About

Canadian landscape artist Noemie L. Cote

Looking at a piece by the international award winning artist Noemie L. Cote, you are at once hit by the sugar-pop of colour that reimagines the landscapes she brings to life on canvas. It’s hard not to be swept along in the bounce of her impasto painted strokes and moved by the sheer joy that emanates from her work.

Noémie specializes in vibrant open-impressionist landscapes that capture the essence of a scene, breathes new life into it and leaves the observer uplifted. It’s as if her mind were a prism that takes in the white light that she sees and disperses the component colours on the rolling hills or through the branches of a tree. This gives her work the quality of blown glass where colours play off each other and come together as a whole to define the feeling of a scene.

Noémie’s love of nature was ignited by her early years living in Africa. As a french speaking 9-year-old thrust into an english speaking culture, she spent a lot of time observing and taking in the beauty surrounding her. She studied the delicate shades of rose bushes, the large Acadia gum tree in her backyard, the firey red and orange sunsets, the beautiful people and exotic wildlife. Her initial painting lessons were taught by one of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated painters.

Returning to Canada at the age of 13, she fell in love with the ever-changing seasons, the contrast of lush vibrant colours, and the stillness of snowy scenes. Forging her emerging talent, she auditioned for the prestigious visual arts program at Canterbury Arts High School winning a four year scholarship. Noemie thrived in this intensive art program and graduated with honours. Knowing that art was a cornerstone to her professional satisfaction, she translated her art into a celebrated 23 year career in graphic design.

Not content to limit her creative expression to graphic design, Noemie continued to develop her proficiency in sculpture, life drawing and oil painting parallel to her career. From this 23 year exploration of artistic form the most true expression of her artistry and herself emerged into open-impressionist landscape painting.

In contrast to the chaos and harshness of daily life, Noemie finds solace in bringing nature’s soothing, grounding and effortless beauty to canvas. These days you can find her, hair wildly blowing, plein-air painting on the boardwalk of mer bleue bog, snapping pictures in her sneakers of the morning light falling across the treed hills of Gatineau Park, or capturing the straight rows of grapevines contrasted with the wild flowers of Leystone Vineyard, where she is an artist in residence.

Her full-time studio is in the heart of Canada’s capital, Ottawa and her work is currently being featured in the Koyman Galleries, Butter Gallery and you will find the greatest collection of her most recent paintings on her website.

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AWARDS

2024 First Place Award - The CFA Artist of the Year Award 2024 circle-arts.com/aoy23_announced
2024 Artistic Expression Award - "Autumn's Glory" in the 2024 SCA Open International Online Exhibition - Society of Canadian Artists

EDUCATION

Fine Arts 2000 Fine Arts program of Canterbury High School (graduated with honours)
Ceramics 2004 BFA in Ceramics at the Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts
Workshops 2019-22 Gordon Harrison, Brian Buckwell and Topher Straus

EXHIBITIONS

2024-04 SCA Open International Online Juried Exhibition - Won the Artistic Expression Award - Society of Canadian Artists
2024-03 Canadian Blood Services, group exhibition, Ottawa, Ontario
2024-03 Galerie Old Chelsea, solo guest exhibition “Nature’s Canvas”, Chelsea Quebec
2023-11 NOIR Art Festival, exhibitor in Lansdowne Park, Ottawa, Ontario
2023-10 Kingston Square Foot Show, online & in-person juried art show
2023-09 Petite Art Show, juried online art show
2023-09 Butter Gallery - 3 x 3 Show - Group show, Collingwood, Ontario
2023-07 TOAF - Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, juried art exhibition
2023-06 The New Art Festival - juried outdoor art fair, Ottawa, Ontario
2023-04 Artist Project - juried in-door art fair, Toronto, Ontario
2023-03 Artwk March Group Show - juried online art show
2023-02 Square Foot Show - juried online art show
2023-01 Annual Juried Art Exhibition - Cline House Gallery
2022-2023 Flora and Wine, PAINTING 2022 - John B. Aird Gallery at airdgallery.org/publications
2022 Holiday Exhibition of Smalls - Koyman Galleries, Ottawa, Ontario
2022 Merry Mini Holiday Show - Cline House Gallery, Cornwall, Ontario
2022 Annual Holiday Gift Guide 2022 Show, online exhibition at artwrk.ca
2022 Mastrius Christmas Art Show, online exhibition at mastrius.com
2022 Sunset Calm, 2022 LIMITLESS Exhibition - Federation of Canadian Artists at federationgallery.com
2022 Kingston's Square Foot Show - Tett Centre, Kingston, Ontario
2022 Capturing Joy: A Gatineau Park Experience, Roberto Romana, Chelsea, Quebec (Solo)
2022 Leystone Lemonade: Vineyard Collection, Koyman Galleries, Ottawa, Ontario (Solo)
2021 Mer Bleue Bog, Holiday Gift Guide, online exhibition at artwrk.ca
2021 Verdant Green Forest Collection, Fresh Emerging Art Show, online exhibition at artwrk.ca
2021 Brilliance of the 1000 Islands, OD Fine Arts Event, Ottawa, Ontario
2021 /'LAN(D),SKĀP/: Contemporary Landscape Views, Esperanto Gallery & Studios Inc., Markham, Ontario
2021 Dreamy Clouds, Arteast Mosaic 2021, Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
2020 Summer Storm, CAPRAC Gallery Holiday Arts, CAPRAC, Prescott-Russell Arts Council, Ontario
2020 Lac Fortune in Fall, Arteast Awards Exhibition, Shenkman Arts Centre Ottawa, Ontario
2019 Bold Mountains, Arteast Juried Awards Exhibition, Shenkman Arts Centre Ottawa, Ontario
2017 “Canterbury High School Fine Arts graduates” Arts Court, Ottawa, Ontario
2016 “Canterbury High School Ceramics” Global Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023-2024 The Cline House Gallery, various one-day landscape oil painting workshops
2023-2024 Self Promoted one day workshop for varies landscape oil painting workshops
2023-2024 Bold School, Bold Color Landscape Online Art Class
2023-01 Koyman Galleries, two-day workshop Landscapes Painting in Oils
2022-05 Artodigy, Colorful landscapes in oil workshop at boldschool.com/bold-landscapes

FEATURED IN

2024-02 Artist Interview, Circle Foundation of the Arts
2024-01 Circle Quarterly Art Review, Winter 2024 Magazine #10, Featured painting “Serenity” - An Examination of Current Trends & Original Practices in Visual Art
2022-09 The Corking and Uncorking of Nurture, The Equity newspaper
2022-05 Stories from the Studio, Koyman Galleries
2022-05 May Spotlight Artist Noémie L. Côté, Artodigy
2022-03 Noémie L. Côtê, Mastrius.com
2022-02 The Art Edit… House & Garden Magazine, Condé Nast
2022-02 Bold Color Landscape Artist, Full-time painter, Bold School
2022-01 The Art Edit… House & Garden Magazine, Condé Nast
2022-01 Celebrate your home with the Pantone Colour of the Year, AllThingsHome.ca
2021-12 The Art Edit… House & Garden Magazine, Condé Nast
2021-08 Entrepreneurship as an artist, Pulze Online TV
2021-08 Noémie L. Côté Landscape Artist, Women Rock Magazine

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2021-2022 Leystone Farms