First, harmony with yourself,

then with others

and everything.

It’s a season of holding on and letting go:

Winter held on with one last storm.  Happily April showers merge us with Spring.

Everything is reborn again all the time. I hold on, I let go – I paint affirmative.

Now.

Just being; painting a large abstract, colourful, joyful, lots of ecstatic movement.

The Present does not end.

I begin the new year by participating in a group exhibit celebrating our Cosmos.

The show continues until February 1st.

Galerie Crystal Racine 1701 Gilford, Montreal.

I’m an adventurous ten years old, alone at the zoo; it’s an idyllic prairie-blue-sky summer day. Suddenly I am confronted by a large bird screeching pityingly at the sky and pounding its wings against the bars of its cage.  No one seems to notice; how is it everyone walks by so oblivious? Distraught I chase down a zookeeper who explains it’s just a golden eagle that has arrived; this is its first day. This heartbreaking sight cuts me to this day.  When I paint I feel a golden eagle breaking through – gliding out into the embrace of an open universe.  This year I aspire to soar to greater heights in search of images that inspire, that restore freedom of the Spirit and a greater respect for our place in nature.

The BINARY STARS exhibit is on from December 4th until the 16th.

I will be present at the Gallery on weekends on the afternoons of the 15th and 16th from 1 pm onwards until 6 pm.

The vernissage was a success and included a performance of poetry by André Guy Robert, accompanied by yours truly on harmonica. 

The opening is from 5 pm to 8:30 pm at the Galerie Crystal Racine – 1701 Gilford Montréal, QC  Tel: 514-284-2347.

A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass.  Crystal and I are exhibiting values that are our shared center:  universality, humanism, ecology and a cosmologic perspective.

I will be present at the Gallery on weekends on the afternoons of the 15th and 16th from 1 pm onwards until 6 pm. 

The roots of my cosmological perspective

My childhood was dedicated to solitary daydreaming – an infinite pleasure wandering beneath prairie skies.  And so I create the art only as I am and not by anyone else’s rules; my heart and mind are open to the wonders of both the visible and invisible.  I began painting because I am fascinated by the state of fixed contemplation in front of a work of art, where the infinitely large and infinitely small meld with my inner life.  During the creative process there is a furious vitality that grows within me – a freedom within which I seek and seek relentlessly until I discover what reveals the radiant Mystery of being.

A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. 

Crystal Racine and I will be exhibiting together the values we share: universality, humanism, ecology and a cosmologic perspective.

The vernissage is Thursday, December 6^th at the Galerie Crystal Racine
1701 Gilford (at Papineau) Montréal, QC  Tel: 514-284-2347.

Chard

www.chardart.com

I am busy creating new works for my exhibit this coming December.

If you’d like to receive an e-mail invitation to the vernissage send me an e-mail: chard@chardart.com

The opening of this duo exhibition is
Thursday, December 6^th at the Galerie Crystal Racine.

The colours and ambience in Cuba were both stimulating and restful.  The next few months I’m painting a new cosmological series for my exhibit in early December with cosmological artiste: Crystal Racine.  I’ll keep you posted with new work as it happens.

Thanks for your welcoming comments on my new web site!

Kind regards,

Chard Chénier

www.chardart.com

    Chardart.com now combines both my artistic and musical talents with new areas of interest, blogging capabilities, online newsletters, as well as audio and video libraries.

Today I uploaded artworks to my Mixed Media Gallery and added music samples to the Music link.  Welcome!

Chard Chénier

www.chardart.com

Chardart.com combines both my artistic and musical talents with new areas of interest, blogging capabilities, online newsletters, as well as audio and video libraries.

Chard Chénier