KIROUAC, Louise (Lecor)
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About the artist
PAINTING QUEBEC’S MEMORY
Born into a family of artists in Saint-Michel-de-Wentworth in 1939, she is the sister of the renowned Paul-Tex Lecor, who introduced her to painting. She grew up and lived in Brownburg, remaining deeply attached to her rural roots.
A figurative painter, her work is distinguished by a constant search for light and serenity. Her compositions, often executed in oils, use halftones and transparencies to create an almost meditative atmosphere.
A true “visual archivist,” she travelled throughout Quebec (Charlevoix, the Laurentians, the Gaspé Peninsula) to paint landscapes, churches, and ancestral homes. Her goal was to preserve Quebec’s heritage on canvas before it was erased by modernity.
She worked from sketches made on location, but finished her works in her studio once she was “saturated with emotion.” For her, each painting had to capture the soul of a specific village or place, which she took great care to identify with precision.
Her works, imbued with gentleness and a “chromatic sweetness,” are found in numerous private collections and galleries across Canada, notably at Balcon d’art.
She is often described as a perfectionist who sought, through her landscapes, to achieve an “elusive mysticism” and a poetic silence characteristic of Quebec nature.
She passed away on October 27, 2018, after a long illness.
