
Dominic Besner, "Playground des Onéries"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 39.5" x 43.25"
Dominic Besner, "The Black Shoes"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 78" x 96"
Dominic Besner, "Les Étoilés Sylvestre"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 48" x 60" x 2.5"
Dominic Besner, "La Grand-Grande"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 60" x 30"
Dominic Besner, "L'immatriculé"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 48" x 84"
Dominic Besner, "Cupidon"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 24" x 24"
Dominic Besner, "Noiro"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 48" x 80"
Dominic Besner, "Dame de Savane"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 24" x 24"
Dominic Besner, "Le Cavalier de Cour"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 90" x 30"
Dominic Besner, "Les Dentellianes"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 30" x 40"
Dominic Besner, "Le Joueur D'oizau"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 54" x 54"
Dominic Besner, "La Grande Nuiteuse"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 36" x 24"
Dominic Besner, "Horse-Trot"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 48" x 40"
Dominic Besner, "Les Buttes de Coline"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 16" x 14"
Dominic Besner, "Galerie de L'avenue-Venante"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 72" x 48"
Dominic Besner, "Trône Totem"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 14" x 11"
Dominic Besner, "L'antre des Édens"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 48" x 48"
Dominic Besner, "The Dollar Bull"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 48" x 84"
Dominic Besner, "Héraut Zar"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 30" x 24"
Dominic Besner, "La Sanctus"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 72" x 60"
Dominic Besner, "L'astre de Nuit"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 48" x 60"
Dominic Besner, "Les Saints Empreinteurs"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 72" x 60"
Dominic Besner, "Les Bois de Velours"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 30" x 24"
Dominic Besner, "Fer Rouge"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 24" x 24"
Dominic Besner, "Skull de Guipure"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 72" x 48"
Dominic Besner, "Les Louises-Bonnes"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 78" x 84"
Dominic Besner, "Les Mystérieux D'ailleurs"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 12" x 12"
Dominic Besner, "Au-delà du Garou"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 72" x 48"
Dominic Besner, "Le Géant du Levant"
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 69" x 69"
Dominic Besner, "Los Milos" SOLD
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 20" x 16"
Dominic Besner, "Le Grand Échassier" SOLD
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 16" x 20"
Dominic Besner, "Le Labyrinthe en Bleu-City" SOLD
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint
30" x 30"
Dominic Besner, "La Nuit Gantée" SOLD
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 40" x 36"
Dominic Besner, "La Corne de Paon" SOLD
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint | 48" x 60"
Dominic Besner, "Le Grand Torchère" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
54" x 40"
Dominic Besner, "Je te Porterai Dans L'Inlandsis" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
60" x 96"
Dominic Besner, "Les Têtes Postiches" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
60" x 48"
Dominic Besner, "La XVIIe Chaire Du Prédicateur" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
84" x 48"
Dominic Besner, "Les Vallons De la Crèche" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
84" x 60"
Dominic Besner, "Les Grandes Machines" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
68" x 84"
Dominic Besner, "La Butineuse Du Cent Ans" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
28" x 28"
Dominic Besner, "L'Antre Du Paradoxe" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
150" x 215"
Dominic Besner, "La Haute Cité Comté" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
40" x 20"
Dominic Besner, "Le Flaireur Dormant" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
24" x 36"
Dominic Besner, "L'Épitre Des Matines" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 48"
Dominic Besner, "La Coiffe de Siège" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
30" x 30"
Dominic Besner, "Les Seigneurs Polaires" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
68" x 84"
Dominic Besner, "La Basse Plaine-Tribune" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 36"
Dominic Besner, "Murmures Des Échos" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
60" x 30"
Dominic Besner, "La Grande Astre de Garde" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
24" x 24"
Dominic Besner, "Fifre Trèflé" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
30" x 30"
Dominic Besner, "Au Quai D'Épate" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 60"
Dominic Besner, "L'Arche des Illustres" SOLD
Acrylic, oil stick, modeling paste, china marker and spray paint
48" x 72"
Dominic Besner, "L'Abysse Des Vanesses" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
84" x 60"
Dominic Besner, "Le Dernier Peulven" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
36" x 36"
Dominic Besner, "Le Caravanier Du Littoral" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 48"
Dominic Besner "Les Promeneurs Témoins" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
150" x 215"
Dominic Besner, "Le Buveur D'Azilé" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
173" x 173"
Dominic Besner, "Les Enjambeures Des Neptune" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
68" x 68"
Dominic Besner, "À Demi Jour Tout Horizon" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
84" x 48"
Dominic Besner, "Sa Dernière Épitre" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 84"
Dominic Besner, "Le Migre des Massifs" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
68" x 84"
Dominic Besner, "Humani Ex Machina" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
72" x 60"
Dominic Besner, "Le Dernier Silence" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
68" x 84"
Dominic Besner, "Éfé" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
60" x 48"
Dominic Besner, "L'Étameur de Soie" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
84" x 60"
Dominic Besner "La ménagerie des cités-comtés" SOLD
Mixed media on canvas
60" x 60"
Besner’s creative work is based on a mixed technique on canvas. He has a preference for oil sticks and their rich palette of colours as well as acrylic paint, structural mortar, china marker and aerosol paint. In addition to these materials, he uses a technique of application by the fingers and scraping of the canvas.
Besner was born in 1965 in North Lancaster, Ontario. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Montreal in 1992. This early education allowed him to focus his thoughts on the nature of the city and its components.
The artist is entirely open to the vibrations of contemporary society which he seeks to remodel in new forms of plasticity, hovering somewhere between the figurative and the abstract. His aim is not to create an ideal or to reproduce nature, but rather to give form to the energy emanating from the metaphysics of human activity.
The fantastic creations to which he gives birth on the canvas are a synonym of human fragility, of the brevity of life, by which he is both awed and troubled. Besner draws on the energy from the heart of the city, with its noise and fast-paced activity, which he then modulates in his painting. The characters depicted are necessarily imbued with the same sense of dizzying movement associated with urban press. They live in the echoes and the ambience of the city, which the artist depicts using colours, lines and motifs.
Whether his subject is human, animal or architectural, the resulting depiction is always the effect of a plasticity that emerges from the dynamic relation between the figure and the space. When the subject is a person, everything is in his gaze, his mouth, his high cheekbones, broad forehead and sometimes merely in the slight angle at which the head is held. The overall facial expression is more than just a reflection of personality; it is a reflection of our contemporary world, which belongs to all of us. Postures, hairstyles, body language ― all mirror the movement initiated by the face and express the full eloquence of the work.
The emotional structure of Besner’s work expresses a renewed, richer and deeper view of life, based on line and colour. The resulting depiction is the image of a world in itself, which largely transcends the two dimensional limits of the canvas.