London 2023 Charity Art Exhibition

Heidi Taillefer
Heidi Taillefer is an award winning, internationally recognized artist born in 1970 in Montreal, Quebec. She
attended weekly art classes as a child at the La Palette art school in Baie-d’Urfé, Quebec, focusing mainly on
watercolor and various other mediums. By the early 90’s Taillefer began working as a commercial illustrator in
tandem with her fine art projects, exhibiting internationally in both gallery and museum venues. By 2004 she
devoted her time almost fully to fine art, and while working as an illustrator, she collaborated with such notable
clients as Forbes Magazine, the Cirque du Soleil, Infiniti Canada and Infiniti Taiwan, to name a few.
Her paintings often depict subjects composed of seemingly incongruous objects characterized as symbolic,
which form a complex composite of elements and add a contemporary spin to often classical icons. Taillefer’s
work highlights our growing hybridization with technology, in which she depicts machine-like constructions. Her
approach is to infuse primordial aspects of the human condition into these hybridized humans and animals, and
seeks to remind the viewer of the inescapable nature of our being despite our increasing merger with technology.
Taillefer’s work is consonant with early 20th century surrealists such as Max Ernst, Paul Delvaux, and Giorgio
de Chirico. It is an original creative fusion of classical figurative painting, surrealism, contemporary realism, and
mythology combined with popular figurative traditions ranging from Victorian romanticism to science fiction.
www.heiditaillefer.com
‘Tease’ 2023
Oil on linen
50 x 40 cm