It’s a return to basics, a rediscovery of the essential that awakens our wonder for the natural world and timeless flora.

Inspired by the alternative chemical processes of photography, Catherine Tremblay transforms flowers and leaves into botanical prints, capturing their pigments and details on a variety of papers. Like herbariums and botanical treatises, she collects and catalogs plant traces where each specimen reveals its ephemeral beauty and singular essence, an invisible wonder.

Artist biography

After living in Montréal for several years, Catherine Tremblay recently returned to her native Saguenay. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts from UQÀM, a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University and is currently completing a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design at UQÀM. She has taught visual arts, graphic design and photography at Cégeps André-Laurendeau and Saint-Jérôme, and now at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.

Actively involved in her community, she has been production director for Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie since 2015; then co-president of the board of L’imprimerie, centre d’artistes, from 2016 to 2021, following the mutualization of Cabinet, espace de production photographique, an organization she co-founded in 2012. She has carried out creative residencies and exhibitions in France, Switzerland, Africa, New York and various regions of Québec.

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