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DORIS BORDAGE

Artist established in Montréal, Québec


Artistic approach

The way I see it now, i think that my artistic approach is my own quest of identity. It all started when I lived as a child in Magpie, a northern village by the sea, in Québec. For me, as a young girl, it was a small, isolated and stressing place to be. With time, I believe that this is where I learned to seek comfort in my thoughts whishing that one day I could fulfill my dreams and become an authentic person. Today I paint to take conscience of my being and to perceive my own existence in relation with the world around me.

When I go out, I look around seeking objects, litter, publicities, and reactions of people, anything that could be a source of inspiration. What motivates me the most about painting are the textures, the unique vibrations of different colors and the fluidity of the gesture that builds the composition. I can spend hours looking at color samples, fitting them together in order to find the best blend.

A passion? An esthetical preoccupation? A gestuality? Are there answers to these questions? There are days when I feel I have no inspiration at all. But by maintaining an openness of mind to what is happening during that period of time, by letting myself slip into this uncomfortable state of doubt and tension, a new path opens before me and I feel myself reviving. This state of availability creates a space inside where all becomes possible. It is a place where I feel comfortable, a place where I can escape to express myself freely.

It goes without saying that my passion brought me to intervene in other form of arts, but painting has always retained all my attention. As to photography, it is nearer to my aspirations in dealing with composition and lighting. In my self-portraits, I played with the saturation of black and white. My models where photographies taken in picture boots, then saturated again and again by successive manipulations on a photocopier. It revealed an uncommon interiority, an emotion hidden within me.

Piet Mondrian, Claude Tousignant and Guido Molinari really inspired me by their ability in mastering composition, geometry and light. Jackson Pollock taught me to paint freely, letting the flow of memories and prints of my life to accumulate on the canvas giving to each painting its own and unique character and personality. Finding the balance between emotions and a deep urge to paint, daring to let rise, from within me, emotions and experiences nerver revealed otherwise, all this is what nourishes my passion to be cherished until the end, for it is the only one to ease me.

Doris Bordage
02/08/06