Maurice Turcotte
Pastels and Oil Paintings

Maurice Turcotte has resided in Noblesville, Indiana, for the last four years. He began his artistic career in highly technical roles, starting in 1974 as a technical publications draftsman for General Dynamics in Connecticut. Career growth and opportunities then found him managing the Creative Design/Graphic Arts department of Textron in the early/mid-1980's. Later, he was the designer and pre-press supervisor in the print department of the Paul Revere Insurance Group in Massachusetts. His formal education took him to New England's LaSalette College and The Hall Drafting Institute, El Camino College in California and, finally, The Rhode Island School of Design.

His passion, love, and interest in fine art led him to study with Daniel Green, one of the foremost pastelists in the United States, and pastel/landscape artist Albert Handell. Maurice has held professional memberships in the Salmagundi Art Club, founded in 1871; the Academic Artist Association, founded in 1951 by Harriet Randall Lumis to celebrate realism in art; the Copley Society of Boston, established in 1879; Pastel Painters of Maine; and the North Shore Art Association, established on the Cape in 1922.

Artist's Statement

I feel that an artist evolves and, through his evolution, he creates. An artist paints what he feels, what he likes, and what he experiences. He seeks the ultimate discovery; a fresh and personal impression of his world and his times.