Saint-Marc – Gilles Gingras

Gilles GINGRAS – Huile sur toile signée et mesurant 16×20 pouces avec à l’endos l’empreinte digitale de l’artiste

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”.