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About Me:

Je suis Canadienne Française and now also American!
I am a visual artist. I paint because I must. My earthly experience consists of the ongoing balance between the outer world and the inner world ~ being present while connected to self. I often refer to this as "the ongoing in & out'.
It is during my connection to self, that my painting process truly breathes.

About My Art:

Soul Communication.

The Essence of the Earthly Experience.

Expressionist.

Dances somewhere between abstraction ~ figurative art.

Acrylic on canvas & on paper. Chinese ink (encre de chine) on paper. Encaustic on canvas. True buon fresco. Sculpture. Computer art (new exploratory chapter!).

Formally educated in painting, art history, true buon fresco and feng shui.

Art exhibitions in Montreal, New York and Roma.

Favorite Music:

Throughout the years ~ Beethoven, Pavarotti, The Eagles, Supertramp, Led Zeppelin, The Cars, The Smiths, Split Enz, The Kinks, Barenaked Ladies, Bee Gees, Doobie Brothers, Rolling Stones, Queen, Pretenders, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Tom Petty, Simon & Garfunkel, Cheap Trick, Barry White, James Blunt, John Legend, Corrine Bailey Rae, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Billy Joel, Elton John, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Sade, Sarah Mclaughlin, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, and so on...

Favorite Films:

Cinema Paradiso, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, Zeitgeist, Godfather, Il Postino, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Schindler's List, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Gaslight, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Big Night, Magnolia, Moonstruck, and so on...

Favorite Artists:

Picasso, Tiziano, Tintoretto, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Pontormo, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Cezanne, Bacon, Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Rothko, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Egon Schiele, Lucien Freud, Modigliani, Matisse, Daumier, Vuillard, Bonnard, O'Keeffe, Orozco, Giotto, Artemisia Gentileschi, Gainsborough, Corot, and so on...

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http://MCJArt.net

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Please visit MCJArt.blogspot.com for a few thoughts on art & life

November 23

MCJ commented on MCJ's photo 'YangedYin'

Patty, your words are very generous ~ Merci ~ MCJ ~

November 22

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November 22

Patty O'Hearn Kickham commented on MCJ's photo 'YangedYin'

This piece is just exquisite. There is a sense of longing ....but hope as well. Your colours evoke a very loving feeling.

November 22

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November 22

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November 22

MCJ commented on Luke Gilliam's photo 'Cabrita Notori'

Luke, I'm not sure if this is one of the new pieces you added, but I do feel this piece quite profoundly ~ I 'see' that you let your true Soul guide you and did let let your head try to complicate things! It reveals great breath and confidence in...

November 22

MCJ and dennis faherty are now friends

November 22

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November 19

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November 16

MCJ commented on Hermann Angeli's photo 'OASEN - OASIS'

Hermann, Great work of art! ~ MCJ ~

November 16

MCJ commented on MCJ's photo 'The Cauldron'

Thank you so much for taking the time view and comment on one of my favorites! ~ MCJ ~

November 16

Larisa Clegg Colantonio commented on MCJ's photo 'The Cauldron'

wonderful!

November 16

MCJ commented on MCJ's photo 'The Cauldron'

Rip, Indeed, your blog "Inspired" truly reflects "The Cauldron"'s emotions! Thank you, ~MCJ ~

November 15

Rip Caswell commented on MCJ's photo 'The Cauldron'

Ya thats it! awsome work!

November 15

MCJ commented on Emma Delpech's photo 'He Watches Me'

Beautiful piece! ~ MCJ ~

November 15

MCJ commented on Rip Caswell's blog post 'Inspired'

My heartbeat grew stronger ~ and ever so stronger, at each new word read ~ I soooooooo relate. In many ways, your powerful, beautiful expression of the human soul's earthly experience, reflects many of the emotions expressed in many of my paintin...

November 15

MCJ commented on MCJ's blog post 'Creativity'

I thank you so much Rip ~ I relate to your words and art as well ~ your support is wonderful for my soul to read. Indeed, I believe that we devote our lives to what we need to learn ~ to grow. ~ MCJ ~

November 15

MCJ commented on MCJ's photo 'Moon's Wisdom'

Merci mes chères dames, Claudie et Patty! The hues lean more towards burnt oranges and umbers (some 'salmon tones'!), as well as earthy greens ~ a little tamer than my more fiery pieces! ~ MCJ ~

November 15

CLAUDIE BASTIDE commented on MCJ's photo 'Moon's Wisdom'

merci MC pour tes commentaires sympas. Moi j'aime bien cette peinture en matière et en relief,on a envie d'y toucher !!!! je lis ton commentaire....le bleu est déjà présent et donne la profondeur

November 15

MCJ's Blog

Creativity

This text, I share with all b-Uncut members, to thank Robert B. Newton who reminded me of the beauty of 'the Process' this morning; Cameron Craig who started a discussion regarding Creativity at the Artist Café many months ago, which led me to write these vibrating emotions on the subject; Marie Kazalia who encouraged me to save this text; Jerry Hanks who first noticed this painting on b-Uncut; and all of us who have experienced a glimpse of 'Creativity' in our life.… Continue

Posted on November 4, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Fire

People often look at my paintings and see fire. They then express their uneasy feeling stemming from this perception. My feeling is that fire is all mighty, powerful and beautiful.

