridorme, Quebec in 1919, Noel Huet was a carver of model ships and dories. M. Huet was known for the details included in his carvings. His models would include all the gear that would be seen in a fishing boat; traps, oars, buckets and hand lines with hooks and bait and with sails and rigging. His models were not all miniature in size; many ranged up to 24 and 30 inches long and they were  made using the same construction techniques that were used in the building of full sized boats. They were always painted. In an interview Noel Huet once said: “Les bateaux et la mer, c’est notre vie”. (‘The boats and the sea, that’s our life’.)*

Ref: Un Art Pas Si Bete. Cecile Gelinas, Musee de la Gaspesie, Quebec,1993.

Jean Huard. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Pabos-Mills, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.

Born at Pabos-Mills, in Quebec’ Gaspe Peninsula,  Jean Huard was a maker of model ships. He always had  a great display along the highway on the Baie-des-Chaleurs at Pabos Mills. He typically made models of the fishing and cargo boats that sailed and worked up and down the St.-Lawrence and Gaspe shores. These model boats are found painted and unpainted; but rarely signed.*

Ref: Un Art Pas Si Bete. Cecile Gelinas, Musee de la Gaspesie, Quebec,1993.

*As many as three generations of the Huard family were known to have made these model boats – from table top sizes to one three and four feet long; complete with fishing and sailing  gear.