ACRYLIC ON CANVAS – TITLED “LE VOYAGE DU BLÉ” SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.

SIZE: 35″ X 46″

Baucan, Francis Breton (1968 – )

Francis Breton was born in Montreal in 1968. He is the son of Quebec artist Yvon Breton. A poet of images, music, and words,
Self-taught, Baucan left college to dedicate himself to his art. In his twenties, he founded with Luc Courchesne the group of artists “Le Cénacle de l’Étendard”, who edit and publish poetry books. He wrote and published with them two books as well as participated in many collective works with other poets that have also been published. Inbetween poetry readings, he recorded an album under an independent label and produced a short-cut movie “Le chat a fait de moi un oiseau” with Éric Francoeur as leading man and Jean Cotonnec as cameraman.

Ever eager for adventures, he explored the Baffin Island and hitchhiked across Canada. At 24 years old, during his first trip to Europe, his paintings were exhibited at an art gallery in Pont-Aven, Brittany (where Gauguin once lived). Over the years, his paintings were also exhibited in various galleries in Europe, the U.S. and Canada

At 26 years old, he invented and constructed a 35mm antique-looking camera, made out of paper. After having sold his invention to the Wrebbit Corporation, he travelled for three years, from the Czech Republic to North Africa.

In 2014, after living and painting during more than 10 years in Thailand, he moved to China and the adventure continues.