Daniel St-Amant
Toronto, Ontario
Booth 300
Main
Daniel's artistry reflects a mastery of combining natural and urban elements, resulting in a distinctive language that is both visually striking and deeply thought-provoking. Hailing from Eastern-townships, Melbourne, Quebec, Daniel's background in Fine Arts is apparent in his work, where he employs a diverse range of mixed media, including mosses, dried flowers, sticks, stones, and crushed cement, to create mesmerizing textures and depth in his pieces. He attributes his visual language from his time at NSCAD studying under Gerald Ferguson a renowned Contemporary Canadian artist. His art speaks to the viewer in a unique dialect, where realistically rendered creatures interact with urban elements, such as graffiti and tire tracks, in a way that captures the uneasy relationship between urbanization and the natural world. His paintings create a new vocabulary of wildlife, not merely depicted, but embodied in a language that is both poetic and poignant. Through his use of color and composition, Daniel transforms his canvases into windows into worlds that are both beautiful and ominous. His works evoke emotions ranging from awe and wonder to a sense of foreboding, as if the creatures he depicts are the last remnants of a world in the process of disappearing. In short, Daniel's art is a masterful testament to the power of visual storytelling, conveying complex ideas and emotions in a language that is universal and timeless.
