GUEST ARTIST

Francoise Sabourin

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Written by Angélique Richer

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

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

Her impulses come in particular 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). Immense fertile ground that allowed her to transpose her creative energy. For her: "we spend in front of a blank canvas the same vital energy as holding a baby from its first heartbeat." It requires being fully open and humble to welcome the result.

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

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

A discreet artist, this exhibition represents for Françoise a way of highlighting this complicity that has crossed 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, we see connivances embodied in their works. There are textures that respond to each other in Micheline's weavings, Jérôme's inks on paper and Françoise's pencil drawings: "Les liens wovens" thus mark the formidable bond that unites them.

At 83 years old, Françoise still draws as much in her studio in Beloeil and fully embraces her life as an artist.

As she herself says: "I don't have an artistic approach. I never had one. I draw my drawings, I don't think about them, they are necessary. They help me to delimit where I begin, where the other ends, to hear my voice... among the other voices."