LAJEUNESSE, Michel

Michel Lajeunesse studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in the early sixties, later becoming interested in calligraphy and graphic design. He returned to sculpture a few years later and settled in Mont Tremblant. He has participated in several symposiums held in the Laurentian region, such as Les Sculptures de Saint-Sauveur (2004- 2006), the Symposium international de sculpture de Saint-Faustin Lac Carré (2010) and the Symposium des arts du Domaine Saint-Bernard, where he received First Prize (2012). Lajeunesse transforms recovered stumps and driftwood, as well as gnarled and battered pieces of aged wood, into bestiary forms and figures that bear the scars of the material. All of his work is a tribute to the nature of wood – its scent, colour, knots and twisted forms.