About Artiste Kapelier

Artist Kapelier

First artist to obtain a license to perform in the Montreal metro network to become a world-famous and recognized painter. Kapelier is a pewter medalist from l'Académie Arts, Sciences et Lettes de Paris. Browse his website, relax, have fun, and if you're interested, we ship worldwide.
Biography
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Kathleen Pelletier - Kapelier

Biography

For as long as I can remember, I felt like I always had something to say and to give. Perhaps it’s my great need for love or attention that drew my destiny, who knows! But as soon as I could, I acted. But as soon as it was possible for me to do so, I acted. First through music by writing songs and composing on my guitar. I was the first musician to get a license from the City of Montreal to sing in the subway in 1980.

Then came the drawing, I drew all the time even if it was not beautiful according to my classmates. I was drawn to the arts regardless of its form. I did theatre, dance and at the time I even started writing a book, which I lost when the person who corrected it for me died. I am a nature lover, an all or nothing. Then comes painting at the age of 20. My passion, my means of expression, my reason for living, my identity, she and I are one. I am from the bottom of my soul an artist.

This means of expression allows me to touch you and give you love, which comes back to me when you take home one of my paintings. Thank you for allowing me to make you happy.

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My Technique

In 1975, at the age of twenty, I began to paint in oil and by this self-taught path I pursued my artistic process. My preferred medium for many years remains acrylic. I occasionally paint with watercolor. I have been making a living from my art since 1980.

I have developed in more than 40 years of practice an ability to play with colors to deposit on my brush the right shade, the right nuance sought and I have developed a very refined and demanding technique consisting in applying very thin superimposed layers of painting to achieve today a level of light, precision and authenticity of colors and subjects, which make each painting a unique work of art.

Kapelier has works all over the world: in Europe, in Japan, in Jamaica, in the United States, in the Canadian provinces and, of course and above all, here in Quebec my land of blood, my land of heart, my land of love.

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My Family

Born on December 30th, 1955, in Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada, her parents Cyrille Pelletier and Madeleine Lavoie of Chicoutimi adopt her at six weeks old, making Kathleen their only child. A beloved daughter, she loses her mother on February 14th, 1970 of breast cancer. With her father, being weakened by a heart condition at around the same time, Kathleen is to be taken care of by her aunts for a year. Saddened and destabilized by all these events, she finds herself in a foster home at 15. Her father remarries with Dorette Létourneau. And they go on to have two children: Anne-France and Yves-Marc, Kathleen’s half-brother and half-sister. She marries at 17 to Gérard Gilbert and gives birth to her first child at 18: Marjorie. Divorced at 20, Kathleen discovers the arts: music and painting.

She started painting at 20 but chose to paint for life at 25. Bohemian from 1980 to 1985, she signs her works with her name: Kathleen Pelletier. She married Jean-Claude Langlois with whom she had four cherished children: Marie-Claude, Pierre-Alexis, Jean-Gabriel and Marie-Soleil. She lives from her art, painting, and after her separation in 1997, the year of reunion with her biological mother, Fernande Dubois, she discovers four half-brothers and a half-sister: Nicole, Richard, Normand, Mario and Jacques. She will be an animal painter for 5 years, then a realistic painter with the majestic landscapes of her adopted region since 1985: Charlevoix.

Since 1985 she signs her works with her pseudonym, her label: Kapelier. She lives and raises her children from her painting. She found love again in 2004 and married Daniel Laforest at Les Éboulements Québec on October 15, 2005. Since then, she has moved between realistic, figurative, contemporary, mystical and fantastic painting, with her favorite medium: acrylic and mixed media.

She is a grandmother at 38: Mariannick to Marjorie. Since then, three other treasures have been added: Raphaëlle to Marjorie and Jacob and Félix to Marie-Claude.

We are almost 4000 paintings later.
  • Exhibition and sale of my recent works in workshop
  • From 2009 to …, Aux Éboulements Charlevoix and Montreal, Qc
  • From 1998 to 2007, to Aux Éboulements, Charlevoix, Qc
  • From 1993 to 1997 in St-Joseph de la Rive, Charlevoix, Qc
  • From 1986 to 1992 in Pointe-Aux-Pic, Charlevoix, Qc

  • Galerie Guylaine Fournier Baie-Saint-Paul, since 2009

  • Galerie Les Règles de l’Art, Saint-Sauveur, 2009-2010

  • Arts Kapelier GP, Baie Saint-Paul, 2007-2008

  • BEAUCHAMPS gallery, Baie-Saint-Paul, 2003

  • Art Center Baie-Saint-Paul, Baie-Saint-Paul, 2002

  • Gallery IDÉES, IMAGES et MONAIES Quebec, 1999-2000

  • Gallery Jaquar, Aylmer 1986 and 1987 and Ottawa in 1992

  • Symposium de l’espoir, Montréal, Québec, August 2019

  • Galerie Arte Borgo, Rome, Italie, June 2019

  • Exposium de peinture de St-Hyacinthe, April 2019, 2018 and 2017,2014

  • Exposium d’Art de Drummondville, Québec, March 2019

  • Salon national de Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, December ( 2018, 2017 2016 and 2015)

