Yvan Breton was born in Quebec city and has been interested in drawing since his childhood. Adolescent, he studied with Marius Dubois and with Lucienne Cornet. In 1980, in Mexico, Jesús Gallardo initiated him to lithograph. In 1995 he undertook a intensive drawing apprenticeship in France, Italy and Spain. More recently, in Montreal, he studied painting with Marcel Chabot and Irena Korosec (Atelier Bohemiarte). He continued his studies of drawing and painting with Eric Mannella and Allana Benham (Atelier de Brésoles). Since his return to Quebec city, he has continued to perfect his portrait studies at Pierre Lanoie's workshop and to follow his own program of drawing studies in his workshop and at Universtié Laval's Collection.

Graduate of Université Laval, Mr. Breton holds a Master's Degree in Architecture.  He collaborates on projects and  lectures on drawing at the faculty and teaches private and group drawing lessons. 

His particular interests are in the graphic representation of human /space relationships, in all their forms.  These include free hand or computer assisted drawing, sculpture and painting. 

His work has been presented as lecture material, demonstrations and in group exhibitions in Quebec City and in Montreal.

"I am passionate about drawing. All the forms of drawing or painting where one feels that the  character of the subject has merged with the author's personnality to aroused pleasant feelings; isomething that lodges itself in our memory and carries us to a dream. For me, to draw is to search the form that synthesizes reality, presents in relief its character, and saves it from time. Drawing invites us into the imaginary, into that which gives a kind of life.