She is currently shooting them reunion throughout Quebec, which notably allows him to recover his songs, but at the same time prepares a multidimensional project that will unite his paintings with his songs.
“I had the idea of combining both and showing how the process of composing, writing and singing works and how all of this can be connected.” [avec la peinture]said Martine St-Clair, who has been involved with abstract art for over 20 years.
“When I shared my idea with the composers I will be collaborating with, my approach was to create a song and a table of toleration in alloy in the same space-time. I cannot receive a song and then paint it. I want to receive music and design the painting and lyrics at the same time,” she explained in an interview with QMI Agency.
Tot’Aime is also part of this first song version to be registered, the singer added. This first piece, written by Lucien Francoeur and composed by Gilbert Montagné during the pandemic, is also very impressive for Martine St-Clair. It addresses both the light, rebirth and finding your mission in life, she described.
The song also tells of the crop color that flooded her room at her uncle’s house in Fortierville, in the Center-du-Québec region, where she spent entire summers playing in the fields as a child. A color that is obviously very striking for the artist, who is always looking for light, colors and harmonies that perfectly reflect her thoughts when creating.
“I still vividly remember waking up early at my uncles’ house on the weekend. It was this light reflected across the wheat fields. It was like magic to me,” she recalls.
“That’s what I love about abstract art. That’s because you’re immersed in this topic, like a conversation! The music is also a conversation I have with a text, in relation to my own speakers,” she argued.
Martine’s “Reunion”
After a career spanning more than 40 years, Martine St-Clair, who no longer has enough hands to count all her successes, keeps bringing certain songs back from her catalogue.
“Superman’s Son” is among the songs she has not sung in decades, despite continued demand from her audience.
“It’s hard to sing because it’s so emotional. I didn’t feel able to do that before,” she admitted, stressing that she’s in the process of winning it back for this tour that started last winter.
There are also those titles that are among his essentials “about love in the state of naivety” that he can’t ignore, even if they don’t necessarily stick to his skin anymore. “It is certain that from afar I was wondering how I would be doing. These are songs I sang when I was 22, 23, 24…” she said, hinting that this time she interpreted them without taking herself too seriously, “as if it were a person which this girl looked at and laughed “a little”.
At the age of 60, Martine St-Clair is currently experiencing one of her most beautiful tours. “It’s huge what I’m going through. “It’s been a long time since I’ve done a solo tour and it’s like I’ve found myself, as an artist, as a singer,” she said, adding that she even sees her audiences getting younger.
Knowing she’ll be presenting her new Painting Songs project next year, she’s also started testing her concept on the big screen and the response has been extraordinary, said the artist, who also says he’s been since painted differently. in musicality.
AT The beautiful tour This monday
Martine St-Clair will be speaking a bit more about her projects this Monday on TVA’s La Belle Tour, where she will perform alongside Debbie Lynch-White and Steve Veilleux.
Martine St-Clair, Steve Veilleux, Laurence Lebel and Debbie Lynch-White interview La belle tour host Guy Jodoin. Photo Thonycool
More information about the tour dates can be found here.
And to discover his paintings, click here.