Doris Charest

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount

Doris’s love of painting started when a Houston neighbor took her to her first watercolor class and there, she fell in love with painting. As they say, the rest was history. Painting became a daily activity and exploring the different mediums became the challenge. Doris took classes from a variety of artists in the United States and Canada.

Occasionally travel slips in with her artwork. She was invited to be a guest artist in Québec at La Marée aux 1000 Vagues in Riviere du Loup. She also got a grant to be an ‘Artist in the Community’ where she got to travel all over Alberta as a guest artist. When she cannot travel, Doris lets her work travel for her. She has exhibited in the United States and all across Canada. Nature and the world around her inspires Doris. One of her paintings was part of a show at the Venice Biennale in 2017. Art has become a voyage of discovery and she follows it to see where it will bring her.

Art has brought a lot of joys and it continues. Her books covers are based on her original paintings.