Cabane à Sucre – Gilles Gingras

Gingras, Gilles Emmanuel (1932-2002) Cabane à sucre (1977) 
Oil on canvas, signed and dated on lower right Gingras 77, signed on the back Gilles E. Gingras
Dimension: 12″ x 16″ 30.5 x 50.7 cm

Gilles Emmanuel Gingras (1932-2002) was a painter, engraver, and sculptor born in Magog, Quebec.
Formally trained at the Canadian Arts Academy, he has exhibited throughout Canada, the United States, France and Africa.

Working in oil, acrylic, watercolor, red chalk, pencil and liquid crystals, Gingras evolved a uniquely recognizable impressionist style that rendered landscapes with subtle desaturated tones and colours.

As a representative of the Canadian Foreign Assistance Bureau in Western Africa, Gingras taught at art schools in Chad and Niger, painting landscapes and exhibiting in Nigeria in 1965.

It has been noted that while in Africa, Gingras witnessed a sandstorm whose phenomenal power augmented his visual horizon, possibly influencing what would become his signature style.

Voted ‘Painter of the Year’ by a McGill University Council (1969) Gingras maintained that painting was for him

“a daily discipline, but also a continuous search”.