Pascal Foisy

Artist represented by L'Original.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Pascal Foisy is a painter and draughtsman who has worked in many artistic disciplines, including murals, visual art and illustration. His aesthetic language is an amalgam of all kinds of inspiration. Playing with the codes of the visual world, from abstract to figurative, from experimental to affirmative, from luminous to obscure, he navigates through different universes. In 2017, he graduated from Concordia University (BFA Painting and Drawing), where he won the Concordia Golf Classic Scholarship Award upon entering in 2013. In 2018, during his second participation in Mtl en Arts, he won the Festival's Grand Prize. Pascal continues to pursue his career with the same curiosity, in a quest for narrative freedom. Since 2020, his pictorial language has taken a turn. In the years leading up to the pandemic, he created narrative works on the themes of family, innocence and peer support, contrasting on the same canvas with themes of conflict, abuse - aggression and harassment, the difficulties of existence and destitution. These works were realistic in style, yet free in their visual interpretation, leaving plenty of room for human realities. Since the onset of the pandemic, a period that brought its share of misfortune and bad news, he has turned to simplified visuals featuring anthropomorphic fantasy animals, laughing flowers and welcoming rainbows. Without completely abandoning the realism to which he devotes himself in certain contexts - for loved ones, on commission or at public events - he has turned to nature-based metaphor, all with the intention of making people smile, feel good, feel good about themselves.