Category: Temporary exhibit

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.

The exhibition Landscapes of Québec pays tribute to the visual and emotional richness of our territory through the eyes of professional Quebec painters. Gathered in this collective exhibition, their works explore the beauty and diversity of the province’s rural and urban landscapes—from the quiet charm of small villages to the vibrant energy of urban centres.

Each painting stands as a testament to the artists’ intimate relationship with their environment. Shapes, colours, and light capture the seasons, paths, distant horizons, and familiar scenes. Moving between figurative tradition and more contemporary gestures, these works portray a Québec that is inhabited, observed, and transformed through artistic vision.

As visitors move through the exhibition, they travel a sensory geography where nature, architecture, and collective memory intersect. These landscapes do more than depict a place—they awaken emotion, memory, and inner resonance. Some evoke the solitude of wide open spaces, others celebrate the warmth of community, the liveliness of neighbourhoods, or the quiet strength of forests and lakes.

This exhibition is meant to be accessible and unifying. It speaks to nature lovers, art enthusiasts, curious visitors, and local residents who may recognize a piece of home or a familiar atmosphere.

Landscapes of Québec is a pictorial journey through the places that surround, shape, and move us—an invitation to see our shared territory with new eyes.