[1] One of the first abstract painters in Eastern Canada,[2] the artist's body of work includes more than 4,000 paintings, 50 buildings, six poetry anthologies, and one novel.
[3] Savoie, who was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada (CM) in the 2010 Canadian honours for his contributions to painting, architecture, and literature,[3] participated in over thirty solo exhibits and as many group ones.
In 1950, Savoie earned his bachelor’s degree in arts from the Collège Saint-Joseph in Memramcook, New Brunswick, and went on to study architecture.
[4] In 1964, Roméo Savoie took a year-long trip to Europe and settled in Carvajal, Spain for three months to practice painting at the encouragement of a French painter.
He coordinated, designed and co-directed, with Lieutenant Governor Herménégilde Chiasson, the exhibition Évangéline, Mythe ou Réalité at the Festival International des Arts Contemporains in La Rochelle, France.