Normand Chartier is a Connecticut artist who lives in the rural "Quiet Corner" of the state. He is an accomplished rising watercolorist and a nationally celebrated children's book illustrator. His luminous impressionistic watercolor paintings have won numerous awards and have found their way into more than 250 public and private collections around the country. He is an elected artist member of the Mystic Art Association (Mystic, Connecticut) and is a past member of the Northeastern Connecticut Art Guild and the Boothbay (Maine) Region Art Foundation.