  • Galerie LiVart, Montréal, Québec, oct./nov. 2017

  • Galerie Têt de l’Art, Forbach, France, September/October 2017

  • Rêves d’automne, Baie St-Paul, Qc Oct. 2017

  • Artistes du Monde, Cannes, France September 2016

  • Pavillon des Arts, Salon de l’habitation de Montréal, October 2015

  • Happening de peinture de Tadoussac, Québec, Qc September. 2015 and 2016

  • Exposition à Alt Art et Design, Montréal, Qc Nov. 2014

  • Symposium de peinture, Galeries de la Capitale, Québec Oct. 2014

  • Rêves d’automne, Baie St-Paul, Qc Oct. 2014

  • Happening de peinture de Tadoussac, Québec, Qc September. 2014

  • Symposium Plaines couleurs, Québec, Qc August 2014

  • Exposition Art Design, in group, Oct. 2013

  • Rêves d’automne, Baie St-Paul, Qc Oct, 2013

  • Happening de peinture de Tadoussac, Québec, Qc September. 2013

  • Symposium Arts & Jardins, Boucherville, July. 2013

  • Symposium Plaines couleurs, Québec, Qc August 2013

  • Symposium Plaines couleurs, Québec, Qc 2012

  • Exposition de peinture, Galeries St-Hyacinthe, Qc 2010

  • Symposium Art et Passion, Ste-Julie, Qc 2007-2008

  • Symposium d’Art de Drummondville, 1999 to 2007

  • Symposium d’Art du Complexe Desjardins, Montréal, 2004

  • Galerie d’Art du Fargy, Québec 1997

  • Centre de Créativité de Charlevoix, Pointe-au-Pic, 1995

  • Musée Laure Conan, La Malbaie 1988 and 1989

  • Presbytère de Pointe–Claire, Montréal, 1986

  • Le monde de Kapelier, Espace Mushagalusa, Montréal, April-May 2016

  • Exposition Solo Art Design , Montréal, Qc nov. 2013

  • Exposition À l’espace Adagio , Delta, Montréal, Qc december 2012 to january 2013

  • Exposition Au Quai des Brumes, Montréal november 2010

  • Exposition à la Galerie Les règles de l’art, St-Sauveur, Qc november 2009

  • Exposition Grande Place du Complexe Desjardins de Montréal, may et october 2006

  • Exposition Entrée principale, Tour de la Bourse de Montréal, may 2006

  • Vernissages privés, Région de Montréal, from 2002 to 2005

  • Auberge Félix-Antoine, St-Joseph-de-la-rive, 2004

  • Centre d’art Kapelier-Lantardi, La Malbaie, from 1989 to 1997

  • Art Battle

Participation to the competition February 2016 Montreal

  • Virus pictorial improvisation (VIP)

Captain of team “Black” 2014-21o5 of the season, “Red moutones” 2013-21o4 of the season and the team “The Red Tide” from the 2012-2013 season

The Virus Pictorial Improvisation is a cultural non-profit organization. National League pictorial improvisation of Montreal is a group of professional painters of 4 teams that apply the principles of improvisation. The pictorial creation in a monthly event called: The Virus of the V.I.P. Pictorial Improvisation.

The atmosphere of these evenings is backed by the house band “Elektropaint” who improvises on various topics chosen by the master of ceremonies who orchestrates 7 improvisations per game. A closing auction each game. Spectators determine the winners by voting and improvisations can purchase original paintings created live.

  • Painting workshops and gallery openings every year since 1986, Charlevoix and Montreal, except 2007 and 2008

  • Private College St-Alphonse, St-Tite-des-Caps, QC 2002-2004

  • Art School Kapelier-LANTARDI, Pointe-Au-Pic, 1989 to 1997

  • TIN Medal of Arts, Sciences et Lettre Academy of Paris

  • Illustration of April 2000 Calendar “Order of Agricultural Merit in 2000” the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, 2000;

  • Cover illustration of the 97-98 Excel Guide – “Introduction to statistical data processing”, Gaëtan Morin, editor, 1997

  • Illustration of complete calendar for Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, 1992

  • Several newspaper articles in the weekly “PLEIN JOUR SUR CHARLEVOIX” from 1989 to 1997

  • Several programs for community television CVM TV-Cap à l’Aigle from 1989 to 1997