Marie Christine Delanee

Marie Christine Delanee

Marie-Christine Delanee was born in France where she lived her first 21 years the shore of Normandie in the Baie of Mont St Michel. Even though she is not very old yet, she cannot remember when she started to draw and paint, she probably always did.

She describes herself more as a self-taught artist because she got her formal education (B.F.A. and B.A.E.) well after she had been painting and drawing for a living for 7 years on the North Shore of the St Lawrence River in Quebec where she was also fishing and living without running water or electricity in the small camp she built with fire wood and the boyfriend of that time.

Then, tired of struggling for a living she decided to go to university and learn as many art techniques as she could. That did not really happen; instead she learned to develop her personality and a technique of her own.

After her B.F.A. she wondered what she could do to earn money and continue her art. A degree in education seemed logical and it happened that she did like teaching art.

Unfortunately, she realized teaching in elementary and high schools in Nova Scotia did not give any time for anything else. For a few years she struggled again to keep painting while earning a living, then she got hired by the Department of Education to design the art program for the Francophone schools. She finally had her week-ends to paint.

Since then, she takes a year off every 3 years for traveling and painting. When she is teaching, she and her students inspire each other by doing art everyday and with every academic subject.

If sometimes her work seems to belong to different artists it is because she gets bored easily doing the same thing and she likes to experiment with different mediums and different techniques in bright colors. Her inspiration comes from her love of nature.