Sophie Laplante

On lucky mornings, I sit at my kitchen table and I draw amongst the mess of my family home. I can look out the window and see the trees and mountains.
I started to draw at a very young age.
Influenced by magazines and ideas of beauty, I studied fashion and got my degree in 2003. After failing to be accepted in the Arts in university, I wandered into a Culture and Communication program; this was a pivotal moment. I was slowly finding my way back to myself, giving voice to something I had honoured as a child, but strayed from as a teenager. Choosing the ideas of others over mine. I started making zines and cartoons, and drew very naive scenes.
Struck by depression in 2011, I had a short hiatus. Life eventually brought me to the country, where I could quietly raise my young boy and learn to live happily despite my not so great mental health.
Now life is still a struggle, especially as a mother, but my awareness of it all can ease the pressure and feed my drawing hand. Always gotta feed that drawing hand.

artist statement

So much of my reason for being here, is to bare witness to it. To the interesting loving people, that inspire me somehow. To bare witness to the all that holds me; to noise and to the silence. To sit and look, and listen. I could do this all days, until my time is finished.

Little of me wishes to experience, because simply being here, doing nothing, is so alive, so nurturing.

And so I will sit and look, and sometimes listen. But I will mostly do nothing, as most might understand. And share my findings, in due time.