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| Feathers filled Elyse De Lafontaine’s life, from childhood to her professional beginnings in millinery... Straw and felt added themselves naturally. But these frequently used materials in the industry quickly pushed her to develop her own raw materials. It is for this purpose that she joined at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles in 1997.
Very beneficial winding point, Elyse De Lafontaine sees millinery as a marvellous school of sculpture because a hat obeys to rigorous laws. Varied and precise techniques, impeccable realization, it is by this trade that she acquired an effective critical point of view as well as a sense of visual and physical balance. Today her work is a fusion of strength and magic, challenge and sensitivity. The quest for aesthetics is ever present in her and she has no other choice but to aim for the essential. Honestly. Completely. Because if the search for emotion can readily dismiss itself from thesis, this desire could not go without hard work. |
As
she acquires new techniques, her maturity as an artist develops.
This, until the day when, at the same moment, concrete innovations
and artistic spirit start to take over. The turn is crucial: from
now on freed from function, Elyse De Lafontaine passes from millinery
to textile sculpture. Since, choosing the proper technique, uniting
the right materials, creating the perfect colours, working the textures
and making the perfect assembly to create a harmonious, rhythmical
and balanced form, here is what her days are woven of.