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Lucie Quintal is a French-Canadian contemporary hand hooking and textile artist based in Point La Nim, New Brunswick, where she lives with her husband, painter Bernard Quintal. Lucie was born in Montreal, Québec, spent her teen years in Toronto, then attended the University of Ottawa, obtaining a B.A. in French Literature and a B.Ed. in 1980. She is a member of several associations including the SDA (Surface Design Association), CARFAC (Canadian Artist Representation, Le front des artistes canadiens) AAAPNB (Association acadienne des artistes professionnel (le,s) du Nouveau-Brunswick), FAN (Fibre Arts Network), and TIGHR (The International Guild of Hand Hooking Rug Makers). Lucie worked as a primary school teacher before settling in New Brunswick. During
her career, she taught sewing and quilting to both children and adults. Lucie learned to sew from her mother who made Lucie’s clothes growing up. The influence of her family inspired a lifelong passion for working with textiles. Lucie uses many techniques but none fuel her artistic spirit more than rug hooking.
Since 2015, Lucie has dedicated her time to contemporary hand hooking, taking numerous workshops with other rug hooking and fibre artists in pursuit of her own emerging artistic practice. She was especially inspired by the “off the track of traditional” hand hooking style of Deanne Fitzpatrick in Amherst, Nova Scotia. With Deanne’s mentorship and encouragement, Lucie fine-tuned and experimented with her hand hooking while creating her own designs and re-using fabrics and fibres. Lucie says it well: “When I started to work with hand hooking my artistic skills and experiences
converged into an art form I have now made my own. My creative voice soars in a method of hooking that is both non-traditional and inventive.” (Quintal, My Story: La vie en loop) In October and November of 2021, Lucie’s recent body of work, Pillow Talk, was
exhibited in a group show titled In the Loop/Beyond the Hoop, at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre in St. Andrews, NB. This abstract series illustrates and rememorializes her fond memories of her experience as an artist in residence at Sunbury Shores in 2019. She and her husband, Bernard, participated together in the Studio by the Sea Artist in Residence program and stayed at the Windsor House of Saint Andrews. During the residency, she met other artists with whom she conversed about processes
and ideas that supported her work. At the Windsor House, she and her husband shared meals with the hosts and other guests where she gained a sense of close-knit community. They shared stories - sometimes intimate - that gave her a glimpse into their lives, all amidst the hum of the atmosphere of a historic building filled with hidden treasures (those who know the Windsor House, know what we mean). Special among these treasures for Lucie were a variety of hand-made pillowcases. A seamstress at heart, she admired the design of the cloth in the same breath as her refreshing experience of sociality in the residency. The beauty of the pillowcases, the people she met, and the stories that were shared, all
launched her Pillow Talk series. In the large pieces of the series, Lucie incorporated the inspired look from the design of the hand-sewn pillowcases from the Windsor House, exuding opulent softness and ‘give’.
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