France Jodoin “Inner Landscapes”

“The works presented in the Inner Landscapes exhibition invite us on an inward journey, where the subjects on the canvas become mirrors of our secret geographies. They trace the contours of a territory both familiar and mysterious: that of our inner world. Before these works, time suspends its course. The urgency of daily life fades away, giving place to a silent encounter between the gaze and the pictorial matter. The subjects painted do not tell a story, they offer a space for contemplation where each person can draw from their own resonances, their own memories, their own emotions. The objective is to create this unique and personal dialogue between the artwork and those who take the time to pause before it, to breathe with it, and to let their own reading of the world emerge.”

The worlds that France Jodoin brings to life in her paintings capture the fleeting spaces between what we know and what we imagine. We recognize the worlds she creates, and yet unlike our world time and borders between land, sea and sky gently but powerfully dissolve away, architecture reveals and guards secrets, and people move gracefully, knowingly. Each painting holds a subtle but powerful spark of magic, igniting in the beholder a desire to ask what is happening and why, what came before and what comes next.

France Jodoin lives and works in Cowansville in the Eastern Townships, in the province of Quebec (Canada). She has been exhibiting her paintings for more than 20 years in museums and galleries in Canada, in the United States and in Europe.

Join us for the Opening Reception on Friday, March 6th, from 5-8pm!