In recent years, Dage devoted herself exclusively to painting. Her works are the result of a quest. Her paintings are actually studies and experiments of her attempts to seize the elusive; energy. She tries to capture and express the essence of life, the energy that lies within. Her subjects are also selected based on the emotion and energy that emanate from them.

Born in 1967 in Montreal, she had a happy youth. Very young she has shown interest in drawing. Her parents offered her to explore this avenue and at ten, she made her first steps as an artist. She learned how to paint by making reproductions of masters’ paintings.

Later, in spite of the recommendations of the career counsellor, she undertakes arts studies in college. For her it was important that she would end up doing what she loves to do. She didn’t know exactly where that would bring her, but she knew that was the way. She developed her knowledge of painting and drawing. She also explored new techniques and many aspects of visual art, from painting to collage, through the creation of three-dimensional works. But it’s in the pictorial representation that she excelled and choose to concentrate her effort.

Subsequently she completed a Bachelor in Design at the university, still in Montreal. This early education allowed her to evolve and deepen her knowledge and sharpen her critical sense of esthetism. She developed a sense of observation that goes beyond appearances.

After the graduation, she worked for several years as a graphic designer. But the desire to create, to express herself, to paint resurfaced. She starts to create murals. That brings back her joy of painting. For nearly 10 years, she designs and produces murals, mainly for children's rooms, to the delight of young and old.

Although pleasant, it's not enough for her; she feels the need to go deeper. On a beautiful Saturday morning, she bought a first canvas. A very large canvas. Because she feels that it is in large format that she must express her emotions.

She was already playing with paint filaments while creating the murals. In fact, it’s these filaments that led her to experiment creating a painting with lines of paint. She started experimenting, creating textures, mixing paints and mediums and finally found this trait, this defining characteristic of her artistic language. She found her signature; The Intentional Dripping.

Dage use dripping to paint. A technic that the famous American painter Jackson Pollock (also known as Jack the Dripper) created in the 50s. She uses acrylic paint for its fluidity and its rich colors palette. The energy used for the production of a artwork is almost palpable. The uninterrupted movement that can be observed following the lines of paint allows us to imagine the intensity, the presence of the artist when she create.

Dage does not in any way seek to reproduce the real world. Her faces, the trees, even bodies are created beyond the figurative to let the emotions speak, which become an integral parts of the work.

And you may notice on many paintings a strong splashes of paint. That’s for Dage a way to transfer to the painting a bigger charge of emotion. That last splash is more than just paint. It symbolizes the rupture between the intentional dripping and the hazardous, impulsive desire to scream out loud the raw emotion.