{"id":2139,"date":"2023-07-28T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T14:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ymorier.com\/the-painters-path\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T06:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T06:03:58","slug":"the-painters-path","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ymorier.com\/en\/the-painters-path\/","title":{"rendered":"The Painter\u2019s Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; oblique_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1690553816169{margin-top: -15px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ymorier.com\/en\/biography\/\"><button class=\"btn\">Biography<\/button><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ymorier.com\/en\/the-painters-path\/\"><button class=\"btn choix\">The Painter\u2019s Path<\/button><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243; el_class=&#8221;text&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>The Painter\u2019s Path<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Yves Morier was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada in October 1945.<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Arts at the classical college of Seminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, where he was sensitized by various forms of arts, he completes in 1969, his law studies at University Laval in Quebec City, where he is attracted by the richness of the Old Quebec architectural patrimony.<\/li>\n<li>Nature\u2019s lover, he is introduced to the art of floral decorations at his father\u2019s florist store, where he works during his summer vacations.<\/li>\n<li>During the 70\u2019s, as young lawyer, he is fascinated by the painter Leo Ayotte\u2019s impressive artwork, who builds with large paint strokes full of colors, magnificent flowers, \u201cnatures mortes\u201d, and ancestral houses, this bohemian painter which unfortunately died in Saint-Hyacinthe in 1976.<\/li>\n<li>On September 30th, 1977, following a vernissage of Louis Tremblay\u2019s work, a painter from Baie St-Paul, held at the Martin art gallery, Saint-Hyacinthe, he decides he is going to start painting.<\/li>\n<li>The analysis of Quebec artist works, such as Marc-Aurele Fortin, Leo Ayotte, Rene Richard and Louis Tremblay drove him to paint impressionist style large strokes.<\/li>\n<li>In order to learn the painting art, he participates to the 1980-81 Fall-Winter painting session at the adult education of Yamaska regional school board, directed by Mrs Suzanne Caron.<\/li>\n<li>In September 1981, he registers to the drawing\/sketching course given by the Saint-Hyacinthe painter Nelson Dupre.<\/li>\n<li>During his first year of picture art research, he produces fifteen oil paints on masonite panels, where daisies, chrysanthemums, roses and peonies inspire him.<\/li>\n<li>Attracted by the perfection details of painter Yvette Lapierre\u2019s canvasses, already representing numerous St-Hyacinthe historical sites, from which the canvas titled \u201cold court house\u201d, which he bought. In 1982 and 1983, at this cottage in St-Ours-sur-Richelieu, he produced a series of paintings under the theme of \u201cthe Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu patrimonial tour of ancestral houses\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Judge at the Quebec Court, criminal, penal and civil chamber since 1993, he spends a large part of his leisure time to search the serenity in juxtaposing forms and colors into the development of his art since 1995.<\/li>\n<li>Since September 8th, 1996, he participates in Monteregie regional \u201cpainters tour\u201d directed by the Saint-Thomas d\u2019Aquin painter Yves Bernard.<\/li>\n<li>His travel pictures and garden sketches in regions as inspiring as Old Quebec, Charlevoix, Lower Saint-Lawrence, Prince-Edward Island, Nova-Scotia, as well as his tours in Monteregie, east coast of the United States, his trips to Tunisia and Italy inspire him as a poet\u2019s \u201cMuse\u201d .<\/li>\n<li>His large strokes of forms and vivid colors where the impressionism wins over the realism and brings diversity and a patch of sound gives his artworks a very personal style.<\/li>\n<li>To be a judge means lots of listening and even if painting consists more in looking and be filled with moving beauties, it is in listening that one can transpose his view on a panel or a canvas, he says.<\/li>\n<li>This is the way to acquire serenity\u2026<\/li>\n<li>When retiring as a judge of the Quebec court, he will project his art personal development on his oil and acrylic paintings with the richness and the moving color bursting of his unusual realistic canvasses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Yves Morier&#8217;s painting expositions and demonstrations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>April 1981 \u2014\u00a0Sacre-Coeur leisure pavilion, Saint-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<li>April 1981, March 1982 &amp; 1983\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Court-house Atrium, Saint-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<li>August 1981 &amp; 1982\u00a0\u2014\u00a0St-Denis-sur-Richelieu Old Market Fair;<\/li>\n<li>February 1982 &amp; 1983\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Valentine\u2019s Day brunch Sacre-Coeur school, St-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<li>September 1996\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Daniel-Seguin gardens, Saint-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<li>July 1997\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Dessaulles park, Saint-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<li>September 1997\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Organic Apple Orchard, Mont-Saint-Hilaire;<\/li>\n<li>August 1997 to 2005\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Painters\u2019 Color Path, St-Pie-de-Bagot;<\/li>\n<li>October 1998\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Plein Art Maskoutain, Les Salines park, Saint-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<li>August 1999\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\u201cOld St-Pie\u201d gallery, St-Pie-de-Bagot;<\/li>\n<li>September 1999\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Plein Art Maskoutain, Daniel-Seguin gardens, St-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<li>March 7 to 31, 2000\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\u201cSerenity\u201d solo exposition, T.-A. St-Germain library;<\/li>\n<li>March 13 to April 5, 2001\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Collective \u201c10 brushes for a promise\u201d T.-A. St-Germain library for the Claudette-Bernier Foundation;<\/li>\n<li>October 17, 2004\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Donation of the \u201cChrysanthemum\u201d canvas: 01-01-81-002\u00a0 (oil on 12X16 panel) to Eastern Township\/Monteregie\u00a0Canadian Cancer Society, at their annual evening dance;<\/li>\n<li>October 6, 2005\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Donation of the \u201cCape May\u201d canvas: 25-09-05-003 (oil on 16X20 canvas) to the Richelieu-Yamaska Canadian Cancer Society;<\/li>\n<li>March 26, 2006\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Vernissage at the \u201cSpringtime Room\u201d of the Chasse Art Gallery, Saint-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<li>September 28 to 30, 2006\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Duet exposition at the Lawyers and Province Lawyers Congress \u201cEntrez dans la danse\u201d Hotel des Seigneurs, St-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<li>March 31 to April 21, 2008\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Duet exposition \u201cRichness and Impulsions\u201d, Doris Chasse and Yves Morier, T.-A. St-Germain library, St-Hyacinthe;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Updated in March 2010[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; oblique_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1690553816169{margin-top: -15px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]Biography The Painter\u2019s Path[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243; el_class=&#8221;text&#8221;][vc_column_text] The Painter\u2019s Path Yves Morier was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada in October 1945. 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