Monique Paré has always painted. Through a long and decorated career in sales and training — managing hundreds of people across Quebec, winning contracts, building teams — her brush never strayed far. About Monique Paré: painting was her constant: the thing she came back to when the workday ended and the world got quiet.

Now, from a home studio in Saint-Sauveur with the Laurentian mountains stretching out before her, it’s no longer a hobby. It’s everything. Monique recently made the leap to pursue her art full time — and those who know her aren’t surprised. She has always brought the same intensity to a canvas as she did to a boardroom: total focus, deep feeling, and an instinct for what moves people.

Her work spans acrylics and oils, touching on the themes that stir her most — flowers in full bloom, sweeping landscapes, the faces of people with stories behind their eyes, and the lively character of towns and cities. She can spend days lost in a single piece, searching for exactly the right composition, the right light, the right moment to commit brush to canvas.

Born in Toronto and raised in Kirkland, Quebec, Monique now splits her time between Saint-Sauveur and Pointe-Claire. She is the proud mother of three daughters — and paints, in many ways, for all of them.

Monique Paré paints with the kind of emotional directness that doesn’t date. Her Quebec landscapes, wildlife, and nature scenes are rooted in place and feeling rather than trend — the same qualities that made the great Quebec painters enduring are alive in her work, just expressed through a contemporary, deeply personal voice. Collectors who hang a Monique Paré original aren’t decorating a wall. They’re choosing a piece that will still stop them in their tracks a decade from now.