Biography

Born in 1959 in Canada's Ottawa-Hull region, Poulin was still a child when the artist-to-be parents moved to Montreal. This gave the artist the opportunity to study and graduate from the College of Old Montreal Arts Department and the Mission Renaissance Fine Art Institute. Having lived over a decade in the village of Saint-Beatrix north of Montreal (where a street was renamed after the artist), Poulin moved to Historic Niagara-on-the-Lake a short distance from Niagara Falls. The artist thus opened a gallery in a 19th century Georgian Manor on the scenic Niagara River Parkway. Poulin now spends most of the time in the mountains for health reasons.
Poulin is best known for the figures; nevertheless it was landscapes in a solo exhibition that launched the artist's career in 1978. It's a few years later that the artist started painting full time. Poulin's work has since been shown on numerous occasions in Canada, the United States and Europe. The artist's reputation was firmly established first in Quebec when in 1986 when the artist illustrated the best selling novel "Les Filles de Caleb" from Arlette Cousture (more than a million copies sold).
The 1990's marked a turning point in Poulin's career, a record breaking performance in the American market established Poulin as the most collected Canadian artist in the world and as a result won the nation's Artist of the Year award two years in a row. Poulin was one of three Canadian artists, along with Robert Bateman, that were published by a major American limited edition publisher.
When Poulin first visited Niagara-on-the-Lake, it was love at first sight! The century old trees, the vineyards and orchards, the parks, the architecture but more importantly the very special light, inspired the artist to devote a growing part of creativity to the representation of the mystical beauty of the Niagara vineyards.
Poulin's landscapes are available in small pastels and paintings and large oil paintings. The smaller ones are mostly plein-air pochades, works that are performed outdoors and capture the fleeting moment of the day; while the larger oils are studied expressions of the latter.
What was a personal parallel endeavor has now become a very promising and successful new style.
The new museum grade Giclée process now allows the publishing of high end short run editions of the artworks.