Corrid'ART
Collaborative and educational project with the students from L'Orée des Bois school.
DETAILS
Title: Ensemble les yeux tournés vers l’avenir
Mediums: Mixed Media
Size: 20 in x 27.5 in
Year: 2020
This painting, titled “Ensemble les yeux tournés vers l’avenir” (“Together, with our eyes towards future”, represents the Orée Des Bois school, in Cantley (Quebec, Canada). Its source of inspiration is the joy that the children feel when they learn, among other things, music, reading, sports, solidarity, brotherhood, mutual assistance and respect. That’s what we tried to demonstrate by the climbing of this mature tree constituting the central element, by the activities illustrated in the cubes (peripheral zones) and by the links between the kids.
The school in a tree, built by the children, shows how much creativity, tenacity, persistence, and the surpassing of themselves are important for them.
Each cube sheds light on how much they feel good in the different learning zones. The pencils nailed on the tree trunk serve as indicator arrows towards the various activity zones, but are also useful rungs to climb up the tree of education. Moreover, they represent the primary school since they in primary colors.
This mixed-media artwork was created with acrylic, ink and glued patches; it incorporates a few pictures of the children who participated in its creation and a few self-portraits that they made themselves, quite a challenge that they took up with success!
The school and the students offered me quite an honour and made me happy by adopting my characteristic style of painting to create a painting “in the style of Sylvie Bergeron.”
The following students of the École de L’Orée des bois participated in the realization of this artwork: Lili Marx, Malyka Cyr-Parizeau, Florence Roy, James Olsen, Kaia Allaire, Mélika Dunn-Legros, Olivier Villeneuve and Flavie Dorval.
I want to deeply thank the principal, Marie Line Lafleur, and the vice-principal, Nancy Vallerand, for their confidence and the Des Draveurs Schoolboard who promote, by their ideas, the visual arts and other arts.
