François Boutet (XX) - $$$

Boutet is a Quebecois artist creating digital works on canvas.

Since the mid-1990s, he has been creating, inventing, and animating characters for television and the Web, books and magazines, for large international companies such as Universal Music, Hallmark, Colgate, Scholastic, the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Civilisation Museums, etc. His characters become figurines, plush toys, jewelry. His logos give a strong image to the companies that entrust him with the challenge of identifying them clearly.

Boutet has always been impressed and inspired by Picasso, Haring, and Miró, by the great traditional masters and by eclectic modern artists. “If Picasso had had a computer, imagine what he would have created!”

Boutet masters the art of illustration, 3D drawing, video animation, and painting. Today, he applies all his experience as a digital art creator in a style that is entirely unique and personal.

Boutet’s works are forward-looking while remaining classic subjects. The impressive grace of his characters stems from his vision, his design, his choice of materials and their arrangement, all fused into a spatial lightness that he builds piece by piece.

With such a vision, his experience, and all these learnings, it is not surprising that Boutet is creating a new form of art, digital sculpture!