Ghislaine Fauteux-Langlois, awarded several times, has designed and made trophies and many medals including the Québec Ministry of Culture's prestigious Québec Price, the Medal Denise-Pelletier (1981, 86, and 87), the Medal Marie-Victorin (1983-86) and the Medal Paul-Émile-Borduas (1980). In 1993, she participated in many solo and group exhibitions and presented her sculpted jewels.

Trained originally in studio art, Ghislaine Fauteux-Langlois carries on, in the mid 1970's, with her studies in goldsmith and jewellery. Inspired for many years by nature, the artist is now more interested by primitive art which she discovered during a stay in Western Africa, in particular the resources and beauty of African Art. As she observed the techniques of sculptors, makers of bronze and jewelers, she specifically developed a fascination for masks, tools and cult objects, due, she says, to symmetry, duality, and oppositions that are their characteristics.

Ghislaine Fauteaux-Langlois' jewels, designed from wax sculpted shapes and casted in bronze, silver or gold (lost-wax method), are inspired by stylistic and figurative elements of primitive art that she transposes into a personal search and for which she privileges movement, matter and vitality. Furthermore, she decorates her jewels with pearls, old agates, granite, amber that tone in with metal and intensify the sculpted work.

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