The Seahorse

Katerine Martin

Katerine Martin teaches French. With a bachelor’s degree in literary studies and secondary teaching, her goal has always been to help her students discover the necessity of literature for a society. Since childhood, she has prefered the tranquility of books to human’s agitation. Her favorite themes are memory, mental health, and human relationships. The Seahorse, beautifully illustrated by Mathilde Cinq-Mars, is her first book.

Mathilde Cinq-Mars

Born in Trois-Rivières, Mathilde Cinq-Mars graduated from the University of Strasbourg in visual arts. A freelance illustrator, she draws rosy-cheeked characters for several publishing houses (Mécanique générale, La montagne secrète, Druides, Planète rebelle, etc.) and Canadian magazines (l'Actualité, Caribou, Planete F, Canada History Magazine, etc.). She has also signed the visuals for numerous cultural events, including the TEDx conferences at the University of Strasbourg, the Festival of Sea Songs and the Long Weekend of Short Films in Trois-Rivieres. Since 2015, her illustrations have been exhibited, among others, at the Carrée d'Artistes gallery in New York, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Toronto as part of the Youth Solidarity Project, at the Seigneurie d'Anhaive in Namur with Illustration Québec and at the Cabinet Amateur in Paris. She lives and works in Trois-Rivières, surrounded by plants, old objects and her fast growing daughter.