Danielle Fontaine

I was born in St-Adelphe, Québec, Canada, and lived in four countries and six states before settling in South Carolina in 1999 with my husband and four children.

My fascination with art began as a child, with the architecture of the Montreal World’s Fair. The fantastic forms, colors and stories of Expo ’67 inspired me to study architecture and later, creative writing. When I discovered encaustic painting, a new storytelling adventure began.

My encaustic work considers the enduring question of what we elect to keep or preserve and the reasons why, and invites reflection on what, or whom, we discard along the way.

Still Time on Pye Pond, a memoir of interracial marriage, dwells in a small family farm in South Georgia where an odd collection of potentially fixable or reusable items await their fate in a randomly ordered fashion. I find much poetry, at once beautiful and sad, in their uncertain future. It is this conflicted beauty, this Southern family portrait that I seek to recreate in my studio, and now also on the page.

Pye Pond used to be home to all of us; not anymore. There is waywardness. Unspoken absences.

Things change ever so slowly on Pye Pond, but there is still time…

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