Jean-Claude Roy

JC Roy - "Evening Light"
JC Roy - "Windy Day Cape Freels"
JC Roy - "Salmon Cove"
JC Roy - "Quidi Vidi"
JC Roy - "Autumn Wind, Brigus"
JC Roy - "English Harbour"
JC Roy - "Bryant's Cove"
JC Roy - "Quand le Soleil d it Bonjour aux Montagney Newfoundland"
JC Roy - "Shoe Cove"
JC Roy - "Chapels Cove"
JC Roy - "Boats at Rest, Petty Harbour Newfoundland"

Artist Bio: Jean-Claude Roy

Jean-Claude Roy was born in 1948 near Bordeaux in France. He showed an early talent for painting, but at the age of 12 was sent to Technical College in Saintes to study to become a merchant mariner. He had started to paint during his spare time by making sketches outdoors and then turning these sketches into oil paintings in the studio. Jean-Claude first came to Newfoundland in 1966 while working on a French cable-repair ship. He loved the wild Newfoundland landscape and started to make sketches there. At this time he met well-known Newfoundland painters Gerald Squires and George Horan, who both helped him with the technical aspects of his art and were important influences on him. In 1971, he moved to St. John’s in Newfoundland and began to paint full-time. Jean-Claude’s first exhibition of his paintings in Newfoundland was held in 1974. Since then he has had many exhibitions of his work in Canada, France, and the United States. He now divides his time with his Newfoundland-born wife between France and St. John’s.