Dominique Beaupre St. Pierre

EDUCATION

2008 Arts and Crafts Program: Glass, Espace Verre, Montreal, Canada

2000 Fine Arts program, College of Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011 Annual Canadian Glass Show, West End Gallery, Victoria, BC

2010 Kaleidoscope, Espace Création Loto-Québec, Montreal, Canada

2009 SOFA (Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art), Chicago, US

2008 Emerging Montreal artist, Elena Lee Gallery, Montreal

I have always been fascinated by the process of blossoming. It is with pleasure that I watch that which evolves, plants, buildings, and individuals, landscapes, societies, modes of thought and of course, glass. Nature inspires me, its ability to renew itself, its simultaneous force and delicacy. The plant is at the heart of my work, as much in its form and detail as in its development. For me blown glass, in the process of its creation, mirrors the growth of a plant sped up and made visible. With blown glass the ball is the seed, it is responsible for the final form as the seed determines the eventual plant. In nature all is prepared at the interior before arriving in blossom at the exterior. I see my work in blown glass by the same light. When we look at a plant or a work of glass the process is hidden”.