Richard Des Jardins
Studied Fine Arts at Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Quebec and Universite du Quebec in Montreal, Canada. His creative eye led him to a career in visual merchandizing for the home furnishings market and later took him to New York, where he applied his artistic ability to interior design, set design and floral design.
For many years he was a free-lance set stylist and set designer for Modern Bride and Mattel Toys and continues to be an adjunct professor in the Interior Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. A painting course in 2000 and an exhibition of his work in several juried shows has inspired him to include painting in his creative expressions.
His early abstract work has been characterized by geometric shapes and strong colors. Constantly exploring, he incorporated collage elements of wood, gold and silver leaf, printed images and words into the vocabulary of his art. More recently he has explored the juxtaposition of hand made papers and acrylic exploring space through the play of texture and color.
His work has included a series of achromatic collages developed from an idea of creating a sense of space through the use of different papers giving the appearance of shade and shadow. His work presents planes that slowly draw you into the work.
An important aspect of his creative process is finding papers that interface with each other to create this sense of space.
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