In feng shui, fire is one of the five elements that makes up our physical earthly experience. Compared… Continue

Posted on May 19, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Wood

When I was a little girl, all I painted were trees. Specifically, I favored the branches ~ the multiple, winding, crossing, thick, thin, long, short branches of the trees. I followed their movement ~ thousands of branches steming from the same solitary source of a single trunk.

Tra… Continue

Posted on May 15, 2009 at 1:03pm —

Water

What role does water play in our lives ~ in our ongoing quest for balance and well-being? Why do some people love the ocean, while others prefer to go hiking up a mountain? Is this attraction to and need for water specific to certain people or rather to certain times in our lives? Pe… Continue

Posted on April 16, 2009 at 2:30pm — 6 Comments

Obama

Obama ~

Obama is Creativity ~

Creativity is Now ~ Now is All ~

Embrace the Now ~ Embrace Your Creativity ~ Embrace You ~

The World needs Creativity ~ for Breath~Growth~Evolution ~ Into All the Future Nows ~

Be Thankful for Nows ~ Creativity ~ Be Thankful for Obama ~

Act Now ~ Y… Continue

Posted on January 20, 2009 at 10:00am — 7 Comments

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At 10:37am on November 22, 2009, Luke Gilliam said…: Thank you MCJ! La chose la plus ironique c'est que nous cherchons toujours la simplicite. Mais de trouver le simple c'est toujours le plux complex! Je partage ce qui est dedans - et j'espere qui'il va toujours resortir!

At 9:35am on November 22, 2009, Patty O'Hearn Kickham said…: Thanks for the comment and the encouragement! Have a wonderful Sunday!!!

At 2:03am on November 19, 2009, dennis faherty said…: Awesom works..enjoyed every minute spent viewing them..great talent..thanks for sharing..

At 10:48pm on November 14, 2009, Luke Gilliam said…: Thank you again MCJ for your comment on my work - grazie!

At 8:56am on November 14, 2009, Larisa Clegg Colantonio said…: Hi MCJ! Thank you for your comments. I have always like Modigliani! I really like your work as well. Great use of colors. A lot of passion!

At 7:56pm on November 11, 2009, Luke Gilliam said…: Well I'll share something with you that a friend in UK shared with me, a photographer, he said "paint only what you want to see, because if you want to see it, other people will want to see it".

I now live by those words and it's working for me. I love the stillness and rigour in your portraits but your abstract pieces are so incredible they all kind of work together - so maybe it doesn't matter what you make - it will still be incredible? I'm looking forward to visit the West London Studios for B Uncut and meet more and more artists - I stay inside too much.

At 10:10am on November 10, 2009, Luke Gilliam said…: Hi MCJ, I saw your post underneath Vinyasa (hope I got tha right). It was a huge pleasure to wake up today and see it on the slide show on the main home page. While it doesn't pack the power punch that your spiritual abstract pieces do, which seems like your main focus, a good portrait with some very soothing colours like grey and yellow can really broaden the portfolio you are presenting. I find in Vinyasa a stillness that I wish I could get in my pieces.

I too am struggling greatly right now with the decision to put out a larger proportion of abstract landscapes or a set of wild and grotesque portraits. Landscapes of shapes and flows allow more experimentation but portraits seem to sell. In the end all we can do is to leave a strong mark that we were here and used the little attention on earth to pour into the act of creation. Then the framework of the world, whatever it is , is left to judge and enterpret our work. I am connected with a new gallery now called City Art in Toronto which is looking for new work and will post their contact info very soon. Best, L ::)

At 5:38am on November 7, 2009, Robert Wilkinson said…: Hi MCJ
I am glad you enjoyed the photos of Montreal
Robert

At 10:47pm on November 5, 2009, Robert Anderson said…: Awe I am glad you had a wee laugh from it xxxx Bobby

At 7:21pm on November 5, 2009, Robert Anderson said…: Awe you know your work shines through , just put a funny blog on for you it is a charicter called jacko , he is stuffed monkey and my alter ego , my mum said I was the little boy who lived up a tree so I just love rambling in the woods taking photos of them and trying to capture the texture of the bark ,xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx