Nocturne

About Nocturne

This contemporary abstract painting by Paul Fournier captures the night sky.

With a career spanning more than six decades, Paul Fournier has established himself as one of Canada’s most significant abstract artists. His lyrical expressive form is perennially inspired by nature and is a result of his habit of ‘drawing with a paintbrush.’ A masterful colorist, Fournier tends to favour the brightly colored Fauvist palette of French artists like Matisse. This large painting signals a departure from hot colors and imagines the night sky in appropriately darker cooler hues of deep blues, and black illuminated by bright white and yellow.
It can be displayed either horizontally or vertically.

”My painting is just a world that I jump into.” Paul Fournier

“Fournier continues to explore and extend the limits of his own imagery, his own handwriting, his own ability to use colour and paint. His new pictures are personal and expressive: lyrical, generous and decorative in the best, Matissean, sense of the word.” Karen Wilkin, NY Curator, Art Critic

Paul Fournier was born during the Great Depression in Simcoe, Ontario. He first studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1959 and went on to study printmaking at McMaster University in Hamilton in 1967. Fournier also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from McMaster in 1996 where he’d also been the artist in residence. Fournier has had solo exhibitions in several Canadian cities and in the U.S. His work is held in private collections in North and South America, and Europe. Public collections include the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Sculpture Garden in Washington and the Tate Museum in London.