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photo credit: suzanne bateman
Emeline Villedary is a visual artist living on a rural homestead in Rigaud, Québec.
With a degree in Interior Design and a background in Philosophy and Cultural Studies, her work resides at the intersection of motherhood and ecology.
Often asking questions of belonging and place, her practice emerges through activations with the natural world, where the body becomes both subject and instrument. Her finished works are fluid in form—spanning painting, ink-making, drawing, textile work, land installations, collage, poetry, and writing.
Through dye gardens, pigment-making, foraging walks through the mountain, and informal artist gatherings. The seeds gleaned from those explorations are then alchemized into pigments, dyes, and pressed flowers; transforming the findings of ambulatory experiences into the primary matter of her art. Her work aims to illuminate the sometimes invisible cycle of germination, bloom, decay and renewal.
You can find her writings here: SUBSTACK
January 2024-2025 'Wheel of the Year' , Digital Art Project, Rigaud, Qc
January 2022-2023 'Mother Herbal' , Ray of Light Community- Tammi Salas, CA USA
April 2021 'Cosmic Cliffs' Online Collection, Rigaud, Qc
September 2020 'Reverie' group show, Hampton Gallery, Montreal Qc
January 2020 Vivace // Perennial ' solo show, Hampton Gallery, Montreal Qc
March 2019 'Cosmic Fields' solo show, Cafe Elementaire, Montreal Qc
Dec 2018 'Myth of Arrival', Art Bomb Online
July 2018 'Imaginary Pastoral' solo show, Damask + Dentelle, Westmount, Qc
May 2018 ' Equine' group show 2 Barn Owls, Hudson, Qc
November 2017 'In Between' solo show, Victor Rose, Pointe-Claire, Qc
October 2017 'Botanical Cuttings' custom works for online retailer babasouk.ca
May 2017 'Vortex' solo show, Beige, Montreal
Feb 2017 'Embodied' solo show, Lili + Oli, Montreal
Jan 2017 'Arrival' solo show, Rigaud Library, Qc
Nov 2016 'October Flowers' solo show, Pottery Barn DIX30, Qc
photo credit : Stephanie Hebert
ARTIST STATEMENT
The world is full of beauty and mystery jumbled in among the chaotic and
mundane. Through painting and collage Emeline Villedary celebrates and
shares the glowing sensation of delight in those moments of discovery.
Her interest in the powers of nature, the female form, community and
being witnessed are present in recurring motifs. The whole is an expression
of vitality and the search for balance.
Crafting a story of her in between moments, Emeline invites the viewer into an exploration of inner life and outer reality. Her paintings become a road map for reflection. They encourage you to recognize small moments and celebrate honest connections.
Together, maybe we can make sense of it all.
Maybe we can press pause.
Maybe we can embrace that we are simultaneously the problem and the solution.
Maybe we can ask ourselves why not.
Maybe we can encourage each other to try.
