MARTIN BEAUPRÉ

Martin Beau Pré was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1961. He has found his point of balance by associating art with energy. His painting is a reflection of his inner world. A Zen journey which reveals a search for beauty and harmony in muffled tones, with serene, uncluttered compositions.

Martin Beau Pré has practiced meditation, numerology, Reiki and other techniques for energy control. He has taught and researched energy resonance for ten years. For thirty years he was a professional hair stylist. Martin Beau Pré takes pleasure in transmitting his passion, and now lives as a full-time artist. In 1995, he founded the Médit’Art workshop, where he teaches modern and intuitive painting. He has also moderated art therapy workshops for amateur and professional painters, in the deserts of the United States and in Hawaii.

His contemporary canvases arouse profound emotions, thanks to his accomplished mastery of colors and his completely resistance-free approach. His paintings combine energy and dynamism with tranquility and serenity.

Inspired by his travels, he creates canvases imbued with Asian culture. His works show flowering cherry-trees, mountains, Buddha's faces, geishas, and symbols and writings inspired by Zenga. Nothing is left to chance, there is a reason behind every detail.

Martin Beau Pré has met with Buddhist monks in Thailand and Japan who have become a great source of inspiration. In his eyes, the principles of Japanese art are sacred. The secret which lends power to his art is this: the void is to be embellished, but never filled. Create the maximum effect with the minimum means.

His preferred luminous intensity is white, because it offers him the possibility of attaining the infinite. His pictures breathe quietude with their soft nuances, sometimes set off by a beautiful note of garnet, such as can be found in Asian silks. He works in various mediums: oil, modeling clay, sable, Swarovski crystal, ink.

In his canvases, there is never a confrontation between form and space. Everything coexists, everything is connected. Impression of calm, instant of grace, mastery of life, everything is softened.

He has shown his work in numerous exhibitions; his pictures are sold all over the world and some form part of private or corporate collections in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean islands.

Martin Beau Pré offers us a mystical operation of the senses, a sort of voyage to the borders of the equilibrium and the immensity which reside within us. An intense poetry to be lived and explored!