MICHEL SOUCY (Canada, Schefferville, 1963 -)

A Canadian scenic and visual artist who graduated from Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design in London, Michel Soucy has worked in the world of the arts for about twenty years.

His pictorial approach is both assertive and elusive. The canvases include elements that can be clearly seen and others that are only suggested. The viewer’s glance is caught by a promise of things that may or may not be. The ethereal nature of the objects gazed upon - frail and delicately painted - takes on a seemingly solid nature.

In Michel Soucy’s works, the parts of the body - chests, breasts and faces - swirl about. His works offer a wealth of visual suggestions, which allow us to develop our own emotional insights. The imagination is given space to roam

My portraits are eyeless.
It is a need, a vital impulse, a self-evidence.
They speak of unknowns and the well-known,
Of languid women and drowsing beauties
An instant, for life.