Born in Montreal, Jean Gareau has studied with sculptor Louis     Archambault and painter Jacques de Tonnancour.  More recently, he has worked with David Gillanders at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and in the studio of Pierre Lafleur, painter and muralist.

After a career as architect, he has resumed painting which he had temporally abandoned. Now an autonomous artist, he works in his own studio.

Observing trees with eyes and ears, he aims at rendering the life of those solitary, yet colourful and moving living friends he comes across in Quebec and abroad in France, Italy, Spain and Cuba. 

His landscapes evoke the Laurentian hills and woods, Ile d’Orleans fields, and parks around Montreal, Florence and Paris,

His favourite mediums include dry and oil pastel, charcoal and   acrylic paint.

Jean Gareau is a member of the Pastel Society of Eastern Canada (www.pastelsec.com).

Contact: jjgareau@yahoo.ca

It is by traveling the lesser known side roads of Quebec that the artist has been able to sketch the woods, meadows and solitary trees which would otherwise go unnoticed.