GUEST ARTIST

Francoise Sabourin

Bio

Written by Angelique Richer

BBorn on March 10, 1939, Françoise Sabourin is an artist who explores various mediums that express themselves through drawing, painting, printmaking and photography. The composition of her works is a constant gesture and her vast production of drawings spans over sixty years. His pencil stroke skillfully marries art to movement. Her singular approach reflects an astonishing coherence: inspired at once by nature, mystery and the ephemerality of our existence.

Françoise Sabourin seeks in each of her works to draw lines in order to mark the space-time that inhabits her. For her, paper, pencil and color stick are the most direct and spontaneous means of communicating her daily life. 

Her impulses come from her almost daily practice of TMC (a creative mobilization technique invented by Wolfgang Luthe) and the birth of her four boys (Jérôme, Gabriel, Thomas and Alexis). This immense fertile ground has allowed her to transpose her creative energy. For her, "you spend the same vital energy in front of a blank canvas as you would to hold a baby from its first heartbeat. It requires being fully open and humble to welcome the result. 

Over the years, her work has been exhibited in several galleries: solo and in groups. She has also participated for many years in the auctions of Les Impatients, Parlez-moi d'amour.

Françoise Sabourin studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, alongside Albert Dumouchel, Clément Picard, Monique Charbonneau, etc., and then in Paris, at the Atelier de Friedlander, which explains her love for engraving. 

A discreet artist, this exhibition represents for Françoise a way of underlining the complicity that has existed over time between Micheline Beauchemin (her great friend) and her son (Jérôme Sabourin). Naturally, two people who are dear to her. Although their arts are distinct, one can see an embodied connivance in their works. Micheline's weavings, Jérôme's inks on paper and Françoise's pencil drawings all have textures that respond to each other: "Les liens tissés" (The Woven Links) thus marks the formidable bond that unites them. 

At 83 years old, Françoise still draws as much as ever in her studio in Beloeil and fully assumes her life as an artist.
As she says herself: "I don't have an artistic approach. I have never had one. My drawings I draw them, I do not think them, they are necessary. They help me to delimit where I begin, where the other ends, to hear my voice... among the other voices."