Marcelle Ferron
Marcelle Ferron was a Quebec-born painter and stained glass maker, and a dominant figure in contemporary art in Quebec and Canada. Frequent stays in a dull, dark hospital room due to a childhood illness left her with a passion for light and colour that is evident in her abstract painting and modern stained glass creations.
Born in Louiseville, Quebec, in 1924, she was a small dynamic woman who created huge abstract works. She was drawn into the richness of the paint, which she applied in broad spatula and trowel strokes, expressing pure colour and movement. In 1946, painter Paul-Émile Borduas invited her to join Les Automatistes, a group of Montreal artists who were influenced by Surrealism and were experimenting with a new and more spontaneous style of painting.
After a number of years in Paris, she returned to Québec in the 1960s and began to explore modern stained glass concepts. Her experiments resulted in a new construction technique that allowed her to build walls of light with invisible joints. One of her first glasswork murals was created for the Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal and can still be viewed today. Marcelle Ferron died in 2001.
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