Old School

Artist: Heidi Taillefer Title: Old School Size 8" x 10"  Oil on Panel I was born in 1970 and have lived and worked in Montreal, Quebec, all my life. As a child, I attended weekly art classes at the La Palette art school in Beaconsfield, Quebec, focusing on watercolour and various mediums. By the early ’90s, I began working as a commercial illustrator in tandem with my fine art projects. Still, by 2004 I devoted my full time to fine art, exhibiting internationally in both gallery and museum venues. My paintings often depict subjects comprised of seemingly incongruous objects characterized as symbolic, which form a complex composite of elements and add a contemporary spin to often classical icons. My work highlights our growing hybridization with technology, in which I depict “machine-like” constructions. My approach is to infuse primordial aspects of the human condition into these hybridized humans and animals. It seeks to remind the viewer of the inescapable nature of our being despite