Julie Lalonde
Multidisciplinary Artist – Painting | Photography | Tattoo Art
My work is rooted in emotion and instinct.
Each creation is an attempt to make the invisible visible, balancing fragility and intensity.
My story
I was born in Huberdeau, a small corner of the Laurentians surrounded by nature and silence.
Since as far back as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to art. My mother says I always had pencils in my hands and a sketchpad on my knees.
My older sister took art classes in high school, and I would often rummage through her projects, fascinated by her creations.
Drawing and writing were my first safe spaces.
My school planner was overflowing with poems and sketches — often more than homework.
I dreamed of studying art, but life led me elsewhere. Still, I kept creating, learning on my own, taking the occasional course here and there.
Painting came much later.
When my father was diagnosed with cancer and passed away three months later, something opened up inside me.
I picked up a paintbrush, and I never put it down again. Painting is what saved me.
It allowed me to express what I couldn’t say in any other way.
Creating became a necessity — a way to breathe.
Later, I enrolled in a certificate program in visual arts and slowly began to build my style.
Today, I express myself through painting, photography, watercolor, tattooing, and drawing.
I love anything that allows me to create and transform emotion into matter.
In 2014, I organized my first artistic event to bring together other local talents.
I’m now preparing my next exhibition — a very personal and committed project.
My goal: to make art a space for healing, awareness, and freedom.
Welcome to my world.
Artistic statement
I am a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist.
My creative process begins with an inner movement—an impulse I cannot control, like an invisible tension that insists on expressing itself beyond words. Images often impose themselves on me, carried by raw emotion, a memory, a silence, a shock, or a sensed presence. Until I give them form, they remain within me—vibrant and insistent.
I explore multiple media: acrylic painting, tattooing, photography, watercolor, and, more recently, sculpture. Each discipline lets me reveal a different facet of the human condition. My style is raw, expressive, often contrasted. I enjoy blending figurative and abstract, control and chaos, silence and substance.
My art speaks of humanity—not only of femininity, but of lived experience in all its complexity: invisible wounds, buried emotions, the marks left by relationships, by time, by absence. What moves me deeply is the unspoken—the stories bodies tell without words, what we feel without fully understanding. I have always wanted to understand people, their inner justice, their transformations. It is in those spaces that my art takes root.
Tattooing has honed my ability to capture the essence of a person in a few lines. That sense of intensity and attentive presence flows into all my creations. I approach each work as a body of its own—respectfully, intentionally, mindfully. I work with traces, textures, imperfections, treating them as imprints of the real.
Creating is, for me, an act of survival, but also of light. It is a way to lay things down, to heal, to reveal. I create to understand, to make others feel, to give voice to what cannot be spoken. My works do not always need words. They tell, they vibrate, they exist—and sometimes they allow others to recognize themselves without having to explain.