- City
- Brossard
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- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 341
Os cane
Born on March 8, 1987, Os cane (Roxane Lessard) is an artist originally from the Cantons de l’Est. At the age of 4, she developed a fascination for painting, prompting her parents to enroll her in art classes to nurture her talent.
In 2004, she pursued her studies in fine arts at Cegep Marie-Victorin, where she explored other mediums and forms of art: sculpture, theater, and sewing. This curiosity made her a versatile artist.
In 2007, she graduated from college and solidified what would become her pictorial signature. After completing her studies in art, the desire to learn another creative field intrigued her. She then underwent training in clothing design at the École des métiers des faubourgs de Montréal in 2009.
Roxane spent 10 years in the fashion industry, working for a Montreal designer and co-founding her own men's clothing company, entirely designed and crafted in Montreal, which lasted for 4 years.
After all these years balancing between brushes and scissors, the need to paint and further develop herself as an artist became stronger than anything else. Today, Os cane is sought after for works that reveal a sensitivity as charged as they are delicate.
In the face of the uniqueness of her technique and compositions, her works leave no one indifferent.
"I'm interested in the emotion, the invisible impulses that emerge within ourselves. And then, in this inner force that drives us to control these impulses, to restore order, to return to a point of balance. Like a portrait of the invisible, I seek to represent human moments that words cannot name. This interaction between impulse and calm can be seen both as opposition and reconciliation. The artist who inspired me the most, strangely, is the fashion designer Alexander McQueen. When I discovered his universe, I was moved by the way he grafts nature onto the human body, in perfect symbiosis. In my paintings, nature is a symbol of strength and balance. Plants find their place, regenerate, and emerge from chaos. Birds, strong and fragile, act as guardians of this balance. I mainly use acrylic, which I dilute to play with transparencies, and I paint on both regular canvas or raw canvas for texture, as well as on wood panels."
