Helene Goulet
Hélène Goulet's pictorial style is distinguished by a poetic abstraction marked by the exploration of contrasts between silence and movement, emptiness and matter. Her compositions are often structured in juxtapositions of colored planes, evoking interior landscapes or fragments of reinvented nature. Color plays a central role: deep blues, vibrant reds, and luminous whites intertwine in a lyrical, almost musical harmony. Each color seems to contain its own vibration, evoking water, ice, rock, or the sky, without ever explicitly designating them.
The artist composes his canvases as one constructs a visual poem: the forms are refined, reduced to the essentials, but they retain a strong expressiveness. A simple chair abandoned in a white field or a marine horizon line becomes the scene of a meditation on absence, memory, or the passage of time. The lines, sometimes clear, sometimes blurred, separate or connect the different areas of the canvas, creating a visual rhythm that guides the gaze without imposing it.
Goulet's work is part of a contemplative approach: it invites slowness, listening to silence, and reading signs in space. It is not a descriptive realism, but rather an allusive art, which suggests more than it shows. The memory of the landscape, the echo of places, the imprint of the living can be guessed in each colored surface. The result is a sensitive painting, inhabited by a discreet but persistent presence, where each fragment of color becomes a mental territory, a threshold between the visible and the invisible.

Philippe Manning, Sorel-Tracy Info
Why paint?
"Painting to escape the things that suck us in. Beings, things, so many desires, renunciations and confrontations with oneself.
Paint to avoid being swallowed up like a giant tornado.
Painting to find balance and maintain it.
Paint so as not to sink.
Finally, paint to see better"
Hélène Goulet November 1996

