Thompson Landry Gallery
Upcoming About us About us Contemporary
Exhibitions & Special Events Venue / Rental Venue / Rental Great Masters
Contact / Links Contact / Links

Dominic Besner

For several years, Besner has been wholly dedicated to painting, searching for the aesthetics to shape his world vision. His colorful and moving paintings are inspired by his studies in architecture, his artistic mentors and by the people he encountered in the side streets and alleys of Montreal. One easily imagines how his clairvoyant and playful observations of the world give way to his paintings. Besner is profoundly concerned by the body’s degradation, by the aspects of the body that call upon reflection and observation. He creates characters that keep a trace of the past, sometimes seeming like a shadow of them selves, facing their destiny without fear. This fabulous jungle was inspired by characters from Otto Dix and Nicolas de Crécy, a comic book artist. It is an environment that is future looking, somewhat like human beings; torn but crippled with hope…

Besner was born in North Lancaster, Ontario, in 1965 and completed a bachelor's degree in architecture at the University of Montreal in 1992. His training as an architect, which he undertook at Algonquin College in Ottawa a few years before his bachelor’s, gave him the opportunity to reflect upon the city and its components: the primarily human dimension, the tradition which any city plan must follow and the elements that are necessary to survive in a cultural environment. His university years provided him with a critical mind allowing him to define a living environment centered on human beings, taking into account the past, present and future. His studies most of all lead him to painting, his true passion, and to a career, which transformed his formal training into a pictorial esthetic of figures and space, reflected through the half realist, half fictional gaze of the artist.

To create his paintings, Besner uses a mixed technique on canvas; he uses mostly oil and its rich color pallet, as well as acrylic paint, structural mortar, china marker and aerosol paint. Along with this material, he uses a finger application technique and scrapes the surface of the canvas.

Low Point on the Horizon of Mother Midnight
Mixed Media on canvas
84" X 48"
     
SOLD
La singulière de loi
Mixed Media on canvas
48" X 24"
Sold
Les hôtes bienveillantes
Mixed Media on canvas
70" X 70"
Sold
Le roman-fauve
Mixed Media on canvas
48" X 48"
Sold
Turbo
Mixed Media on canvas
72" X 120"
Sold
Dynamo
Mixed Media on canvas
96" X 156"
Sold
À demi-jour l'ombre du Rondache
Mixed Media on canvas
68" X 84"
Sold
Le Pelliculeur du Temps
Mixed Media on canvas
30" X 60"
Sold
La bête constellé
Mixed Media on canvas
24" X 24"
Sold
Le cri des vallées dormantes
Mixed Media on canvas
72" X 36"
Sold

La pentomime des on-dit
Mixed Media
48" X 24"
Sold

L'ovation-musette des parlementées
Mixed Media
48" X 84"
Sold
No Man Can Escape the Gaze of Houka
Mixed Media
48" X 72"
Sold
Grangeli
Mixed Media on canvas
36" X 72"
Sold
Les belettes de l'écurie
Mixed Media on canvas
24" X 24"
Sold
Le jockey du forêt-noire
Mixed Media on canvas
36" X 36"
Sold
Le sceau de baltha
Mixed Media on canvas
24" X 24"
Sold
Les eaux d’argent
Mixed Media on canvas
60" X 84"
Sold
Le Ferré - Boat
Mixed Media on canvas
48" X 72"
Sold
El cantor
Mixed Media on canvas
48" X 24"
Sold
La musette des automats
Mixed Media on canvas
36" X 48"
Sold
The Arrival of Mordomus
Mixed media on canvas
60" x 60"
Sold
Pudibonderie d'une maniérée
Mixed Media on canvas
36" X 36"
Sold
Les hetaïres du muflier
Mixed Media on canvas
30" X 30"
Sold
Le messager sans parole
Mixed Media
60" X 60"
Sold
Le renifleur de cade
Mixed Media
72" X 36"
Sold
L'éveil de la nouvelle erre
Mixed Media
72" X 36"
Sold
La manège de Puy
Mixed media on canvas
72" x 36"
Sold
La despote glockenspiel
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 48"
Sold
À la cadence sous
les chapiteaux des evzones

Mixed Media
36" X 24"
Sold
Le visionnaire-prophétesse
Mixed Media
48" X 30"
Sold
Au-delà des tertres,
les orphites règnent

Mixed Media
60" x 60"
Sold
La cavalerie des leudes
Mixed Media
48" X 84"
Sold
La dérive de l'inlandsis
Mixed Media
48" X 30"
Sold
Les murmures de la chambre
des on-dit

Mixed Media
48" X 48"
Sold
La gloire des doctes
Mixed Media
72" X 40"

Sold
La mascaronne de gris règne
Mixed Media
36" X 36"
Sold
Le lanternier du quadrige attelé
Mixed Media
48" X 30"
Sold
Les glorias de la salonnarde
Mixed Media
30" X 30"
Sold
Sous les macaques, la pause d'une capucine
Mixed Media
30" X 30"
Sold
XVIIe faubourg clos des factions
Mixed Media
48" X 24"
Sold
Au gré des vents, la dérive de mars
Mixed Media
30" X 30"
Sold
Le kaléidoscopé
Mixed Media
60" X 69"
Sold
Basse plaine d'un horsain-major
Mixed Media
30" X 24"
Sold
L'appel aux aurores du lare
Mixed Media
48" X 24"
Sold
Le dételé d'orient
Mixed Media
36" X 36"
Sold
Au pas de fado, je m’ennivre
Mixed Media
36" X 36"
Sold
L'étrange fiction du minot
Mixed Media
24" X 24"
Sold
Le Spationaute
Mixed Media on canvas
48" X 30"
Sold
Odes d'automne, la toilette de novembre
Mixed Media
60" X 48"
Sold
La citadelle de rothart
Mixed Media
96" X 60"
Sold
Deça et delà, j'erre
Mixed Media
30" X 30"
Sold
Portail des huitains
Mixed Media
72" X 36"
Sold

Operette
Mixed Media
48" X 24"
Sold

La levée de l'ouest
Mixed Media
30" X 24"
Sold

Petites cippes des hannetons
Mixed Media
24" X 30"
Sold

La dérive des atteles
Mixed Media
36" X 60"
Sold

Le projeteur condamné de nuit
Mixed Media
30" X 30"
Sold
Le relayeur subordonné
Mixed Media
60" X 96"
Sold
Les douairières aux psaumes
Mixed Media
36" X 60"
Sold
L'euphorie des dahus
Mixed Media
40" X 40"
Sold

Le porteur de l'épitre
Mixed Media
24" X 30"
Sold

Horse-circuit
Mixed Media on canvas
36" X 48"
Sold
Chapeliere du Cardinaliat
Mixed Media on canvas
60" X 36"
Sold
Le tableau de vico
Mixed Media on canvas
30" X 30"
Sold
Une automate-cyclette
Mixed Media on canvas
48" X 24"
Sold
     

 

© Thompson Landry Gallery