ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head> <!-- CHANGE THE NEXT THREE LINES --> <title>The Boathouse Gallery</title> <meta name="Description" content="Place your website description in this area. This is read by some search engines."> <meta name="KeyWords" content="add, your, keywords and phrases in this area, separated, by, commas, this, is read by only a, few search, engines"> <!-- CHANGE THE ABOVE THREE LINES --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Copyright" content="Allwebco Design Corporation http://allwebcodesign.com/"> <link rel="StyleSheet" href="coolstyle.css" type="text/css"> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="pop-closeup.js"></script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="javascripts.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <!-- START PAGE TABLE --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="center" valign="top"> <!-- LOGO AND MENU --> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="header.js"></script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="menu.js"></script> <!-- SHADOW TABLE --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" class="shadow"><tr><td> <img src="picts/spacer.gif" width="100" height="5" border="0" alt="Image"><br> </td></tr></table> <!-- SHADOW TABLE --> <!-- SPLIT TABLE --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" class="sidebarwidth"> <br><br><br> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="sidebar.js"></script> <br> </td><td align="center" valign="top"> <br><br><br> <!-- CONTENT TABLE --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" border="0" width="450"> <tr><td align="left" valign="top" class="just" style="text-align: left"> <span class="title">Améle Gagné</span><br><br> View her latest work <a href="gallery7.htm">here</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <strong>Amélie Gagné</strong> was born in Québec, Canada and from an early age showed an interest in art and all things creative. In 1997 she graduated with a diploma in Presentation Design from Sainte-Foy College, where she had her first formal introduction to art theory. <br /> <br /> Throughout her life she has held various employment involving theatre prop design and construction, arts & crafts classes and managing her own presentation design company. She has also participated in group exhibitions in her home province of Québec. Perhaps her finest creative achievements have come during her years with Les Ateliers du Carnaval, the company commissioned to produce floats for the internationally celebrated Québec Winter Carnival. <br /> <br /> Her first visit to <strong>Ireland</strong> was in 1996, but she returned in 2001 after completing the Camino De Santiago pilgrimage in northern Spain. This second trip was intended to be a brief sojourn before returning home, however, life decided otherwise and she is now in the process of obtaining Irish Citizenship. <br /> <br /> Presently, Amélie enjoys living and working in Killarney, Co. Kerry, where she is also exhibiting her work. She also teaches arts & crafts to adults with special needs for the Kerry Education Service, and nights classes at the local Community College. <br /> <br /> <span style="color: #000000"><strong> Artist Statement</strong> </span> <br /> <br /> "My work is simply a personal exploration of colour and texture, and of light and shadows. I choose to do this using the simple shapes of trees and hills, and by giving them magical fruits or fantastical patterns, to create a landscape rich of a dream-like atmosphere. <br /> <br /> Inspiration can come from a striking match of colours, by patterns seen in the field, and by the work of landscape artists and garden designers. <br /> <br /> Acrylic is my medium of choice, which is usually applied on board, preferring it to the bounciness of the canvas. The board is covered with a layer of black paint, and the colours are then added by thin layers, literally  rubbed onto the surface to allow the irregularities of the board to show through, thus giving the <br /> <br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%"> <tr> <td style="text-align: center"> <img src="picts/AmelieGagne.jpg" /></td> </tr> </table> </td><td width="5"> <img src="picts/spacer.gif" height="10" width="5" alt="image"><br> </td></tr></table> <!-- END CONTENT TABLE --> </td><td valign="top" width="40"> <!-- SPLIT TABLE --> <img src="picts/spacer.gif" border="0" width="20" height="30" alt="image"><br> </td></tr></table> <!-- SPLIT TABLE --> <br> <!-- COPYRIGHT FOOTER --> <span class ="footer"> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="footer.js"></script> </span> <!-- COPYRIGHT FOOTER --> </td></tr></table> <!-- END PAGE TABLE--> </body> </html>