Jeanne d’Arc Audet. Painter. Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec. Active from her childhood till now.

Jeanne d’Arc Audet was a naive painter. Her subjects were : “The ‘art of memory, or remembering.” They were found in the traditions of every-day Quebec life and customs. Using whatever materials available, from wax crayons to newspaper she painted the world around her. (She tells of trading fresh eggs for crayons with the local grocer.)

 

Ref: A link to a short film in French with Jeanne d’Arc Audet by la Société  québécoise d’ethnologie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO2tY-xb70Y

Victor Dallaire. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Saguenay, Quebec. Active 1960’s – .

Cictor Dallaire is a flat-plane woodcarver.  He apprenticed at Jean-Julien Bourgault’s School in 1959 at the age of sixteen where he learned the art that he would excel in.

 

 

Ref: A link to a biography and a short film in French with Victor Dallaire by la Société québécoise d’ethnologie:

http://ethnologiequebec.org/2018/01/victor-dallaire-sculpteur/

 

Nicole Deschenes Duval. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. Active 1960’s – .

Nicole Deschenes Duval is a flat-plane woodcarver. She apprenticed at the School of Jean-Julien Bourgault in the 1960 where she developed her amazing talent and the ability to carve children. She reproduces her wood carvings in bronze and stone-dust.

 

Ref: A short film in French with Marcel Guay by la Société québécoise d’ethnologie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8kHd6RwIo4

There is a fine description of her time studying at Jean-Julien Bourgault’s school in St-Jean-Port-Joli and arare interesting glimpse of her days there..

Gaetan Hovington. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Tadoussac, Quebec. Active 1960’s – .

Gaetan Hovington is a flat-plane woodcarver. Trained at the  Bourgault school  in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, he carves Quebec people in traditional dress at their occupations and in later years the more dramatic sea and land animals.. His carvings are always in the round and usually larger sized. His carvings are full of character, always signed and only very rarely in colour.

A carving in Pine of a Gentleman. By Gaetan Hovington. 1970’s:

The Mark:

 

A much later work. Beluga by Gaetan Hovington. 2007. In paint:

The Mark:

 

 

Ref: A short film in French with Gaetan Hovington by la Société québécoise d’ethnologie.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSo-GtHcj3c

 

From their excellent series of films:  ‘Les artistes en art populaire de Charlevoix’:

http://ethnologiequebec.org/categorie/videos/

Chas. Le Grand. Sculptor. Woodcarver. St-Jean-Port-Joli (?), Quebec. Active 1930’s.

Shas. Le Grand made painted flat-plane carvings of Quebec people in traditional dress. His work can be considered extremely rare. (I have only ever seen one example.)*

Shown below is a signed example of a Quebec couple dated 1938 and marked ‘Hand Carved by Chas. Le Grand Quebec’.

A carved Quebec Couple by Chas. Le Grand:

The mark of Chas. Le Grand, Quebec:

 

*.Chas. Le Grand was one of several Quebec flat-plane woodcarvers whose carving careers seemed to have stopped sometime in the 1940’s, if not at the end of the 1930’s. (The second world war may have been a factor for some.)