I am continually exploring realities and dimensions in my work, both in art and poetry, re-inventing techniques that allow the flow of material from the unconscious to influence the direction the works will take. My work is inspired by my rich life, my dreams and my relationship with the natural world. I have been influenced and owe thanks to many.
"Following the instinctual, natural current, allowing the unconscious, the material and medium to determine direction, I create a space that allows the expansion of “canvas” as arena for the work of the transcendent function in transformation work. My art and writing provide me with the means to work out my individuation as an artist. I have been painting and writing poetry for more than 40 years"
Paulette C Turcotte
Art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
~ Carl Jung
“O Poets! Shamans of the word! When will you recover the trance-like rhythms, the subliminal imagery, the haunting sense of possession, the powerful inflection and enunciation to effect the vision? Shamanize! Shamanize!” ~William Everson, Birth of a Poet
Paulette Turcotte is a poet and artist living on Vancouver Island. Her work has been published in numerous journals and magazines, in print and online. She is co-founder of Split Quotation Press and founder of cdris/PRIMITIVA Press. Paulette was one of the founders and organizers of the Pacific Festival of the Book. She is presently working on a poetry manuscript and a memoir.
Her work is eclectic, expressionistic/modern-primitive with Jungian influences and is dream oriented, spiritual/mystical, shamanistic and eco-spiritual.
Paulette has exhibited her art extensively in Toronto, Hull, Ottawa, Peterborough and in Curve Lake. In 1981 her art was discovered by a patron of the arts who purchased more than 200 pieces Her paintings and drawings can be found in private collections in Britain, Germany, USA and Canada. Paulette taught painting in various private locations as well as Algonquin College in Pembroke, and as a supply teacher at Opeongo High.