F.A.Q.

I completed these paintings in the space of a very few days… My new schedule for studio hours seems to work…!

I am preparing for te annual Wine & Art event given in the Malton Hotel in Killarney, which will be at the end of November…

Details to come!

“L’Action de Grâce” Like we call it at home… While our american neighbors and the majority of Canada held the tradition of turkey dinner, in my family it took a quite different twist…

As far as I can remember, in my family “L’Action de Grâce” was celebrated with… a picnic! During a hunting afternoon one day my dad discovered this little opening in the woods, next to a little sugar-shack, and he made a little fire for himself and thought it would be a nice spot for all the family to gather… Shortly after, Mum, Little me and my (then little) brothers were accompanying him for this autumnal picnic.

The night before, Dad would prepare a jar of home-made beans and some freshly baked bread, and the next morning, dressed in wellies and wooly jumpers,we would drive the 1/2h journey to our little sacred place, gather some branches for the fire and logs to sit on and heat up the beans in a pan over the fire. After that we would have some donuts with a warm cup of tea from the thermost.. mmmmh…

Of course we would make sure then that the fire was out and we would put the logs into place and ensure that our visit passed incognito, we would all go for a little forest walk then and look at mushrooms and other wanders…On the way back then we would stop at farm and get our pumpkins for Halloween and some lovely juicy apples.

This tradition is still being kept to this day and TODAY, the little clearing in the woods will be alive with the chats and laughter of Mum, Dad, my brothers Maxime and Louis and their respective wife and girlfriend, Sophie and Claire. Next year there will be one more as Maxime and Sophie are expecting a little boy…

I’m homesick…! But I am thankful to be living in such a beautiful and magical country that is Ireland.

What are you thankful for?

Of course I am aware that my name isn’t the most easy to remember… Having a very french name has the advantage of sounding different and unusual, but at the same time can be a little… confusing! Although I have the movie “Amélie” to thank for, (one of my all times favorites.. not just for the title..!)since a lot of people would know about it and recognise the spelling..

To counter this problem I had the good idea to buy the domain name “emilygallery.com” as well as “ameliegallery”, which leads to the same website. Over my years living here and appearing once in a while in local papers and other media, I’ve had my name mispelled and twisted countless of times, and here are a few “variants”!:

real name:
Amélie Gagné
(pronouced like “family” without the “f” and “gang-ye”)

variants:

Ameile Ganga
Amelia
Amalie
Annalie
Emilia
Emmalie

And my favorite:

Emily Gaggle!

I sold 4 paintings very recently and I am delighted…! Two sold in Gallery Zozimus and the other two from the Killarney Art Gallery… Happy Days…!

In order of appearance:

“Umbrellas” went to the US

“Primrose Evening” was sold in Dublin, and so was

“Early Morning“,

“Apple Sunset” was sold to a “nice” lady from Nice!