30” x 20” Oil on Panel

“Of all the myriad subjects with which I become entranced enough to explore as paintings it is the timeless subject of the female nude which holds the greatest capacity for internal and external constraints. There are many lines of thought with which to rebel against such constraints, just as there are many lines of thought to validate and impose restrictions on men painting women. As an artist I have chosen a more ambiguous space; a release from grasping at vindication on either side of a complex question and a have instead found quiet acceptance to ethically follow my own aesthetic truth.

These paintings are a distillation of my figurative practice into its purest form. The colours, brushwork, and compositions are in the service of expressing the direct charge of the embodied feminine. They are paintings about beauty, they are paintings about pleasure.”

~Daniel Audet

Daniel Audet - Bio

Daniel Audet (b.1982 Canada) is an oil painter interested in the use of colour and image content as a way of cultivating an emotional reaction in the viewer.

Through the use of impressionist painting techniques to express form and light he produces paintings of deep introspection and haunting imagery.

The paintings hold a space of contemplation; a vessel for the viewers’ mind to explore an unsolvable realm.

Daniel received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in painting, from the University of Lethbridge and further technical instruction at the New York Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been exhibited and collected throughout North America, including the BMO Centre public art collection in Calgary.

In 2019 Daniel returned to live in the rural Alberta landscape of his youth; a river valley of badlands, hoodoos, and the nightly call of the coyote. It is a sacred place of expansive sky and rich colour where time is felt in the rhythm of the seasons.