Pascale Ouellet "Past Futures"
Pascale Ouellet
“Past Futures”
June 7th 2024 - June 26th 2025
Opening reception on Saturday June 7, 2025
Concourse by elevation GAllery
75 Dyrgas Gate, Three Sisters mountain Village, Canmore AB
2-7 pm
the artist will attend
What to take, and what do we leave behind?
“Often asked to consider our response in the face of crisis, we dig deep to weigh our own values. What do we value enough to ‘run back into the fire’ for?
In the broader context of an environmental world in crisis, what does this phrase mean? Consider the most cliché images of tourist rich places, where all is bright and sunny, and nothing is more or less outstanding. Find that same image in ‘inverse’ form, and all that is left behind is the essence of what makes that placerare, fragile and beautiful.”
~Pascale Ouellet
PAST/FUTURES, a new series of large format paintings by Pascale Ouellet, is a poignant reminder to reflect on personal values in our relationship with nature……how do we celebrate iconic and pristine places without destroying them? How do we distill and celebrate the core beauty in our natural environment while still recognizing constant shocking changes that threaten it’s very existence?
How do we stop loving these places to death?
“Past Futures #7, Three Sisters” 48” x 60” Oil on Canvas 2025 $6855
“Past Futures #15, Aspen” 48” x 60” Oil on Canvas 2025 $6855
“Past Futures #6, Spirit Island” 48” x 84” Oil on Canvas 2025 $8065
“Past Futures #14, Lady Mac With Theo and Jeremy” 36” x 48” Oil on Canvas 2025 $5200
“Past Futures #8, Highway 93N” 56” x 60” Oil on Canvas 2025 $7425
“Past Futures #9, Mount Kidd” 36” x 48” Oil on Aluminum 2025 $5200
“Past Futures #13, Ha Ling” 60” x 48” Oil and Copper Pigmented Paint on Canvas 2025 $6855
“Past Futures #3, Highway 93N” 48” x 72” Oil on Canvas 2025 $7500
“Past Futures #4, Ha Ling” 22” x 11” Oil on Stainless Steel 2025 $950
“Past Futures #10, Yamnuska” 40” x 60”. Oil on Canvas 2025 $6145
“Past Futures #12, Amisk Lake” 40” x 40” Oil on Canvas 2025 $4785
“Past Futures #11, Cascade” 48”Diameter Oil on Wood 2025 $5660
“Past Futures #5, Athabasca Falls” 48” x 72” Oil on Canvas 2025 $7500
“Past Futures #2, Post Office Canmore” 36” x 48” Oil on Aluminum 2025 $5200
Sold. “Past Futures #1, Time Will Tell” 40” x 60” Oil on Canvas. 2025
Pascale Ouellet
Pascale Ouellet is a visual artist based in Canmore, Alberta.
"Although my native province of Quebec has shaped the person I am, my adoptive Alberta has transformed the artist I have become."
During her formative years in the mid 90s, Pascale completed a diploma at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Fine Arts and Communications, attended the Visual Arts Program at the Université du Québec à Montréal and graduated from an intensive Interior Design program at Inter-Dec College in Montreal. After moving to Alberta in 2002, she has been largely self directed in her artistic pursuits – participating in artist-residencies, collaborating with other artists and teaching when time allows.
Since 2004, Pascale has produced 30 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 35 juried group shows across Canada, and been awarded four Public Art Commissions by the Town of Canmore. She has participated in four artistic residencies at The Banff Centre and have been selected as a 2015 artist-in- residence with TRACS program on Fogo Island in Newfoundland.
Pascale Ouellet is represented by 3 galleries in Western Canada and 2 in the USA and her work is in corporate and personal collections across Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Norway, Switzerland, Argentina and the United Kingdom. Her work is also in the permanent collection of the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and at the University of Regina.