Jean-Paul Jérôme was born in Montreal on February 19, 1928 and attended the Montreal School of Fine Arts from 1945 to 1952 where he studied the art and technique of fresco painting under the direction of Stanley Cosgrove.  Then he dedicated himself to landscapes and still lives, mostly after the cubist way, in as early as 1953, he shifted towards abstract painting, letting large swaths of evenly brushed paint drift on his canvas.  In 1955, along with three painters of his friends Rodolphe de Repentigny, Louis Belzile and Fernand Toupin, he founded the Plasticien Movement who published their Manifesto in February of the same year, the guidelines of which, were based on the belief of Cézanne’s and Mondrian’s.  From 1956 to 1958, he lived in Paris, where he met Giacometti and Vasarelly and shared with René Mortensen a common passion for achieving a perfect harmony between shapes and colours. After he returned to Canada in 1958, he was admitted as a teacher by the Montreal School of Fines Arts.  In 1973, he quit teaching and devoted himself entirely to his art, following a creative urge that compelled him to house his studio in the south shore countryside of the St- Laurence river, in St-Ours sur le Richelieu, St-Laurent du Fleuve, St-Roch and Varennes, among others.  In 1978, the Royal Canadian Arts Academy honoured him by admitting him as a member, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the arts. Jean-Paul Jérôme had over a hundred exhibitions, either solo or collective, to his credit, in galleries and museums throughout the country. His works are also included into numerous Canadian private and public collections. In 2003, the Musée du Bas Saint-Laurent paid him a warm tribute as they displayed a retrospective exhibition of his paintings which was also shown throughout Canada.  In 2005, the Musée des Beaux Arts de Sherbrooke devoted an outstanding retrospective to the Plasticiens, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their Manifesto, thus bringing out the main stages of Jean-Paul Jérôme’s works. But he could not attend this celebration since he died in his seventy-sixth year, on August 14, 2004.