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CHANTAL GAGNON

Chantal distils information, energy and memories. She holds space for external influences to be filtered through her and settled into a clear revelation. Chantal’s work is less about control and more about communion with environment, intuition, and emotion. Each colour, each texture, is a response to what is felt but often unspoken. She does not set out to impose meaning, but allows meaning to emerge.

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I don't manufacture art; I cultivate it.

I provide the environment, the silence, and the technical skill, and then I wait for the truth of the work to emerge on its own terms.

Bio

Chantal Gagnon (b. 1991, Canada) is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist whose practice functions as a sophisticated, atmospheric mirror to the environments and ancestral lineages she inhabits. Gagnon’s work is characterised by an acute sensitivity to the frequencies of specific locations, a trait further refined by her transition from North America to the United Kingdom at the age of 18.

Following a formative period of study in Canada, San Francisco and London, Gagnon pivoted from the constraints of digital graphic design toward a deeply intuitive, analogue practice. This shift marked the beginning of her adventurous trajectory: a career defined by rigorous experimentation and the mastery of diverse media, including abstract painting, sculptural, crochet, collage, and poetry. Gagnon’s career is marked by a refusal to be defined by a single medium, instead allowing the unexpected turns of the creative process to dictate the form. Her work has frequently engaged with social and structural themes, notably through collaborative protest art and experimental stop-motion animation. Today, her practice is an investigation into the instinctual transmission of memory and pattern, resulting in a body of work that is as structurally complex as it is emotionally resonant.

Artist Statement

Chantal’s practice is an inquiry into the "Surprise" of existence, the moment where chaotic experimentation resolves into a resonant truth. Operating as a Reflector, she utilises her lack of fixed internal definition as a creative strength, allowing her work to become a site-specific dialogue with the cities and spaces Chantal traverses and the ancestral memories she inherits.

Central to Chantal’s methodology is a commitment to the analogue sanctuary. By strictly excluding digital technology from her studio, Chantal ensures that her work is a direct transmission of both the tangible surroundings and the intangible spirit of her environment. Her process is guided by the Strategy of Revelation: clarity through observation.

Chantal does not impose a predetermined outcome on the canvas or the fibre. Instead, she allows transmission, intuition and transmutation to dictate the resolution of each piece. Chantal’s work is less about control and more about communion with environment, intuition, and emotion. Each colour, each texture, is a response to what is felt but often unspoken. She does not set out to impose meaning, but allows meaning to emerge. What begins as reflection becomes revelation.

Whether through the repetitive, meditative architecture of crochet, the fractured narratives of collage, or the unpredictable fluidity of ink and fire, Chantal’s work explores the way we live and the ways we heal. She embraces the beautiful disasters of the creative process – the trial, the error, and the eventual transcendence – to produce work that reflects not just a personal vision, but a collective state of being. Chantal’s role is not to tell you what to see, but to offer a space where you might see yourself more clearly.

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Curriculum Vitae

2025
London, England
The Conservatoire
Adult Open
2024
London, England
The Conservatoire
Adult Open
2024
London, England
No Format Galery
Painting Open
2023
London, England
No Format Galery
Painting Open
2023
London, England
No Format Galery
Drawing Open
2015
London, England
UAL: London Collage of Communication
Grad Show
2011
London, England
Business Design Centre
Student Design Show
2024
The Legend of Perttu
By Chantal Gagnon
2026
Victoria, Canada
Psychic, Spirit & Wellness Fair
SOUL PATH DRAWING WORKSHOP

2026
Vancouver, Canada
Day of Intuition and Healing
CREATIVITY: THE MISSING PEICE OF SELF-DEVELOPMENT
Creativity as a powerful tool for clarity, presence, and self-development.

2025
Burns Lake, BC, Canada
THE ART OF US: THE WOMEN WHO CAME BEFORE
A Creative Journey of Intuition, Healing, and Ancestral Connection
Facilitated by Jenny Pirie (The Patchwork Intuitive) & Chantal Gagnon

