Blue eyed portrait

An exceptional artist and educator, Suzanne Duquet developed an aesthetic of clarity and structure. Her style evolved from a stylized figuration, marked by deeply introspective portraits, toward a geometric and lyrical abstraction. Her works are distinguished by an economy of means, a frequently nuanced color palette, and a constant search for spatial balance. She mastered the art of simplifying the subject to extract its rhythmic essence, creating compositions where negative space holds as much weight as form.

Her artistic philosophy centered on rigor and the autonomy of the image. For Duquet, painting was not to be a mere copy of reality but an entity organized according to its own plastic laws. Influenced by her stays in Paris and her exchanges with modern movements, she advocated for a reflective approach to creation. Her philosophy rested on the idea that emotion is born from the precision of the relationships between colors and shapes. A central figure in Quebec art education, she influenced generations of students through her intellectual standards and her rejection of the superfluous.