“I was the little annoying child who roamed around, but sometimes I sat on a rock to watch them paint. It was wonderful,” remembers Louis Tremblay. The imprint left by the artist, was not without marking the child forever. It was in
this idyllic atmosphere that Louis Tremblay grew up. His grandfather, Henri Tremblay, was the carpenter of the famous painter Clarence Gagnon when he was in Baie-Saint-Paul. Several renowned artists have visited the family home: Jean-Paul Lemieux, René Richard, Albert Rousseau and many more. In 1967 Louis Tremblay left school, when he was only 17, to devote himself solely
to painting. At that time, the painter René Richard made him come to his house, to tell him to avoid the Beaux-Arts. “They are going to scrap you. School for a painter, it's outside”, remember Louis Tremblay. Did Louis Tremblay put into practice what the master told him? One thing is sure; Tremblay is the wildest painter of his generation. Later he will say: “I always wanted to create my style, my art, and express my artistic vision in my own way”.
