Born in Montreal, Bellemare lives and works in Quebec. She holds a BA in History of Art (UQAM) and holds several private training courses in visual arts. For more than 30 years, she made a career in the cinematographic world as a make-up artist and joined her passion for painting. She has participated in various collective exhibitions in Quebec and her works are the subject of various private collections in Canada and the United States.
My painting is meant as a springboard, a projection of the intangible. I explore the juncture between figurative and abstract, and seeks the quintessence of the force that emanates from these dualities and their points of contact. Interpellate by the inducing thread of union and entropy, I begin a dialogue between the opposite characters of shadow and light, life and death, intuition and reason, time and space. I try to liberate and extirpate the pure emotion from it and a certain discomfort of being, through characters and hybrid forms that reveals from the inspiration. Guided by intuition and without a final concept, my paintings are characterized by the combination of an abstract touch and a pictorial language, superimposing texture and material, combining layers of glaze and pastels; I construct and deconstruct them in the breath of my visions, in constant search for a haptic prescience. My painting suggests an introspective connection that can help to question the intimate ties between consciousness and time.
www.jocelyne-bellemare.com

Personal exhibition, ‘’Au-delà des frontières’’, Espace Desjardins, library Raymond-Lévesque, Longueuil, 2018
She participated in various group exhibitions.
Gallery at Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, Montréal, ’’Unis Vert l’Intemporel’’. 2018
Gallery Le Livart, Montréal, ‘’Unis Vert l’Intemporel’’, 2018
Galerie Antoine Lacombe, Saint-Charles-Borromée, Québec 2018
Galerie Gora, Montréal, Tandem with Claude Lessard 2018
« Two for the road », Splash Design, Montréal, collective 2015
Galerie ARTUS, Montréal, collective, 2002
Gallery V.Donohue 1 Studio , Montreal , collective 1995

Mark Rothko, William Blake, Fernand Khnopff