Denis Gingras

A red dot on the sheet indicates that the art wok has already been sold or is unavailable for sale. Sorry! Otherwise, you simply need to contact me (go to the web pages “To buy a work of art”, “To reach me” and “To leave me a message”) if a particular work of art is of interest to you. To consult a data sheet, simply click on it. It can be enlarged further by cliking on the small square icon at the bottom of the file.

The 26 little watercolors below have been realized spontaneously in Gaspésie during the summer

2013. To produce them, I simply let my mind wander in unknown creative territories, mixing

figurative and abstract arts (would that be what has been recently called “contemporary figurative

art” ?). I painted them anywhere, anytime without thinking on a series of small cardboards usually

used in medical clinics for blood tests. Those boards are very absorbing providing a very mat and

soft effect, atypical of traditional watercolor paper. Pigments are heavily diffused, which soften

contrasts and allows little space for the superposition of multiple transparent layers. the effect

reminds me a little of chinese and japanese watercolor on rice paper. The cardboards are roughly

3.5” x 5” (8.75 cm x 12.5 cm) in dimensions. Some of them refer to recent images imprinted in my

short term memory as I was spending time in gaspesie. Others may refer to images or memories

deeply buried in my subconciousness. Everyone can see in those what he wants.

Lac St-Pierre

Français

Artist - Painter Poet Professor Explorer Engineer Musician Writer Father

Here are some watercolors that I’ve made in the late 90s.

Here are some watercolors that I’ve made in the early 2000s.

Hello,

and welcome on this page illustrating some of my art works in watercolor. Some watercolors are shown with a data sheet. One finds on each data sheet the informations pertaining to the illustrated art work (title, technique, size, date and location where the painting has been made) as well as a short text (in French) describing the story behind the creation of the art work.