{"id":33972,"date":"2011-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/?post_type=artiste&#038;p=33972"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T00:39:55","slug":"michel-beaudoin","status":"publish","type":"artiste","link":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/artistes\/michel-beaudoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Beaudoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>Michel Beaudouin was born at Saint-Didace, Lanaudi\u00e8re (Qc).<\/p>\n<h3>Training<\/h3>\n<p>Michel Beaudouin studied advertising graphics at the Institut des Arts graphiques de Montr\u00e9al and worked in the printing industry for several years. Fascinated by painting, he took courses at Studio Couleur d&#8217;Art and attended Francine Labelle\u2019s workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Besides his diversified Professional Activities, Beaudouin has always pursued a passion for drawing. Once retired, he devoted himself entirely to painting, and he is equally talented in figurative, semi-figurative and abstract art, using a varied scope of mediums covering acrylic, oil, dry pastel, watercolor and charcoal. <\/p>\n<h3>Professional Activities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Graphic designer, Studio de Cr\u00e9ation Grapholith, Studio Novo<\/li>\n<li>Advertising graphics freelancer, Service de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 incendie de Montr\u00e9al<\/li>\n<li>Teaching, practical courses for painting sur le motif, Studio Couleur d\u2019Art<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2011 \u2013 Jury\u2019s selection, section Galerie d\u2019art, Salon International de Design d&#8217;Int\u00e9rieurs de Montr\u00e9al<\/li>\n<li>2010 \u2013 Jury\u2019s slection, Toronto International Art Expo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Professional Memberships<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Member of Culture Lanaudi\u00e8re, groupe des Quinze, MRC D\u2019Autray<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Magenta Blues collective sponsored by Francine Labelle and Yves Durand<\/li>\n<li>Signatory member of Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du pastel sec de l\u2019Est du Canada (SPEC)<\/li>\n<li>Member of Cercle des Artistes, Peintres et Sculpteurs du Qu\u00e9bec<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Exhibitions<\/h3>\n<p>Michel Beaudouin has taken part in numerous group and solo Exhibitions since 1998. <\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of them :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jardin botanique de Montr\u00e9al, exhibition Faits de papier, 2010<\/li>\n<li>Studio Couleur d\u2019Art, guest artist, 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Biblioth\u00e8que de Saint-F\u00e9lix-de-Valois, 2009<\/li>\n<li>Saint-Didace, Quatuor Jazz \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9glise et Peinture en direct with Magenta Blues, 2007-2011<\/li>\n<li>Mus\u00e9e Marc-Aur\u00e8le Fortin, exhibition Aquarelle, 2005 <\/li>\n<li>Consulat du Portugal, Montr\u00e9al, 2001<\/li>\n<li>Mus\u00e9e r\u00e9gional Vaudreuil-Soulanges, 1987, 1994<\/li>\n<li>Maison Antoine-Lacombe, Joliette, 1992<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michel Beaudouin\u2019s works are on permanent display at <em>Galerie Richelieu<\/em>, in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel Beaudoin&#8217;s painting is a festival of colors. <\/p>\n<p>Whether figurative or abstract, it&#8217;s always a pretext for the artist to make his palette warble, to dress the canvas in cheerful, thrilling tones, to conjure up sprightliness.<\/p>\n<p>Beaudoin is a versatile artist who uses acrylics, oils, pastels, watercolors and charcoal with equal ease.<\/p>\n<p>As a keen observer, Beaudoin enjoys playing with light and shadow to prompt movement through colors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29835,"template":"","class_list":["post-33972","artiste","type-artiste","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste\/33972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artiste"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste\/33972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}