Danielle RICHARD ~ Canadian Painter ✿

Danielle Richard is a Canadian painter born in Quebec City, Canada. Danielle Richard is known for painting hyperrealistic portraits of females involved in various activities. She works with different mediums, such as oils, acrylic, and pastels. Over the years, pastel has turned out to be the artist’s favorite medium.

In 1975, Richard received a college diploma from the department of Plastic Arts at Cegep de Ste-Foy. She furthered her education at Laval University in Quebec, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts in 1980. Afterward, Danielle had training sessions in Montreal and at the University of Oxford in the UK.

Since 1975, Richard has participated in over forty-five solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States. She has received several awards and honors for her outstanding work, some of which include the Outstanding Acrylic Winner award at the 2010 Boldbrush Painting Competition and First Prize Excellence from the Society of Canadian Artists.

Richard’s works are in prestigious collections across Canada, such as the Royal Bank of Canada, Laurier Museum, Glaxo, and the Loto-Quebec collection. The buzzing artist, a member of reputable art societies in Canada and America, currently lives in Quebec City, where she also paints.

My work is a testament to a quest for beauty, it is in a way its guiding thread. It echoes those moments of silence and peace, inspired by life far from the tumult. I often paint the "eternal feminine", the one I know especially from the inside, the one that proves the best medium for the emotions that I prefer. The mediums used are pastel, acrylic and oil. My approach is part of a movement called "realistic", whose language is optimistic, poetic and timeless.