About
Alison Hamier, artist
Alison Hamier is an inveterate traveller. A wily and gnostic worker of surfaces, both exotic and local, she brings this special knowledge to every painting she executes. She translates light and colour into palimpsests that instruct and delight the eye, nourish the spirit.
She uses oil paint almost as a sculptural medium, in a material daubing that accentuates her ethereal surfaces. She builds up rich excrescences that heighten her atmospheric fields, reminding us of the materiality of pigment and the sensuousness of things seen. But she is reductive, if not parsimonious, in so doing. She never broaches on excess. The taches are tasty souvenirs of paint’s physicality, served up in small and ecstatic doses.
She has a minimal structural sensibility that reminds one of the spinal columns in Quebec’s celebrated sorcerer of light Jean McEwen’s paintings.
My artistic approach and inspiration is found in the beauty of the landscapes and nature. The colors and the matter used in these paintings help reflect the emotions we feel when we are face to face with the greatness of the world.
Using oil as a medium is the perfect way for me to convey my vision of the beauty that surrounds me to the canvas. Therefor the colors become more than color, they transcend into an idea and a perception of a scenery and once the colors and the textures collide together we can see everything becoming one. I feel that sometimes it is like if I am sculpting the colors, fetching the image into the matter. - Alison
Born in Montreal in 1973, from a French father and a Czech mother, Alison Hamier did her studies at FACE school in Montreal in an environment conducive to the development of artistic creativity. Alison Hamier also had the opportunity to cultivate her skills under the influence of her uncle and her aunt, Milan and Eva Lapka, two well-known painters and ceramists from Montreal.
During these years studying in Quebec city, Alison Hamier participated in many artistic events such as snow sculpting during the Quebec Winter Carnival, snow sculpting for the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec, live painting and group exhibitions.
Always surrounded by current artists, Alison Hamier was able to offer unique workshops to her students where some of the artists would participate. Artists such as Jérôme Fortin, Josée Martel, Pascaline Knight, Sophie Jodoin and Patsy VanRoost.
She stopped teaching since 2013 to devote herself to her family and her art.
Alison Hamier has always been very involved in her community especially within her children’s school, where she volunteered her time to create art projects. She has also participated in several important charitable events with inspiring and unifying work.
Book
Obscure lumière : l'oeuvre d'Alison Hamier = Liminal Sojourns : the art of Alison Hamier
Solo Exhibition
Atmosphere during the opening
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