Cloutier was born in St-Hyacinthe, Québec in 1957. She has always had an affinity for visual arts which motivated her to pursue her studies in Fine Art. As an art teacher at the high school level, she continued to pursue her research of the geometrical shape in relation to space. Kandinsky, Riopelle and Paul Klee were great influences in her development as an accomplished artist.

Cloutier’s work transports us to a magical world of endless possibilities where shapes and color come together in a masterful way. The attention to detail, combined with the freedom of movement is very pleasant to the eye. Abstract images, shapes and colours come together on the canvas to create a painting that is intriguing, suggestive, convivial and sometimes disconcerting. Sometimes music intervenes in her creations, not in the shape of an instrument nor a clearly identified note but by the rhythm and cadence that often is released from her painting. The subjects are as varied as the eyes that look at the painting. Discipline, energy and bursting creativity make Cloutier into a passionate contemporary abstract painter, always in search of new pictorial challenges.

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