Of french and metis aboriginal descent, Michel Luc Bellemare was born in Sudbury, Ontario. Michel has been painting since he was young. He studied cultural studies at Trent university with a specialization in avantgarde art. He later went on to study communication at the masters level at Carleton university in Ottawa, again with an emphasis on avantgarde art and modern art theory. Finally, he completed a doctorate degree in philosophy with an emphasis on visual arts communication. His artwork can be found in the national gallery of canada, the national library of canada and the art gallery of ontario. His art deals with color and what exactly can color do on canvas. His artwork is highly dense and textured via a supra-impasto application of paint. His art has been know to comprise 100 to 150 tubes of paint. The paint is manipulated to give out a visual effect that connects with the viewer viscerally. His art is about unconscious communication, an attempt to connect with the viewer at a base level, i.e. the grounding elements of the human relationship. In sum, his art is truly jewelry for your walls, with the images capacity to change with the passing of time and lighting, these are multi-dimensional paintings capable of modifying themselves to give off different hues and tones of the same image.
In addition to his art, Michel published three books: "The Machine" in 2005, "Nomologism: (The Advent of Post-Post-Modernism )" in 2006 and "Color-Realism: The Essence of Color and Reality" in 2009. Color-Realism's thesis is about the notion that "Color is as real as reality gets. Color is the basic language of human emtions and the concepts that comprise our intellect. We, as humans, cannot think outside the color spectrum. we, as humans, cannot think of a square without color, color is that basic characteristic that allows us to categorize and define, for example a square as a square, and thus to ultimately think anything requires first and foremost color". His books can be ordered through Blacksatin Publications and are also available for consultation at the library of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
Michel now resides in Ottawa and where he devotes his entire time to painting and writing. Some of his work can be found at the Snapdragon Gallery in the Glebe, Ottawa.