Lise Rivet

(Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Biography

Lise Rivet (b. Sturgeon Falls, 1975) is an artist who has travelled to many destinations in Europe, South America and Asia absorbing everything that the land and people can offer to her personal development. She studied Economics and foreign languages at the University of Guelph and holds a teaching degree from the University of Ottawa. Lawyer by day and artist by night, she also holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in International Law from the University of Ottawa and the University of Kent respectively. Since 2007, Lise returned to formal painting classes at the Ottawa School of Art with the esteemed Professor Yves Larocque as a way to return to the arts and to release the tensions that often come with lawyering. She currently works at Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa trying to make a positive difference in the world.

Statement

Nature is Art, my Art is Nature. Inspired by landscapes, the serenity of water, the clouds in the sky, and fields full of grass, and particularly the landscapes of Northern Ontario and Northern Europe, my paintings bathe in the abstract. Blending hints of Jean-Paul Lemieux, Paul-Émile Borduas, and other great Canadian landscape painters before me, one can discern the calm elements of nature (which reflect the artist’s upbringing and travels) and the linear (which reflects the logical thought process) and that dominate the paintings.