Marcel Favreau

Marcel Favreau was born in Montreal, Canada in 1921. He began his love of the arts through music at the age of fifteen. He became totally enamored with art and took classes in modeling, sculpture, and drawing as a solid basic training which led him to oil painting.

While Marcel sometimes paints still lifes, portraits and genre scenes, he is first and foremost a landscape painter. He finds inspiration in the very heart of nature, amid the whispering secret life of the forest, in the awesome shapes of mountain ridges against an ever-changing sky. For Favreau. inspiration is life itself, moving in a constant flux of colors and textures..

Marcel's paintings are striking in their attention to detail. He claims not to restrict himself to any particular technique and borrows a range of techniques choosing what best suits the scene he wishes to paint. The balance of composition, attention to detail and the flashes of light obtained through a mastery of materials and colors. He is inspired by such great artists as Delacroix, Cezanne, William Brymmer, Robert Pilot, Clance Gagnon and the Italian Dutch schools. Favreau's paintings can be found in numerous private and corporate collections as well as premiere galleries in Canada and the United States.