Nicole Milette, artist and teacher at UQÀM, PhD in architecture University of York, England, 1997.

After graduating in architecture from l'Université de Montréal, 1972, she practised architecture as a member of the Quebec Order of Architects. She mainly taught traditional and computer-assisted drawing. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts, UQÀM 1987, of which a third of the credits were obtained with Great Distinction from the Accademia Delle Belle Arti di Firenze. She presently teaches freehand sketching at École de design de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Her lectures on Alfred Parsons in link with English landscape history are still appreciated, like the ones given at the AA School of Architecture, London or at la Société d'horticulture de Sherbrooke and at the Montreal Garden Club.

In June 2012, at the Broadway Arts Festival, Worcestershire England, where Parsons and his good friend John Singer Sargent, painted together.  Nicole will present an illustrated talk on Alfred Parsons' art work production. Parsons was the subject of her York PhD thesis recently updated with  92 improved coloured illustrations. 

Précis of Nicole Milette's talk

In the above banner, Nicole is printing on japanese paper during the October 2011 Montreal event: Les journées de la culture.  The amaryllis on the right is a detail from her previous drawing on the lithographic stone shown on the left.