Cecile Comblen

ASSETS Visual artist & art teacher Bilingual English-French, basics in Spanish Three artist sons SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection) 2006 Espace Odyssée, Maison de la Culture of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, ¿Emancipation¿, paintings. 2003 UNAM, Hull, Quebec, Canada, ¿Enchantment overflowing sadness¿, paintings RBTT (Bank), St. Vincent, ¿Flowing through¿, mixed media works 2000 Galerie Art-Terre, Brussels, Belgium, ¿Mutations¿ 1998-1999 Casino of Hull, Quebec, Canada, ¿Interior Signs¿ 1998 J.-Cl.Bergeron Gallery, Ottawa, Canada, ¿Voyage au pays des rêves¿ 1995 Calligrammes Gallery, Ottawa, Canada, ¿Terre de rêve¿ Galerie Art-Terre, Brussels, Belgium, paintings 1994 World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, ¿À corps joie¿ 1992 Théâtre de l¿Ile, Hull, Quebec, Canada, ¿Émergences¿, drawings and paintings The Grenadine House, St.Vincent, paintings, 2009 GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection) 2005 Galerie Gora, Montreal, Canada, paintings 2005 Etra Fine Art, Miami, paintings, Feb.05 2004 Kingstown, St. Vincent ¿Creative Explosion¿ Carnival Art II, Trinidad, mixed media. 2003 5th Caribbean & Central American Biennale, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, mixed media Carifesta, Suriname, mixed media works Gallery 1.2.3.4, Trinidad, ¿Women in Art¿ 1999-2000 Alliance Francaise, Kingstown, SVG, ¿Convergences¿ 2000 Centre culturel, Wegimont, Belgium, paintings International Art Festival, Chili, ¿Homage to Peoples Of First Nations in New Millennium¿ Calligrammes Gallery, Ottawa, Canada, ¿Five Women, Five artists, Five Belgians¿ 1995 Galerie Juvenal, Huy, Belgium, paintings 1986 ¿A Source of Art¿, Ottawa, first exhibition of watercolours First Biennale of Contemporary Art, Chapingo, Mexico, "Arte con raiz en la tierra", paintings, 2008; TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2003 ¿ 2004 Art classes at Windsor Primary School, St.Vincent 2002 Art camp with Youlou Foundation, SVG 2002-2003 Children¿s Art classes, Alliance francaise, SVG 1999-2000 Art classes at Calliaqua Anglican School, SVG 1993-1998 Creative workshops for adults, Aylmer, Quebec Drawing & painting classes, city of Aylmer, Quebec DIPLOMAS 1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honour¿s Degree, University of Ottawa (Ontario), Canada 1973 Bachelor of Education, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada MURALS 2003 Colonial Architecture, Kingstown, St. Vincent Mural in Buccament, private home, St. Vincent, ¿Seascape¿ 2000 Calliaqua Anglican School, St. Vincent, ¿Creatures of the sea¿ COLLECTIONS Her paintings are in international, public and private collections such as in Canada: Loto-Quebec, Hull, Quebec, Art-Image, Gatineau, Quebec, Children¿s Hospital, Ottawa, St. Paul¿s University, Ottawa; in Belgium: Canadian Embassy, Brussels; Eastern Caribbean Islands: St. Vincent, Trinidad, Barbados, etc. OTHER ACTIVITIES 2003 Curator for St. Vincent artists participating to 5th Biennale. In Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. COMMUCITY DEVELOPMENT 2003 ¿ 2004 Founder of ¿St. Vincent & the Grenadines Visual Arts Society¿ & Co-hosting first group exhibition AFFILIATIONS Professional member of RAAV, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Regroupement des artistes en arts visuals) Member of www.artengine.ca PUBLICATIONS Cariforum Nr 9, Nov. 2002, pp. 88-89, Cécile Comblen: « Ce que m¿inspire St.-Vincent »