Eloise Dumas (b. 1993, in Beauce-Sartigan, Quebec) lives and works at Place des Arts in Montreal. She graduated with distinction from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and drawing. She is a naturalistic oil painter committed to realism with scenes that are psychologically charged with stillness. Dumas’ paintings and drawings are a visual guide of rawness from the rural life.
Throughout her paintings, Dumas explores the naive daily life instants taken under her camera, often in agricultural areas. Her pictures recall the experience of sacred moments left as souvenirs. A collection of still life, portraits, figures, and objects from the land. Photography is the spine of her art process. Hence, the cornerstone of her inspiration. The artist creates a recurrence perhaps a fixation in her colors. It is earth and soil nourishing her raw, bucolic color palette. It is aesthetically acknowledged to remain without artifice in her scenarios.
In the portrayal of her subjects, the artist attempts to minimize the composition in terms to draw more attention to empty spaces. It is a palpable sensation that everything else about her work appears to be pure memories. The presence of death often reinforces the notion of ephemeral world of fragility. In summary, Dumas’ pieces of art refer to the gesture of reading a poem in silence. Eloise Dumas has exhibited in Canadian galleries in Quebec areas, Montreal, Victoria, and Vancouver since 2012. She is known in the Montreal and Quebec community, having won several art awards since 2013.
