Normand Chartier: Watercolor Artist, Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Artist & Author Normand Chartier and fans

Normand Chartier:
Artist, Author, Illustrator

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Normand Chartier is a Connecticut artist, who lives in the rural "Quiet Corner" of the state. He is an accomplished rising watercolorist and an internationally celebrated illustrator, specializing in children's literature.

His luminous impressionistic watercolor paintings have won numerous awards and have found their way into more than two hundred and fifty public and private collections around the entire country.

[Artist/author Normand Chartier and some fans]

The following original watercolor artwork is available for sale:

DOWN EAST BOOKS of Camden Maine has just published a 96 page volume on Normand titled My Maine, the Coastal Watercolors of Normand Chartier. It is a compendium of 90 of his works spanning the last two decades, reflecting his love of that region and of painting itself.

Career Highlights:

Internationally Celebrated Illustrator of 73 Children’s Books; Author of 3

Winner of 32 National and International Awards and Honors

Included in North Light Book’s THE VERY BEST of Children’s Book Illustration

Awarded The Gold Medallion Picture Book of the Year 1996

Picked for the New York Society of Illustrators Annual Show 3 Times

Included in 3-year International Goodwill Tour of Children’s Art from the USA

Clients Include:

Golden Books

Random House

Simon & Schuster

MacMillan New York & London

E.P. Dutton

Penguin

World’s Work Books-UK

Sesame Street Books

Houghton Mifflin

Little Brown

Henry Holt & Co.

Illustration Clients Include:

Johnson & Johnson

Campbell Soup

J. C Penney

Applause Inc.

Children’s TV Workshop

Muppets Inc.

Fisher-Price

Hasbro Inc

Rayovac Corp.

Tyco Toys

BARNEY -- The Lyons Group