Charles
Leblanc
Oil on canvas
The artist
Toile réalisée à l’âge de 16 ans (1971)
Born in Valleyfield, Québec, with paintbrush in hand, - or almost: his father was a lettering artist – Charles Leblanc began painting at the age of 16. After graduating in graphic design, he started his career in the ad business as a layout man and illustrator. Leblanc soon made a name for himself and set up his own graphic arts studio. Thirty years later, his expertise as an art director, which has often been rewarded by his peers, prompts him to unleash at last his lifelong passion for painting.
A self-taught painter, Leblanc puts on the canvas his love for life and all his favorite things that roam through his mind. Led by his emotions, the artist uses a joyful color palette from which, as he pleases, a figurative style can move to the abstract with equal bliss. Leblanc’s generous and powerful strokes have become an unmistakable signature in the world of art.
Le feu sacré de peindre (2010)
In 2010, after a lunch with his childhood friend Jacques Rousse, their talk motivates Leblanc to realize his dream, painting professionally. From that moment on, the rage for painting allowed him to abandon his computers for the brushes, oil paint and canvas.This trigger of a passion, suppressed for too long, reveals to us an artist in full possession of his talents. The energy of the brushstroke, the bright colors and the graphic mastery of Charles Leblanc combine brilliantly throughout the themes he addresses in his works.
All my paintings
tell two stories,
mine and yours.
From urban scene to lavender fields, from irises to Japanese koi, from the cult of objects to celebrities portraits, from festive to contemplative,from figurative to abstraction, from fast pace life to zen moments, from humans to machines, Leblanc’s series, question us aboutthe past, present or future.
