The making of a painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbKZGQkJXfw
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The Artist Born in Montreal, Canada, Francesca Trop is an artist whose work captures the beauty of ordinary every-days scenes. Francesca's fascination with art began as a small child and never left. After pursuing a career as a lawyer that took her from Montreal to Ottawa and Paris, she chose to settle in Montreal to devote herself exclusively to painting. The Work "It's the vision of a moment of absolute beauty that sets off my artistic inspiration, I've always been this way for as long as I can remember: something trivial catches my attention and without warning, a very strong feeling of wonder seizes all my being. A mini love-at-first-sight. And I have the immediate need to paint the scene that triggered this emotion, in order to make it mine, to make it last, to celebrate it, and to share it. My professional experience as a lawyer has made me particularly interested in relations, in mini daily dramas, in the energy that connects people to each other or to their environment. In my paintings I seek to emphasize the beauty hidden there." Francesca's work is included in several private collections and has been shown on the walls of various galleries and cafés, introducing her work to a wider audience. She is a member of the Regroupement des Arts Visuels du Québec and the Women's Art Society of Montreal. "I first met Francesca when she joined my class for teenagers at the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts. I have been privileged to watch her grow into the incredible artist that she has become. Francesca has developed a wide range of work in many media . She has always been a compelling storyteller who is able to impart strong feelings through her unique way of painting. She has worked very hard to develop her ideas through her many series and to impart to the viewer the story . She sees right into the souls of her subjects. Whether she’s in the courthouse of her lawyers or the skates of her hockey players or the spirits of her creatures, she invites us into their space to feel what she feels and be part of the story."
Marilyn Rubenstein Montreal Artist and Teacher February 2018 |
« Nous passons la moitié de notre vie à escalader une échelle, et l’autre à réaliser que nous l’avions adossée au mauvais mur » - K. Jung “Freedom is really the impossibility to follow the road travelled by most; To be free is simply to follow the path that agrees with your qualities.” - H. Matisse |
"[Translation] “Francesca Trop defends multiple causes in her signature works — be they prints, monotypes, collages or paintings.. […] A human and social cause in her impressive figures of lawyers and magistrates conferring in the quasi-religious spaces of the courtroom and legal antechambers, the cause of nature and pure joy in her seascapes stretching into endless vistas or her wild horses depicted in energetic colour, as in so many other subjects.
Her "scenes from the bar” express so many tensions, so much intriguing or repellent energy — in the almost magnetic meaning of the word — between the protagonists in a case. What case? The deliberately replicated spaces are made dynamic by a free and inventive perspective that evokes the agonizing interiors of Piranesi.
Colour, the sense of unity in light, the contained gesture, here free, there restrained, the surprise and acceptance of the accidental, the rare sense of pictorial structure and taste for composition — so many parameters that circumscribe an authentic artist, but do not play here solely for themselves, but at the service of an expressive cause, the cause of relationships, rapprochements, distancings, that Francesca loves to sum up in the term of solitude.
Let us accept that term, but let me be the witness: when we look at her paintings, we feel that we are not alone.”
Daniel Lacomme
Professor, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Author of the L’Atelier Vivant Collection, published by Bordas
January 10, 2018
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"[Translation] “Francesca Trop defends multiple causes in her signature works — be they prints, monotypes, collages or paintings.. […] A human and social cause in her impressive figures of lawyers and magistrates conferring in the quasi-religious spaces of the courtroom and legal antechambers, the cause of nature and pure joy in her seascapes stretching into endless vistas or her wild horses depicted in energetic colour, as in so many other subjects.
Her "scenes from the bar” express so many tensions, so much intriguing or repellent energy — in the almost magnetic meaning of the word — between the protagonists in a case. What case? The deliberately replicated spaces are made dynamic by a free and inventive perspective that evokes the agonizing interiors of Piranesi.
Colour, the sense of unity in light, the contained gesture, here free, there restrained, the surprise and acceptance of the accidental, the rare sense of pictorial structure and taste for composition — so many parameters that circumscribe an authentic artist, but do not play here solely for themselves, but at the service of an expressive cause, the cause of relationships, rapprochements, distancings, that Francesca loves to sum up in the term of solitude.
Let us accept that term, but let me be the witness: when we look at her paintings, we feel that we are not alone.”
Daniel Lacomme
Professor, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Author of the L’Atelier Vivant Collection, published by Bordas
January 10, 2018
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