The exhibition Artist Books offers a sensitive and tactile journey through the creative worlds of three artists from Québec’s Eastern Townships: Andrée Hudon, Denyse Francoeur, and Diane Dugal. United by their passion for paper, materiality, and visual experimentation, these artists explore the boundaries between text, image, printmaking, and calligraphy.
Each work reads like an open book—an artistic narrative that invites visitors to slow down and observe. Whether through engraved watercolors, illuminated letters, or fragments of abstract landscapes, these works reveal a deep sensitivity to gesture, texture, and time. Traditional materials are reimagined, combined, or even disrupted to create new poetic forms.
Andrée Hudon focuses on printmaking, using it as a means of introspective and identity-based exploration through plant motifs and delicate landscapes. Denyse Francoeur, an experienced calligrapher, blends classical and contemporary lettering styles to create compositions that range from readable to abstract. Diane Dugal moves between figuration and abstraction using mortar, acrylic paint, and spontaneous techniques such as scraping, layering, and glazing.
In this exhibition, the book is no longer a passive object: it becomes a space for expression, reflection, and memory. The works reconnect us with the pleasure of touch, of slow reading, and of attentive observation. They embody the fruitful intersection of artistic intimacy and public encounter.
Artist Books is an invitation to rediscover the book as a complete art object—at once fragile, daring, and profoundly human.
