  Denis Georges Coupal has explored art his entire life, beginning very young to draw in the blueberry fields of Sept-Iles and later painting along the shores of the Saint-Lawrence River, mainly around the Island of Montreal. A great admirer of Picasso (who isn’t?), Turner and Van Gogh, among many other painters, and of contemporary artists such as Mark Tansey and Tony Scherman, his work reflects a belief in art as essential to our everyday lives. His career as an artist really began while as a student of architecture at McGill University, when John Bland, Emeritus Professor of Architecture and the school’s Director from 1941 to 1972, elected to purchase one of his landscape paintings, A Summer Field for his private collection. While at McGill, Denis studied under Gentile Tondino, RCA, and was later mentored for years by the late Bruce Le Dain, Past President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, one of the foremost impressionist landscape painters in Canada."Bruce loved my BLUE SELF-PORTRAIT best, a watercolour painted over an intense eight-hour session in 1987. Stayed up all night for it and thought it was terrible when I stopped, but knew it was as far as I could go with it in that session." D.G.Coupal graduated from Dawson College with both Creative Arts and Pure & Applied Science degrees, with Honours for a 100% grade point average in mathematics and calculus courses. He studied cinema at Concordia University, graduated from McGill University School of Architecture (B.Sc.'91 & B.Arch.'92) and from the Executive Development Course (EDC '98) of McGill University International Executive Institute. His architectural student work was published in Architecture Magazine (AIA) and a one-act play Losing Sight was produced by McGill Players' Theatre in his graduating year. He received screenwriting grants from Société de developpement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) and The Foundation to Underwrite New Drama for Pay Television (FUND). His professional career began with a traditional role in a small architectural firm in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. Weekends were spent on sporadic painting excursions in the hills and valleys outside towns such as Bromont, Knowlton and Magog. 
Interestingly, D.G.Coupal worked as Strategic Planner of a Montreal-based, internationally recognized, museum planning and exhibit design firm. In those years, D.G.Coupal was responsible for writing key business proposals and master planning concepts for projects such as: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC); Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Audubon Nature Institute (New Orleans, Louisiana); New Science Center of Iowa (Des Moines, Iowa); Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paelaeontology (Drumheller, Alberta), and; Canada Science and Technology Museum, (Ottawa, Ontario), amongst many others. This experience opened his eyes to the great challenges and beautiful achievements of major museums and cultural institutions. It was also great proving ground for a strong conceptual thinking and strategic planner. D.G.Coupal has been commissioned by BOMBARDIER Aerospace, for their Global and Challenger business class aircraft, The Strauss Foundation, McGill University, Town of Hampstead, Delta Hotels, and Four Points Sheraton Hotels, Black Watch of Canada, to name a few. His art and articles have appeared in Magazin’ Art and Fine Art Magazine, New York, among other publications.
For more on D.G.Coupal's art see:Influences
Denis is also represented by the Sybille Sasse Agency as spokesman for some notable brands such as Jean Coutu and Bathfitter, being featured in multiple corporate videos as the on-camera narrator, as well as lead spokesman in tv commercials for such companies as Dicom, Bath Fitter, and others.
"Western Fable", Photo by Wassim Njeim, North of Montreal, 2008.
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