Oil on canvas
Oil allows for a slow depth built through passages, transparency, and texture. I use it especially for portraits and contemplative works.
The artist
About
A practice guided by light, living things, and attention to what deserves to be seen slowly.
Caroline Thibault
Where light
becomes presence.
I am a Canadian painter based in Québec. My work explores light in all its forms — light on a face at rest, light filtering through a summer morning, the inner light of those I have the privilege to paint.
I work primarily in oil and pastel. These two mediums allow me to capture what I seek: a presence, a suspended moment, something alive.
My works often begin with an emotion before they begin with a subject. What interests me is not simply reproducing what I see, but conveying what I feel before something that deserves to be seen slowly.
Mediums and practice
Two materials,
one search for light.
Pastel
Pastel captures colour with an almost airy immediacy. It lets me follow natural light while preserving its softness and presence.
“What interests me is not simply reproducing what I see, but conveying what I feel before something that deserves to be seen slowly.”Read my artistic approach →