Bernard Poulin

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Bernard Aimé Poulin (born 1945) is a Canadian visual artist and educator. He is a portrait painter, muralist, sculptor, author of five books on drawing and international lecturer of note. He is recognized for his official portraits of royalty (Prince William, Baron José de Vinck), a Canadian Prime Minister (Jean Chrétien) and Governors General (Roméo Leblanc, Jules Léger) as well as a Premier of Bermuda (Jennifer Meredith Smith).

His murals are primarily three dimensional and multimedia - incorporating wood, bronze, marble and acrylic.

Poulin is the author of seven books, the last five published on the subject of drawing. A trained academic and specialist in the area of special education he was the French representative of a group of teachers who founded a school for interned psychiatric patients in the 1970s. He also taught special education in several colleges and universities in Canada, and has written several articles on children and family dynamics and on various other topics related to creativity and special education.

His full time career in the visual arts began in 1978.

He is married to Canadian Senator Marie-Paule Poulin.