BIOGRAPHY
Biography of Clémence St. Laurent:
Québec artist Clémence St. Laurent started drawing before going to school, then took some drawing lessons at school from age 10, and started painting at age 12.
Although she subsequently attended the École des Arts & Métiers in Rouyn, Quebec, for six years (1954-1960) with Helmuth Nickmann, she considers herself a self-taught artist, and a traditionalist in her technique and inspiration.
From 1947, Mrs. St. Laurent spent some thirty years in Noranda, in the northwest part of Québec, where she had the opportunity of meeting various visiting industry executives, artists, intellectuals or high government officials, even hosting some of them. Many of those guests returned home with one of Mrs. St. Laurent’s paintings.
In the 1980s, Clémence St. Laurent moved to Mississauga, Ontario, then to Quebec City, where she died on January 19, 2016, two days shy of her 93th birthday.
Québec artist Clémence St. Laurent started drawing before going to school, then took some drawing lessons at school from age 10, and started painting at age 12.
Although she subsequently attended the École des Arts & Métiers in Rouyn, Quebec, for six years (1954-1960) with Helmuth Nickmann, she considers herself a self-taught artist, and a traditionalist in her technique and inspiration.
From 1947, Mrs. St. Laurent spent some thirty years in Noranda, in the northwest part of Québec, where she had the opportunity of meeting various visiting industry executives, artists, intellectuals or high government officials, even hosting some of them. Many of those guests returned home with one of Mrs. St. Laurent’s paintings.
In the 1980s, Clémence St. Laurent moved to Mississauga, Ontario, then to Quebec City, where she died on January 19, 2016, two days shy of her 93th birthday.
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| Mrs St. Laurent in her painting studio, Mississauga |