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Paul Vienneau

Visual Arts - photographer/visual artist

Mailing Address:

22 Creekside Drive
Stratford
Prince Edward Island C1B 2W5

367-7845 (Home)
940-5205 (Work)

Email: paul@paulvienneau.com

Web: www.paulvienneau.com

An artist of Queens County.

Biography

With the experience and mindset of an improvising musician, Paul pursues a more personal style of photography. Sometimes the unexpected leads to an artistic breakthrough and “play” or improvising with long exposures (for example) results in work that is (in the words of Tony Sweet, www.tonysweet.com), “Fresh, innovative, and clever. He has a great sense for colour and form, and an off-centre sense of the abstract”.

Pursuing a career in music, Paul moved to Toronto in 1990. A year later, while cycling with his older brother he was struck and severely injured by a tractor trailer . This resulted in a 2 year hospital stay, 30+ operations and the need for a wheelchair. Paul bought a camera in the mid-90’s to document visits home to Nova Scotia. He moved home in 2001 and in 2002 married his college sweetheart, Pam Beck. Instead of documenting the landscape, he found himself wanting to interpret it.

Paul has presented solo shows at such Halifax venues as the Economy Shoe Shop and the Velvet Olive, and has had framed prints for sale at Neville's, in Bishop's Landing on the Halifax waterfront.

In August 2005 he had a solo show of his photographs titled ‘The Interior Landscape’ at ViewPoint in Halifax.