Renée Duval lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, she graduated with Honors from Emily Carr College of Art (1986) and completed an M.F.A. at Concordia University in Montreal. (1991) Her work has been exhibited across Canada and she has participated in exhibitions in the United States, France and Mexico. Her work can be found in numerous public as well as private collections and she has received several grants from both the Canada Council for the Arts as well as the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec. Renée's work was included in the canadian painting survey publications Carte Blanche Vol 2-Painting (2008) and The RBC Painting Competition:10 years (2008). A catalogue of her work entitled Gods and Monsters was published in 2014. Renee spent 24 years as the Director of Exhibitions at the McClure Gallery in Montreal. She has also spent over 30 years teaching and mentoring Painting.

Renée Duval's work is represented in Calgary, AB by the Herringer Kiss Gallery and in Victoria, B.C. by the Gallery Merrick

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My paintings reflect my lifelong preoccupation with the natural world—they are visualized expressions of my ideas, feelings and perceptions about that world and my connection to it.
What has been persistent in all my work, is my endeavour to impart a sense of presence and personification/embodiment to my depictions of various kinds of botanical growth (trees, vines, flowers).
In my recent paintings, whilst I continue to work with images of plant life, I'm also allowing the language of painting to play a larger role. My process has become more intuitive and spontaneous, and the resulting work is less prescriptive, so that colour, light and form contribute more to the final results.
While my process has changed from my previous work, my goals remain much the same as before—to try and articulate the experience of a life lived amongst other living things.