Born in 1957 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Kateri was influenced, and still is, by her late father Jacques Béchard.  She's a self-taught artist, who has been drawing from the day she was able to hold a piece of chalk to draw on a small blackboard that was sitting against the wall, on the kitchen floor, toddler height.

 

Over the years she exhibited at several locations from the Stewart Hall Art Gallery in Pointe-Claire, Quebec -- a show that was part of an exhibition of Inuit artifacts on loan from the McCord Museum of McGill University -- to the Green Door Gallery in Livingston, Montana.

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Her paintings are found in private collections in Canada and in the United States.

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To view some of her works, click here.

 

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