Monique Daneau’s acrylic and mixed media on canvas paintings have a jagged, abstracted quality which combines tantalizingly with her opulent treatment of color. Working in quick, intuitive strokes, Daneau is able to invest the paint with a unique vitality. Drastic change in hue or texture gives the feeling of movement and immediacy, making each piece an emotional journey alternating between somber and vibrant colors with the ambiance of sculptural impressionism. Daneau’s creative affluence pours over and initiates the viewer into the artist’s exalted states. Blending, scraping and layering techniques appear, exploring a seemingly infinite palette. Forms jag or glide across the composition in a poignant, lawless dance with figure and ground. Large in scale and colossal in impression, these ecstatic renditions of abstract exploration are situated in the border territory between chaos and order, minimalist and extremist, the base and the holy.
Based in St-Bruno-de-Montarville, Monique Daneau has exhibited her work throughout Canada and abroad and continues to have international success.