Lise Cree, a professional translator born in Montreal, has always demonstrated a keen interest in all forms of art, particularly in the visual arts. It was by chance that, in1987, she found herself in a drawing class where she quickly decided to trade pencils and pens for brushes and colours. For the next three years she attended oil painting classes at Atelier Jacques Lajeunesse in Montreal. It was the beginning of a great adventure which led her to explore the various medias through art schools and workshops, notably at the Visual Art Centre of Westmount.

Her strong desire to paint took her later to Mexico, where she spent five months attending classes at the Bellas Artes of San Miguel de Allende. During this period, where she could explore freely, she started working with acrylics. Trained according to the oil painting techniques of the Great Masters, she learned to adapt these classic techniques to acrylics, which she now favours.

Her paintings, mainly figurative and realistic, reflect her love for life. The world of children and flowers, in fact, all things that touch and move her, reach her canvas. Her vision being contemporary, she particularly enjoys painting giant flowers, imbuing them with poetry and lyrism. For this visual artist, flowers reveal interior dreams and are the perfume of life.

Lise Cree's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout Quebec, France, Tunisia and the U.S.A. Her first solo show took place in 1999, followed by a second one in 2001 where about thirty colourful paintings, mainly of flowers, brought sunshine to Galerie Richelieu in Montreal.

In November 2003 and 2004 she took part in the 20th and 21st Annual Exhibitions of the Cercle des Artistes Peintres et Sculpteurs du Québec, where she won an Outstanding Award and a Bronze Medal respectively for her works titled " Elina " and " Ballerina ".

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