Interview – Monique D Proulx

Visual Art Journal

I was born in Quebec in the 1950s, in the heart of a French-Canadian village, and spent my early childhood in a house across from a church, between a convent and a parish center. A sheltered environment, where I began to learn the piano at an early age, and to look at French and Belgian comics, which my mother was fond of and whose aesthetic I have always loved, and retained. I then moved to Quebec City, where I studied music at university, and then to Montreal, where I worked as a copywriter in communications and publishing. For several years now, I have settled in the countryside, on the banks of the Richelieu River, in an old henhouse that serves as a refuge for composing, painting and writing. My art in three words? Colorful, poetic, exuberant…