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Stories Beyond Words

Original paintings by Ottawa-based artist MD Antoine, exploring narrative, memory, perception, and human experience.

mdantoine/collection the way we moved/En route

The Artist

MD Antoine is an Ottawa contemporary artist who creates paintings that explore the relationship between composition and narrative.

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Whether working through abstraction, portraiture, or simplified form, the work investigates how placement, colour, rhythm, balance, and negative space shape emotional experience.

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Each painting develops through observation, experimentation, and response, allowing unexpected relationships to emerge until the composition begins to reveal its own story.

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mdantoine/collection quietus/Cicada Season

Collections

mdantoine/collection between forms/The Depths

Between Forms

A body of work where abstraction meets interruption, with fracture and surface as the subject. Each work stands on its own while contributing to a larger body of work, inviting viewers to find their own meaning in the spaces between form, gesture, and perception.

mdantoine/collection quietus/The Winged

Quietus

A nine-piece collection built through portraiture, abstraction, and atmosphere. Quietus moves through inheritance, interior memory, and being.

mdantoine/collection the way we moved/Entre Nous

The Way We Moved

A six-piece collection built through figure, gesture, and composition. The works draw from childhood scenes and everyday rituals, unfolding through distance, movement, and relational space.

mdantoine/collection spectrum/Defiance

Spectrum

A seven-piece portrait series exploring the breadth of human emotion through bold, comic-inspired portraiture. Each work captures a distinct emotional state, transforming expressive color, posture, and facial expression into a visual language of feeling.

Portfolio

This portfolio brings together completed works and ongoing series that document the evolution of my practice.

 

Rather than pursuing a single visual style, each collection explores a distinct question through its own language of composition, colour, and form. Together, these bodies of work reflect an ongoing interest in narrative, perception, and the ways paintings create meaning beyond words.

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