PATRICIA BELLEROSE
Patricia Bellerose is mostly a self-taught painter. She acquired her painting skills through practice and reading. Her influences are the Russian Impressionist masters, American and Canadian such as the Group of Seven. The plein air painting has been crucial in her learning. It allows for further research of colors, the simplification of the composition and timeliness.
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Biography
Patricia Bellerose was born in 1980 in Joliette, Quebec. Her family always encouraged her to draw, do watercolors and other painting mediums. She graduated in graphic design in 2000 and work in that field for a very short period. In 2006 she started acrylic painting and then move to oil painting in 2008. Her first gallery representation started in 2011. Her artwork has been rewarded in numerous international painting contests. Lately she received an award of excellence for the 2014 OPA eastern regional Exhibition and 2014, 3rd Place Overall award April/May PleinAir Salon competition. She is a member of Oil painter of America (OPA) and Portrait Society of America (PSA).
Her work is now represented in many galleries throughout Canada and United States.
