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ANNIE LALANDE

Annie Lalande was born in 1975, in Ontario, Canada, in francophone countryside.
 
 After her preliminary studies in Visual Arts in Montreal, She continued her artistic education in Québec City and earned a BA in Visual Arts at Université Laval (2001). Having lived in a French and English environment most her childhood, this move to Quebec City inspired her to rediscover her French language and her culture.  Throughout her studies and since then, art is in her life an on-going adventure. It opened her up to many different artistic happenings.  She participated in numerous painting and photography exhibitions and artistic residents in Canada and abroad.  She expanded her artistic expression in the interdisciplinary form of Performance Art collaborating with other artists. Also, her openness and desire to enrich her artistic vision brought her to have an artistic residence in Israel (1997) and study in France (2000).  Her last artistic adventure brought her to teach Visual Arts to adolescents on an Amerindian reserve north of Quebec (2002-2004).
 
 All these experiences have given Annie the ability to connect with a variety of people from all walks of life and different nationalities. It also provided her with a more precise sense of direction and purpose for her art to flow.

 Now, motherhood has brought her to explore her own roots, those of mixed race: French-Canadian and Trinidadian. Since then, she has chosen to channel her expression through painting, which is inspired from her Afro-Caribbean ancestry, her African partner and the connexion, synergy and culture that she feels pulsating through her very being.

 Her most recent gallery exhibition in March 2008 reflects on her "Roots" interest.  This happening featured ten of her paintings at Cube gallery in Ottawa, Canada, reuniting African descendant artists living in Canada. This is definitely the most interesting kind of gathering that appeals to Annie.

 She presently resides in Quebec City, Canada where she paints and cares for her family.   Recently, she received a research grant from the Quebec Arts Council.  With this help, she is working on new paintings which explore this deep search for one’s identity.

Artist's statement:   About the creation process…

Entering the zone of creativity provides me of a never-ending series of emotions
escalating from joy to the rush and ecstasy. It is a moment where I feel that I am in harmony with my simple Self, where neither time nor space exists. In these creative moments, I often find myself in a space where I can see clearly. And this clarity always brings me ideas of grandeur and bliss. It is almost a form of spiritual awakening, where simply ‘being’ suffices. With this in mind, I see art and particularly painting as an opportunity to embrace this time and allow the manifestation of these moments to take form and breath and hopefully meet someone. To help me swift into this mood, I love to collect plants, objects, images and textures, which bring inspiration for forms.  These forms integrate a composition where landscapes, humans and/or plant cohabit and create an imaginary world.