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- Born in
Trois-Rivières in 1954, Raymond Laperrière will follow
his family to Sherbrooke in 1968
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Incomplete studies of graphic art at Sherbrooke College
between 1973 to 1975
- Turning
his back on the art world, Mr. Laperrière will rather embrace
music for many years to come; a decision that will take him to
Quebec city to perform with a local rock band, in 1979
- Off to
Montréal in 1983 where he will try going back to school to get
his collegial degree in “fashion merchandising”, at
LaSalle College
- The
multinational PolyGram records of Canada hires Mr.
Laperrière in 1990 as a merchandising representative;
unfortunately, a major company reorganisation will cot him his
job in July of 1993
- In 1995,
HMV Canada commands three small murals for stores
locations in Côte-Vertu (Montréal), Trois-Rivières and
Sherbrooke
- From
1996 until 1997, fundraiser for the
Orford Art Center Festival
- In May
of 1998, Côte-Vertu Shopping Mall commands a 17’x36’
mural for their store
- 2001,
first attempt at oil painting
- In the
Spring of 2002, Laperrière joins a local collective hired to
paint a series of amazing historical murals based on the “trompe-l’oeil”
technique, in downtown Sherbrooke
- In
October of 2003, after completing the third mural, he will leave
the collective to undergo his own path, painting landscape
inspired bye the beautiful scenes of the Eastern Townships
- In April
of 2004, the painter will bring his first six paintings to the
Art-Inter gallery; those being Mr. Laperrière’s very first steps
into the official art circuit
- A solo
presentation of seventeen canvas at the chic Antiquarius Café
in downtown Sherbrooke, turned out to be the very first exhibit
by Mr. Laperrière
- Since
February of 2007, the Art-Azo Gallery as well as the
Art-Inter Gallery, both in Sherbrooke, present some of Mr.
Laperrière’s work
Some important
buyers…
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Desjardins
Financial Headquarters, Sherbrooke area.
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Sherbrooke's
Firefighters's Association.
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University of
Sherbrooke Communication's dept.
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Sherbrooke's Chamber of
Commerce.
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Vaillancourt &
Guertin, Law Firm, in St-Jean sur Richelieu
...A few
private collections...
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R. Duperval, d.m.,
world renown leader in the field of "Severe infectious
diseases"
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Mr. H.-P. Rousseau, CEO Caisse
de Dépôt et Placement du Québec:
http://www.usherbrooke.ca/accueil/direction/allocutions/2006/ensemble_tableau-061004.html
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