Bio

Marcel Jomphe studied graphic arts and computer science and worked as a scientific illustrator specializing in botany for a museum and two research institutes. In the 2000s, he became a web designer and then a web development team supervisor.

He retired in 2012, and as a freelance artist, developed his personal artistic approach through drawing and photography. His work has been shown in over twenty group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and several European countries. His artistic work has won international recognition and several awards.

Artist Statement

For over 5 decades, he has meticulously drawn, photographed and intuitively, rather than systematically, observed the world of organic structures. The vital force and unique intelligence of this world, which unfolds in infinite forms, never ceases to fascinate him. These forms are reinvented in his imagination in works of poetic beauty or as a window onto a metaphysical realm.

In the context of nature's great creative workshop, drawing and photography are for him the ideal tools for capturing and reinterpreting the works of nature. For him, it's not a question of mechanically reproducing what nature produces. Rather, nature is associated with his creative process, in which he privileges aesthetic validity.

Some of these works are astonishing because they show us the world in a way we can all recognize. While others are incredible because they capture the world as we've never seen it before. His work tends to focus more and more on the second category. In so doing, he creates a distinct style and identity that drives him to work assiduously for hours on end on detailed, elaborate drawings or series of photographs. Finally, his works of art are an intimate interface between the real and the imaginary.