Danielle Richard lives in Quebec City, Canada, where she was
born and educated.
Fascinated from an early age by the world of pictorial art and
always surrounded by the tools “for making works of art”, she wasted no time
deciding on her future... “I loved painting and it seemed only natural for me
to become an artist!”
So she began her studies in art: a CEGEP degree in plastic
arts, university studies in visual arts, semesters abroad, artist training
trips… “I spent more and more time in the museums of Europe, which gave me the
creative nourishment that both humbled me and inspired me on. Before a
particularly striking work, it always seemed clear to me that I had to take up
the quest for beauty and harmony that so many other artists had begun before me.”
Her fascination with the singularity of light is something that has and will
probably always inspire the works of Danielle Richard.
She received grants from the Quebec government and the
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation on two occasions (Scholarships I and II). The
first helped her to refine her knowledge of original lithography at the Dona
Miro studio in Montreal, and the second made it possible to take a semester
abroad on “Watercolor in English landscapes” at the University of Oxford in
Great Britain. In 1994, she became the youngest artist to feature in a
retrospective at Villa Bagatelle in Quebec City.
Each of her exhibitions has met with a warm and enthusiastic
response from the public. She never ceases to be moved when she realizes “that
after so much time spent in solitude putting to canvas these faces, places, and
emotions, someone somewhere is touched” by her art.
She says that she has enough projects and wonderful images
stored in her mind to keep her busy for the rest of her days... “That tells me
I chose the right path.”
“Many of Danielle Richard’s paintings feature a vista, a
clearing, a door, or a window through which a feminine gaze appears to flee,
but what it truly seeks is to delve into its most intimate being.”
“Beauty,” she says, “is a word more and more people are
afraid of.” For so many artists who no longer dare to break the taboo, Danielle
Richard has become a heroic figure. Luckily, she is there, lucid and invisible,
hidden away in her studio, wrapped up in the immensity of her vision, removed
from the dictates of her time. By straying from the contemporary, she remains
eternal.” (Source, Régis Tremblay, Le Soleil).
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