17–18 October 2026
Open studio days
Atelier PatExpos · Québec
Patricia Forget — painter
Bare-handed
Unique canvases, born of a gesture that never repeats.
Move your hand across the canvas
Nothing here was made to fill a wall. Each piece comes from a precise moment, sometimes clear, sometimes troubled, always necessary. The hand searches, the matter answers, then something rises — a presence, a memory, a breath. This place gathers what never repeats itself: fragments of the living, traces of a gaze, shards of an insistent silence.
Three territories
Each series is a way of inhabiting the world.
01
Presences
The human being in its light, its fragility, its silence.
There are moments when a being does not show itself, it reveals itself. A gesture, a posture, a light resting on a shoulder are enough to tell what words avoid. Here bodies do not pose: they exist, crossed by time, by shadow, by thought. These paintings do not…
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02
Ânimas
The spirit of animals, pure and free.
In the gaze of animals there is something that escapes us. Not an instinct, not a force, but a consciousness that asks for nothing and yet imposes itself. Here the animals are not represented: they emerge, as if they carried with them a piece of the ancient wo…
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03
Breaths
Nature breathes; each canvas is an echo.
There are places where nature does not show itself, it lets itself be guessed. A beat in the air, a movement passing too fast to be named, a light sliding between two forms. Here nothing seeks effect. Everything unfolds like a breath, discreet but whole, cross…
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The Sign, the Hand, the Breath: Birth of an Imprint
A logo is not only a drawing. It says something that words cannot carry for long. Mine was born of the need to leave a simple, almost silent trace that accompanies my paintings without covering them.
Between the Colours and the Days
PatExpos exists because there had to be a place where everything born in the studio could find a direction.
Is a work calling you?
Every painting exists alone, without a copy, born of a single gesture. If a work calls to you, if you wish to visit the studio or simply talk, I will answer with joy.
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