After 25 years of toiling in a communications firm, Rita Thivierge says that she has at last — through her art — crossed the boundary separating her from her soul’s deepest aspirations… all in the space of a canvas. Rita Thivierge is at the mere threshold of a new creative process, but her paintings already show a strong sense of direction. With a rare sense of color and an agile brush stroke, she paints light-filled impressions of the various landscapes that have left an imprint on her memory. Her canvases are punctuated by numerous interventions on her part — Thivierge doesn’t hesitate to resort to a vast arsenal of fine and broad brushes, palette knives and even her hands — giving rise to an imagery that poses a sort of visual enigma since the subject of the painting is masked by brush strokes and applications of color. In fact, the artist’s work, as a whole, tends to dispel the grand illusion of appearances. It’s as if the transcription of reality were not possible because, as the artist explains, “any attempt to transcribe reality represents a metamorphosis or interpretation of what is perceived."

VISUAL ARTS LE SOLEIL
Saturday, March 12, 2005
by Michel Bois, journalist

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