Born in Dorion -Quebec in 1951. André Chatelain has worked with Madeleine Leonard Tremblay and Charles T.Garo.Creative classes with Louise Jalbert and drawing with Claudine Ascher along with training from The Academy of Realist Art, a private institution that teaches drawing and painting in the old-master tradition, have directed the artist to dedicate himself to oil technique on canvas applied in the old-master method of realist art. The artist has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions and is fully devoted to oil painting and drawing. His work is part of private collections throughout Canada, the United States and France.