2025
Vancouver, Canada
THE ART OF SELF-COMPASSION: ARTFUL ACTS OF SELF-RETURN
Explore the potent intersection of art-making and inner listening.
Facilitated by Sharon Storoschuk (Human Evolution Facilitator) & Chantal Gagnon
2025
London, United Kingdom
SCRIBBLE LIKE NO ONE IS WATCHING
With intuition, music and messy marks, break free of the fear of the blank page, one joyful mark at a time.
Facilitated by Shell Meggersee and Chantal Gagnon.
2026
London, England
Talks with MS
Sponsor - Donated gifts
2025
London, England
Talks with MS
Sponsor - Donated gifts
2025
London, England
Dyslexia Celebration
Dyslexic Artist and workshop host, as well as Sponsor
2024
London, England
Talks with MS
Sponsor - Donated gifts
2016
London, England
MoreEyesDesign
Workshop Assistant
2015
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Doogle Images
Model & Photographer Assistant
2012
San Francisco, CA, USA
Intervention Week
Gorilla planting all over the city
2011
London, England
JB Shehan Photography
Model & Wardrobe Assistant
2010
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Freewill Shakespeare Festival
Concession
2010
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Serca Festival of Irish Theatre
Concession
2009 - 2010
Edmonton, AB, Canada
SEE Magazine
Journalist, Photographer, My Look Column, Runner, Assistant
2009
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Edmonton Fashion Week
Hair Model
2025
Arteles Creative Center
Hämeenkyrö, Finland
Back to Basics
2024
Arteles Creative Center
Hämeenkyrö, Finland
Back to Basics
January 2025 – May 2025
London, England
London School of Muralism
October 2012 – August 2015
London, England
University of the Arts London: London College of Communication
(BA) Graphic & Media DesignBachelor of Arts Degree with First Class Honours
September 2011 – April 2012
San Francisco, California, United Sites of America
California Collage of Art
Second Year of Bachelor of Design, majoring in Graphic Design
September 2010 – August 2011
London, England
Cavendish College
Professional Diploma in Communications Design
September 2009 - June 2010
Edmonton, Canada
University of Alberta
Industrial Design
Awareness, Balance, Being, Belonging, Breath, Change, Club Culture, Community, Connection, Collective Consciousness, Creativity, Cults, Curiosity, Dimensions, Ego, Energy, Escapism, Flow, Freedom, Future, Growth, Interconnection, Integration, Isolation, Light, Meaning, Meditation, Mind, Mind-Body-Spirit Connection, Oneness, Quantum Physics, Questioning, Reality, Self, Silence, Social Media, Sound, Simplicity, Space, Spirituality, Synthesis, Systems, Texture, Third Culture, Trance, UFOs, Understanding, Universe, Well-being, Wisdom

Blomma Beauty | mural | 2025

COMMUNITY CO-CREATION & TRANSFORMATION

We are thrilled with our mural and thoroughly enjoyed the process with Chantal from start to finish. The ideation process pushed us out of our comfort zone so that we landed on a brilliant design that moves our brand look and feel forward whilst still retaining our values of fostering kindness, consciousness and calm through nature. It was so touching to see our community be involved… We had so much fun working together and connecting with our customers on a deeper level.

– Karen, founder of Blomma Beauty

BLOMMA BEAUTY | 2025

What began as a community-painted mural for Blomma Beauty’s workshop space evolved into a lesson in adaptive design. After leading collaborative research, copy-lefting sessions and a volunteer painting session, Chantal was tasked with reimagining the mural following a studio relocation. By translating the original "Bloom" motif into a modular window display, together Blomma Beauty and Chantal created a multifunctional brand hand-painted and laser cut asset that is as mobile as it is beautiful; ready for the studio, off-site events or a relocation.

A special thank you to all of the volunteers who helped with the mural and Shell Meggersee for all of her laser cutting and vinyl expertise and assistance on adapting the mural.

Integrity, creativity, and empathy shape the way we work. These aren't just words—they’re the foundation of everything we build. We believe in doing great work, building real relationships, and making it easy for you to get the results you’re looking for.

XAMAN-HA | Chantal’s first artwork to appear in British Vogue Magazine

Commissioned by a Canadian collector | 2024

Poems / Short stories

Electric grey
Alphabet aerobics cause
thumbs to blister
No need for a quarter
While I grew
in the belly she
Rested the controller on
She’s crowned Tetris champion
Young offspring hunt ducks
On a king sized bed,
NES essary
when the queen paints her face
Aladin fights for his princess
In basement forts
Tossed apples
Scrolls of super codes
Santa is here
Over the Rainbow road
Friends and neighbors
A collective 64
Wii play living room
Wimbledon
May the best
Family win
Sold out luck
Switch on the charm
just the magic needed
to give breath to Zelda
plastic loaded
with history, his story
forming memories of delight
From zeros and ones
In the shadowed depths of her mind, she walked alone, grappling with a silent storm that threatened to engulf her world in endless night.
Trapped in the labyrinth of her own thoughts, she faced the spectre of her fears, a relentless pursuer in the echoing corridors of uncertainty, only able to unlock the doors when she chose love.
Staring at the blank canvas, she found herself in a desert of creativity, where ideas once flowed like rivers now lay barren under the unyielding sun of expectation.

AURA BLOOM

CONVERSATION BETWEEN SPIRITS

CREATIVE SPARK

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