Born in 1949 the youngest of a Montreal family of seven children, Gérard Dansereau is initiated to the arts by his brother Robert, whose drawings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts are posted on their bedroom door.
Equipped with bachelor’s degrees in design and in teaching, Dansereau begins teaching at the graphic arts department of Collège Ahuntsic in 1979, a job he leaves in 1996 to work full-time as an artist. Initially known for his activities in graphic communications and as an illustrator, for which he receives many awards, he spends a great deal of time exploring other disciplines: serigraphy, photography, interior design, along with personal research which result in a yearly production of approximately one hundred paintings.
With time, the painter’s style evolves from non figurative work to images in which the tone is resolutely reminiscent of comic strips, where domestic animals and objects inevitably trigger the viewer’s imagination into inventing a back story to the painting...
