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Bigoudi

Bigoudi is the nom de plume of the young artist Pascale Ouellet. Raised and trained in Quebec, she lives and paints full time in the small community of Canmore, Alberta since 2002. Living in the Rocky Mountains, she enjoys the outdoors, as well as the accessibility of the nearby ranches and farms where she finds most of her inspiration for her paintings.
With a controversial Public Art Commission for the Town of Canmore, five solo exhibitions, many juried group exhibitions and three galleries representing her work, Bigoudi has been a prolific artist achieving commercial success with her contemporary, large-scale, figure and animal paintings.

Bigoudi works exclusively with encaustic (molten wax) and uses her own photographs as the starting point for her work. She is a juried member of the Society of Canadian Artists, the Federation of Canadian Artists and she has been showing her work as part of juried exhibitions from Nova Scotia to British Columbia. She was also selected as one of the Top 20 Alberta Artists for 2009 by the Calgary Heritage Corporation.

"Encaustic is the process of painting with hot, liquid wax. This technique is exhilarating for an impatient painter like me. Over the years, it has totally changed my way of seeing and thinking. Like I shape the wax, the wax has shaped me to be the artist I am today. It has a mind of its own and I like that daily duel in the studio," she says.

Visit Bigoudi's website at www.bigoudi.ca

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