MARIE-DANIELLE LEBLANC

Marie-Danielle Leblanc is a Montreal-based artist who has been living and working in the city since 1990. Her artistic practices is deeply influenced by her travels, with sensations, memories, and personal experiences serving as the foundation of her work. Throughout her career, she has participated in over thirty solo exhibitions, developing a distinctive artistic language that celebrates the beauty of the world around her. Leblanc primarily creates encaustic work, a technique that combines heated beeswax, Demar resin, and pigments. She applied and manipulates the molten was using a blowtorch, sometimes guiding the material and at other times allowing it to flow freely across the surface. Often incorporating cherry wood into her pieces, she creates layered compositions that celebrate landscapes, water, the sky, and life itself. This rich textures and luminous surfaces produced by encaustic giver her artworks a sense of depth and movement, evoking memories, tranquility, and wonder. Her work embodies both the fleeting natures of experience and the lasting impressions that places and moments leave behind.