CP Artist Bernard Poulin

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For the past 44 years, Bernard Poulin has specialized in creating official and private portraits as well as commissioned exhibitions. A Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists (CIPA) he was its President for the 2003-2005 term. Many of the subjects he has rendered are prominent members of the world’s political, royal, corporate, artistic, sport or religious elite.

Oil and pencil are Bernard’s primary mediums but he also sculpts in bronze, using the lost wax process. A muralist he has created several three-dimensional, mixed-media projects such as those in the lobby of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, the Ottawa Children’s Aid Society and the Solange Karsh Center for Medical Research.

Vice-President Emeritus of the Colored Pencil Society of America, Bernard has collaborated in the creation of more than 10 books dedicated to the process of drawing. His articles and television appearances have been translated into Portuguese and Italian. He is also the author of 9 of his own books. His “The Complete Colored Pencil Book”, was published by FW Publications (North Light division) in1992. Its French translation, (Le crayon de couleur), was published in Paris in 1995. The soft-cover re-issue of the Complete Colored Pencil Book appeared in 2002 and was again re-released in a revised version under the banner of the Classics Series of North Light books in 2011. In December 2010 “Beyond Discouragement – Creativity”, an essay on the effects of the past century on creativity, was published. Both hard-copy and e-book versions are available.

The biography of the artist appears in the Canadian Who’s Who and A Dictionary of Canadian Artists.

Bernard is represented by agents in Bermuda, Paris, Kelowna, Ottawa or through direct contact with the studio.