Serge Brunoni is a Quebec painter, born in Ligny-en-Barrois, France, on September 3, 1938 (died February 19, 2020). He arrived in Quebec in August 1963 and settled in Trois-Rivières. This great painter is recognized for his joie de vivre, his availability and his respect for his art lovers and his generosity through his humanitarian commitment.
Self-taught, he became a professional painter in 1972. In his works, his themes focus on man in isolation from nature (through his hunting, fishing, trapping scenes, his seascapes, etc.), the city (through street scenes, walks, his urban landscapes of Montreal, Old Quebec and Ursulines Street in Trois-Rivières which show people engaged in activities) and the train which makes the link between man's need to isolate himself in nature and are experienced in his urban environment. "We always take a train to somewhere..." "What I try to do is evoke an emotion fixed in time. In a way, my paintings are like trains that take people on a journey. I'm just selling them a ticket." Serge Brunoni
A painter inspired by Quebec
This great explorer takes us on a journey throughout Quebec, both to the most enchanting places of the wilderness, the wide open spaces (canoeing, sledding, camping, fishermen, trappers and hunters mostly accompanied by their companion dogs, etc.), and to the intimacy of the streets of its cities or by magically transporting us to different seasons as did René Richard, Miyuki Tanobe, Paul Tex Lecor and many other renowned artists such as the Group of Seven. "Nature is there to complement humans. I paint people doing their activities. I love to communicate by staging them." Serge Brunoni
Serge Brunoni, with the help of his paintings, makes us relive his moments of "joie de vivre" that we have experienced at different times in our lives. His urban landscapes, under the snow or the rain and his characters wearing tuques, scarves often accompanied by their dog make us rediscover every corner of his main streets (rue Buade, du Trésor, Ste-Anne, St-Louis, St-Jean, St-Paul, de la Montagne, Sherbrooke, Marquette, Ste-Catherine, Berri, Notre-Dame, Norbert, etc.), buildings and public squares (Old Quebec, Old Montreal, Place d'Armes, Porte-St-Jean, Porte St-Louis, etc.) which have made Quebec famous. He is also known for his still lifes. Serge Brunoni is a painter with multicolored acrylics. His mastery of rich colors, the harmony of all his colors always finds a balance with white, shades of gray, blue, yellow, green, red, brown, black which carries us into his marvelous universe which is divided between abstraction and figurative.
“To paint! It’s to measure yourself against yourself… And to measure yourself against yourself is the most relentless of confrontations!”
“Nature is there to complement humans. I paint people doing their activities. I love to communicate by staging them.”
“To paint is to chase the impossible.”
"I believe in communication," he says. "Being with the world is a joy in itself, and that's enough for me. My paintings humbly represent the adventure of life."
"The truth of Art, if there is one, can only be approached through spontaneity and creative imagination, combined with solid modesty. I want to show who I am, how I am, through a work of art whose meaning I will share with its spectators, an operation that I hope will be beneficial, insofar as, each time we communicate with someone, it is for mutual enrichment: old law of solitude!" Serge Brunoni
A Quebec painter, Serge Brunoni's works can be found in several public and private collections in Canada, the United States, Asia and Europe.
