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Resume

Resume

EDUCATION

Watercolor workshop - Paul Jackson, Toronto, ONT. Canada

2019

2019

2019

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2001

2000

2000

2000

2000

1996

1985

Watercolor workshop - Michael Solovyev, O'Aqua-R-Elles Granby, QC. Canada

Dye with natural pigments, Centre des Textiles Contemporains, Montréal, QC. Canada

Watercolor workshop - Jane Freeman (TWSA), Minnesota, United States.

Watercolor workshop - Birgit O'Connor,  California, United States.

Watercolor workshop - Birgit O'Connor,  California, United States.

Commercial and Residential Interior design (AEC), Montreal, QC. Canada

Drawing and rendering with Ramez Awad, Montreal, QC. Canada.

Observational drawing - Renée Charron, Montreal, QC. Canada

Drawing formation - Ramwez Awad, Montreal, QC. Canada

Visual languages and its application - Renée Charron, Montreal, QC. Canada

Color theory and its principles - Renée Charron, Montreal, QC. Canada

How to develop creativity and use it in visual art - Marie Valée, Montreal, QC. Canada

B. Art certificate - UQAM Montreal, QC. Canada

Interior decoration degree - ICS Winnipeg, MB, Canada

WORKSHOPS

With renowned watercolor artists: (Mary Whyte USA, Shirley Trevena USA, Carla O'Connor USA, Ann Pember USA, Donna Zagotta USA, Nicholas Simons USA).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

SCA                              -    Canadian Watercolour Society - Signatory member 2023

                                              Board member

TWSA                           -    Transparent Watercolor Society of America                                 IWS                               -     International Watercolor Society of Canada

                                              (Official Quebec Representative 2020-2023)

CPWC                         -    Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor

RAAV                           -     Regroupement des Artistes en Arts Visuels

BOREAT                     -    France Arbour Art Centre, Granby (QC)

 

 

 EXHIBITIONS

2024

Société Canadienne de l'Aquarelle 

2021

2020

2019

2006

2005

2005

2005

2003

2003

2002

O'Aqua-R-Elles, Granby, QC. Canada

O'Aqua-R-Elles, Granby, QC. Canada 

O'Aqua-R-Elles, Granby, QC. Canada 

Boréart Art Centre, Granby, QC. Canada

Automne Art, Montreal, QC. Canada

InVivo Gallery, Montreal, QC. Canada

Boreart Art Centre, Granby, QC. Canada

Boreart Art Centre, Granby, QC. Canada

Espace Art Gallery, Montreal, QC. Canada

SIDIM Montreal, Montreal, QC. Canada

AWARDS

2020

2002

2001

2001

PRIVATE COLLECTION

CORPORATE COLLECTION

PUBLICATIONS

Hope 2020, online  juried contest - Bangladesh, India 

Public first choice award - Artistes Peintres du Québec, Trois-Rivières, QC. Canada

Honours and grant - Interior design, Montreal, QC. Canada

Scholarship in Interior design, Interdec, Montreal, QC. Canada

Quebec, Québec, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Granby, Quebec, Canada
Verrière le Buisson, France
Bromont, Quebec, Canada
Iowa, USA
New York, USA
Nouveau Brunswick, Canada
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
St-Augustin, Quebec, Canada
Mirabel, Quebec, Canada - (3)
Lasalle, Quebec, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Magog, Quebec, Canada - (3)

Barrington, Nova Scotia, Canada

Montreal Children Hospital, Montreal, QC. Canada

IWS Canada Newsletter #12 page 1:  https://iwscanada.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/newsletter-12-english.pdf

 

IWS Canada Newsletter Winter edition - Cover page and page 10

https://iwscanada.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/canadianwatercolourmagazine-iwscanada_winter2021-english-1.pdf

Hope 2020 printed publication    (image)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2005 - 2024

Groupe and private - in person and online - watercolor 

CONTESTS - MAGASINES - EXPOSITIONS

Christiane Fortin

Painting the beauty of life one stroke at the time in watercolor

30 years of

Christiane Fortin, artist
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