Jean-Guy Desrosiers  I would like to create something serious, fresh and endowed with a soul. A horse drawn carriage slowly wanders under the hot summer sun, what a charming little water colour, swiftly painted and served by an inventive combination of touch and colour, I have owned this exquisite painting for more than thirty years. For Jean-Guy Desrosiers, everything is a subject to paint. He paints during the day, the evening and sometimes at night. Landscapes, still life, people and occasionally abstracts. One must see him at the scene; in the heart of old Quebec, at the seaside or on the fringes of Charlevoix, sketch after sketch, they complement his studio work. As with all artists, it is there he finds solitude, the essential peace that allows him to further his art to its completion. Images sketched here and there are reorganised on his canvas in infinite variants. Arising from fantasy; snowbound villages, sunny alleys and frozen ponds, where happy-go-lucky skaters dance, small harbours where fishing is not important, still life, violins, guitars and other objects that have no other purpose but to embellish the boundaries of his canvas. His paintings perfectly describe his character. They are whimsical, cheerful, teasing at times, endearing and free of many a painter’s fear of a white canvas. Jean-Guy Desrosiers has always said that being a painter is the greatest profession in the world. He uses his heart, his emotion, his ardour and his proven technique; as if he were twenty years old again, he starts over day after day, reshaping his painting, reinventing the world in his familiar colours which we recognize as being those of Desrosiers. From a very early age, I was fascinated by colour and design.Born in to a large family of modest means in Sorel, where art had no place in our daily lives, I refused to abandon my dream over the years.I was 21 before I was able to begin formal art training at the Ecole Technique in Ottawa.My work as a professional photographer for the Canadian aviation industry, eventually took me to Quebec City, where I audited courses at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.Working as a scientific illustrator at the Valcartier Reseach Center, I also painted intensly.My passion soon led to a new career.I employ a variety of media to render such diverse subjects as the Quebec countryside, the mountains of Charlevoix, typical fishing villages and figures. I have a number of abstract works hidden away - works of fantasy and surrealism.More and more, my canvasses have come to occupy a grey zone between figurative and abstract art.Some of these paintings might surprise you, with their treatment of light, their fanciful embellishments, their unexpected layers, or their suggestive poses. I am particularly fascinated by antique objects and musical instruments.Such objects have a soul, a history, a life that elicits an intense emotional response from me.You might notice a violin in some of my still-life compositions.This violin has belonged to me since the age of 17 and I played it in my youth.Though silent now, its strings vibrate still in my memory, at times crying out in pain, at other times singing for joy, always firing my imagination and inspiring my creativity. I enjoy studying the work and development of such masters as Goya, Van Gogh, Cezanne or Delacroix.Museum visits and cultural excursions also stimulate my own artistic development.The more I dare to be myself, the more I dare to reveal myself and create paintings that are true to my inner spirit, then the more creative and original my work becomes.  $1 Shipping anywhere in Canada with internet purchase of original artwork Buy for yourself or a friend and we insure, package and deliver for $1