Welcome
A family tradition in woodworking
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Gisèlle Paquette has been an art educator and specialist for over 20 years. She is the founder and coordinator of the Dance Festival 'Step Into Motion', an organization that promotes dance in schools and Eastern Ontario. Gisèlle part of the revisions team for the new elementary dance curriculum and was involved in writing documents for Visual Arts and Dance, Drama and Literacy in association with CODE, OSEA, TVO, and the Ministry of Education. In 2014, Paquette was the chair of the CODE conference ' Mirrors in Drama and Dance; A journey to identities' held in October 2014 at the Delta in Ottawa. Currently, she is working for the UCDSB as an art specialist. Paquette has traveled extensively as an artist and specializes in the art of printmaking, specifically woodcuts. In 2015 she started her own company ArtsXtra promoting the arts and education.
Paquette comes from a family that specialized in decoy making. The tradition of working with would originate from her father and grandfather, Robert Paquette and Joseph Paquette.
Robert A. Paquette won many awards and made essential contributions culturally in Canada. His work is private collections in the US and museum collections.
Paquette comes from a family that specialized in decoy making. The tradition of working with would originate from her father and grandfather, Robert Paquette and Joseph Paquette.
Robert A. Paquette won many awards and made essential contributions culturally in Canada. His work is private collections in the US and museum collections.
Recent Works
Recently, Gisèlle traveled Europe working in various art studios in Italy. In 2013, she apprenticed in the Venice Printmaking Studio in Murano. In Venice, Paquette began to work on the theme of tiles.
Impressed with the various textures of the Italian landscape, Gisèlle used this theme to create laced-like impressions of the clay rooftop tiles in her woodcuts. Her recent works are more significant in scale and illustrate geometric shapes and intricate details in patterns. In 2014, she studied at the Ile Bisonte and the Armadillo studio in Florence, where she pursued this theme. In 2015, Genova Paquette focused on aquatic themes.
Impressed with the various textures of the Italian landscape, Gisèlle used this theme to create laced-like impressions of the clay rooftop tiles in her woodcuts. Her recent works are more significant in scale and illustrate geometric shapes and intricate details in patterns. In 2014, she studied at the Ile Bisonte and the Armadillo studio in Florence, where she pursued this theme. In 2015, Genova Paquette focused on aquatic themes.
