#45 Green Mountain, Artist Jean Boutilier

Title: Green Mountain

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Approximate Size: 25"h 21"w

Framed

Susan Jean Boutilier (Jean) 1937-2018

Jean was born and raised in Toronto along with her six siblings. She graduated from the Shaw Business School and started working for the Bank of Commerce. When she married in 1955, she decided to leave the working world and became a stay at home Mom and raised four children with her husband in Willowdale. She was always very crafty with her sewing. She made clothes for her children and she also created hand crafted dolls and hats that were sold all over the world. When her husband Les retired from firefighting after a 32 year long career, they retired to the Madoc, Ontario area (Queensborough) in 1986.  

For a few years, Jean entered her quilts and baked goods into the Fall County Fair and won several “First Prize” awards. When her interests turned to painting, she studied Tole Painting and Decorative Art with local Artist, Doreen Howard, from 1990 through to 1994. Having enjoyed the acrylic medium for a number of years, and receiving a certificate for teaching from Loyalist College, she extended her scope to oil painting. Studying with Dorothy Dent and other well known painters, she honed her skills and eventually started teaching at her home, sharing her love of art with many dear friends and local artists. 

Over the years, Jean was often commissioned to paint five foot wide saw blades and various pieces of furniture. Sometimes people would commission her to reproduce scenes, with paint, from photographs that they had taken.
 

The family of the late Jean Boutilier donated many of her paintings to help the Madoc Community.