The Festival International Montréal en Arts ( FIMA ) holds it's annual art exhibit in the Village on the July 4th Weekend. Artists were spread out in kiosks covering over a kilometer of St Catherine Street from Berri to Papineau. There was a spectacular range of painters, illustrators, photographers, jewellery makers, glassworkers, ceramists, digital artists, sculptors and serigraphs. Here are some of my favourite artists with a sample of their works. I hope to return to see the exhibition next year and hope that they could expand to other locations around the city in the future.


Artist Achilles Kouamé is winner of FIMA's 2009 Raymond Furlotte Visual Arts award.
Many of his works depict village scenes from his native Cote D'Ivoire. Some of his more recent
works depicts typical Montreal street scenes - of people waiting for the bus or Metro.





Pascal Normand of Rustique Design uses photography and digital manipulation to create unique urban images rendered in rustic color palettes. Note the added silhouettes in the images suggests an element of narrative or mystery.



Tick Tock Tom and two of his wonderous metal sculptures
 

Marie-Claude Vezeau tells the stories of her life and family through her paintings.
 

 

Denial Art pokes fun at modern advertising, politics, and media messages that society is often “in denial” about. DENIAL is known for his prolific guerrilla-marketing campaign, which takes public aim at ideas involving social-justice, pop-culture, mass-media, and “New World Order” conspiracy theories.


Melany Fay's works depict fantasy, passion and love and loss.
 

Neil Sternberg portrays a typical Montreal symbol.
 

Painter Marie-Claude Marquis reveals an alter-ego in this self-portrait.


Bruno Lavoie of Atelier l'Atelier Koko-Moko is dedicated to making great art from recycled materials.


"This is absurd.......i love absurdity....and perception......absurd perceptions....
I love having no sense but pretending that i do......."
- Patrick on Conseil des Artistes Quebecois


Tanya Torossian with one of her sultry creations.


Virginie Cabana and her creative universe
 

Jo-Annie Larue


Danyelle Bachand's larger-than-life portraits show the range of human emotions.


Jeanette Obbink's paintings depict the pristine landscape of the Great Lakes.


Judy Sherman, artist, illustrator and master of the visual pun.
 

Josiane Vedrine


 

Artist Véronique PERRON with her dog and among many other wonderful and more whimsical creatures.


 

Daniel Erban finds inspiration from dark corners of the unconscious mind for his visually captivating work.


Yvon Goulet's large and loud acrylic paintings are painted on recycled Bloc Québécois elections signs.


Maguy Carpentier was the Grand Prize winner of the show. She mixes photos, ink and paint in her works that draw on reminiscences and family history.


Pierre Laurier Lamarche whose works speak of time, of waiting, the hope of survival, all accompanied by blue bowls of water.



Richard Ancheta with of few of his less domestic cats.


Patricia Bellerose cannot pass up a good scene.


Simon Dutil-Paquette "Goûter avec l'esprit - Acrylic, cheese and resin on wood"





Anthony Livet, aka Tone is essentially urban. As an architect and graphic designer, Tone's works are at the crossroads of many artistic disciplines. In his creations, the colour is either pure and vivid, or completely absent, but the canvas is always fully covered. Lines, curves, typography, calligraphy and collages are intimately mixed so that the observer has to examine the work carefully in order to understand its secrets and hideaways once the first visual emotion is passed.


Fima, 2009

Fima, 2011

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