This is the message that runs through Dieppe abstract artist Matt LeBlanc’s 2011 Art for Life campaign, which last year raised $38,000 to help in the fight against cancer.
Matt started the campaign in memory of his late sister, Madeleine , and in support of the Tree of Hope, an annual event held by the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont Hospital Foundation in Moncton, which improves the quality of care for cancer patients, and enhances global cancer research efforts.
Now, of course, Matt hopes to raise even more, and has opened this year’s campaign by creating a video, along with twenty-four other artists from every corner of North America, and even one from Australia!
The idea was simple; Matt asked each artist, ‘why do you paint?’ The video, (http://youtu.be/ef-HlRDmScg), is a collection of the artist’s responses.
Listening to the emotion, the dedication, the passion expressed by these twenty-five artists, it’s clear that to each of them, art is a part of their very soul. They must paint. They must create. It’s that simple.
Just as a bird has to sing, so an artist has to paint. Painting makes them feel alive, yet at peace, they are exhilarated by the creative process, liberated, challenged, and rewarded by their ability to express the beauty of life, and to share it with the whole world.
Their collective hope is surely the hope of all of us, to help to find a cure for cancer. These twenty-five artists have united to express the simple beauty that is within them, and to remind us what we are capable of when we come together.
You can learn more about matt LeBlanc’s Art for Life campaign at http://www.mattleblancart.com/en/art-for-life/
And the Tree of Hope at http://www.fondationdumont.ca/
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