A great pioneer of 20th-century textile art, Mariette Rouseau-Vermette created tapestries that played with volume, relief, and colour. In her projects, she often integrated surprising and unconventional materials for the time period, like fibre optics. Her work can be seen in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Japan where you'll find her tapestries in many prestigious public and private collections.
At the end of the 1960s, Donald Simons met Mariette Rousseau-Vermette and was captivated by her work in textile art. He purchased a tapestry made entirely of hand-spun wool, entitled Éclat de joie. This tapestry underwent skilled restoration work by the Centre de conservation du Québec. The Simons family is proud to present this piece to the public and in so doing, chronicle a key and effervescent period of the arts in Quebec.
