Yvette St. Amant

Biography

Originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Yvette St. Amant pursues her production of art and photography in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Trained with a Bachelor Degree of Fine Art, majoring in painting and drawing, she takes her knowledge of the basic elements used in fine art and applies them to her photography.

As a painter, many artists have inspired Yvette. Two in particular are abstract artists, Juan Miró, and Fráns Márc. She has always been intrigued by Fráns Márc’s use of bold and rich colors in a non-realistic way, converting beautiful scenery and animal paintings to abstract art. Yvette likes to use a similar technique, creating shapes out of shadows and highlights to maintain an abstract element to most of her work. She feels that her most successful pieces convey a loose and free flowing feeling to the movement of objects and paint on the canvas.

As a photographer and painter, with knowledge in graphic design, Yvette is able to use a technique of combining her photographs with graphics in planning many of her paintings.