Amélie Vallières in her studio featuring “Anne” by Mike Renoir, 2025.

I am a Canadian painter working primarily in oil.

I paint women in moments of transformation. Women who are imperfect, emotional, sovereign, and becoming. I am drawn to what cannot be simplified. Tenderness beside rage. Softness beside power. Beauty beside fracture.

The eyes are always the anchor of my work. Built slowly through layered glazes, they carry the emotional truth of the subject. Around them, the painting loosens. Marks become more instinctive, more raw, sometimes unresolved. This tension reflects lived experience. What we show the world, and what moves beneath the surface.

My work is deeply rooted in lineage, memory, and matriarchy. Repetitive lines and gestures reference ancestry, inherited stories, and the quiet presence of the women who came before us. Painting becomes a way of remembering. A way of carrying something forward.

I create as an act of freedom and self-definition. In a world that continually asks women to shrink, my practice insists on space. On complexity. On presence.

These paintings are not meant to decorate.
They are meant to witness.