Jacques background is accounting, while his passion is art in a multitude of mediums. Practicing his craft for 25+ years he has woven an intricate tapestry of artwork that has a range many would be intrigued by. He loves the process of working with his inspiration - where he grew up in Northern Quebec, and the places he likes to travel.

Inspired by landscapes, although the longer you look at these compositions the more you begin to see the thin layers that he uses to 'have the images create themselves.' That the layers he applied previously shine through the layers painted thinly on top. This he admits must be from his experience with working with pastels.

Primarily Jacques uses oil paint, but he also works with watercolour, sculpture, pastel and a range of other mediums to capture the atmosphere, the emotion evoked by nature. To catch the essence of a space and time. Amongst his mediums he pauses time with his compositions of stillness.

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Carolyn Botelho/Jacques Descoteaux

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I discovered this genius in high school, or was it somewhere in the collective consciousness that I saw his melting clocks? I’m not certain, but I know when I found this eclectically strange human with his peculiar moustache, his Spanish background, I was hooked. At the time I was getting into the band The Doors, and Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception, Brave New World, and The Perennial Philosophy.

It was an electric time of innovation and industry that was buzzing and thriving with creativity during a very traumatic political period. Let’s take a deep dive on these Artists and what was so radical a century ago, It was a period of time that was chaotic, progressive, and downright controversial. With an active movement of imagination becoming a source of spiritual renewal. There were veins of international networks exploring poetry, writing, philosophy, politics, and social change brought about by the rapid urbanization, and advancements in science and technology.

There was a fever frenzy pace that was happening simultaneously and independently. A concentration of fertile energetic ideas that challenged the establishment. There was an urgency that hadn’t been seen before. An almost neurotic romanticism during this time, it was dynamic, and even a little bit sexy. How multiple cultures, countries and climates were collectively collaborating, composing, and creating. They were pushing the envelope, challenging the critics, causing riots, and even shocking the bourgeois aesthetic – Duchamp’s Urinal readymade placed nonchalantly inside the gallery signed R. Mutt.

Podcast Credits: Carolyn Botelho

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Exploring Art for 50+ years has proven to Anne MaClear that painting will always have it's challenges, and new ways of seeing. MaClear looks to find unexplored avenues to go down that provide new opportunities. Having the educational framework in her bones of numerous classes ranging from pastels, oil stick, embroidery, encaustic, wax, oil, and textile to name a few.

From her admiration of fellow Artists Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell - two pioneers from the Modernist art movement; more specifically Pop, and Abstract Expressionism. MaClear punctuates her practice with flourishes from these two Artists. So subtly and pervasively, that they have an uncanny resemblance, but one that is not inherently obvious. This is a skill Anne has developed over decades in her creative practice.

Join me as we discuss the mediums, the message; what being Canadian addsto her practice, and what a little bit of chaos brings to artwork. How titles are chosen; and how often people assume Abstract Art is easier, when in fact it is quite the opposite. Anne shares how and why she is intrigued to take on this style.

Connect with Anne MaClear: https://propellerartgallery.com/members/anne-mcalear/

Podcast Credits:

Anne MaClear/Carolyn Botelho

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