Laureen Marchand lives in in the middle of the wild Canadian Grasslands, in Val Marie, Saskatchewan, Canada, just north of the Montana border at the gateway to Grasslands National Park. Here she makes oil paintings that shine light on the human heart and on the beauty, loss, and joy that every heart encounters. These artworks invite us to see not just the painted object, but ourselves in it.
Laureen Marchand has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally in more than 30 solo and two-person exhibitions as well as over 50 group shows. Her paintings have been recognized by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Canada Council, are held in many public and private collections, and have been represented in exhibition catalogues and reviewed in newspapers and magazines. Laureen Marchand has been artist in residence at the Leighton Colony/Banff Centre for the Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois, among others. She has lived and painted in Canada and Ireland.
For most of twenty years, Laureen Marchand’s imagery was narrative and figurative. Then during the production of a major touring exhibition, the figures left her work. The space that remained came to be inhabited by objects and scenes which reflect the human presence rather than recreating it.
Laureen Marchand has contributed widely to Canada’s artistic community as teacher, mentor, writer, gallery owner, curator, and cultural facilitator. She holds the Canadian Artists Representation “Tony” Award for service to the visual arts in Saskatchewan and the Centennial Leadership Award for Service to the Province of Saskatchewan. She is currently represented by Grasslands Gallery Online and Nouveau Gallery, Regina, SK.