Biography
Contemporary Visual Artist. Born in Montreal, Quebec, and currently lives in Orillia, Ontario. Fortin's career spans over 30 years designing and creating for a wide range of nationally and internationally recognized corporations, magazines and publishers. His work has been featured in Catapult Magazine, American Illustration and Communication Arts. Fortin's worked in the video game and theme park industry. His work included mural creation for Universal Studios to being commissioned by Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, BusinessWeek and Time magazine... He has also created designs of sculptures and props for the Beijing Cube Water Park. The water park won a WWA Industry Innovation Award. Pierre also collaborated in the design of the Dollywood Mystery Mine, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, which won the Theme Park Insider Award for Best New Attraction of the Year .
Artist Statement
My work has always assembled many characteristics of visionary and conceptual realism capturing the occurrence of emotional commotion in human life. I find myself immersed in the realm of consciousness and mystique, which to me are one and the same. In much the same way as meditation and prayer eventually lead to psychological and spiritual experiences that transform one's self into new enigmatic paradox.
My inspirations are first and foremost everything I see, sense and experience. Instinctive mind impression of the senses, Fantastic Realism, Modernist, Pop-Culture and Film Noir are amongst some of my inspirations. I never limit myself to mimicking reality but will interpret the emotional and psychological mental condition of individuals in society. By interpreting the emotional inner psyche in a fitting representation, I’m able to cross the hypocritical disguise that all humans so religiously protect and hide behind making my work honest and closer to reality.
Contemporary Visual Artist. Born in Montreal, Quebec, and currently lives in Orillia, Ontario. Fortin's career spans over 30 years designing and creating for a wide range of nationally and internationally recognized corporations, magazines and publishers. His work has been featured in Catapult Magazine, American Illustration and Communication Arts. Fortin's worked in the video game and theme park industry. His work included mural creation for Universal Studios to being commissioned by Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, BusinessWeek and Time magazine... He has also created designs of sculptures and props for the Beijing Cube Water Park. The water park won a WWA Industry Innovation Award. Pierre also collaborated in the design of the Dollywood Mystery Mine, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, which won the Theme Park Insider Award for Best New Attraction of the Year .
Artist Statement
My work has always assembled many characteristics of visionary and conceptual realism capturing the occurrence of emotional commotion in human life. I find myself immersed in the realm of consciousness and mystique, which to me are one and the same. In much the same way as meditation and prayer eventually lead to psychological and spiritual experiences that transform one's self into new enigmatic paradox.
My inspirations are first and foremost everything I see, sense and experience. Instinctive mind impression of the senses, Fantastic Realism, Modernist, Pop-Culture and Film Noir are amongst some of my inspirations. I never limit myself to mimicking reality but will interpret the emotional and psychological mental condition of individuals in society. By interpreting the emotional inner psyche in a fitting representation, I’m able to cross the hypocritical disguise that all humans so religiously protect and hide behind making my work honest and closer to reality.