Background
Gamache, Claudette Theresa was born on December 9, 1941 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Raymond Alfred Cote and Yvette Marguerite Lavigne.
Gamache, Claudette Theresa was born on December 9, 1941 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Raymond Alfred Cote and Yvette Marguerite Lavigne.
Diploma, St. Anne's Nursing School, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1962. Bachelor of Fine Arts, University Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, 1984. Master of Arts, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985.
Registered Nurse Mount Sinai Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, 1984—1986. Expressive therapist Elmcrest Psychiatric Hospital, Portland, 1986—1987. Nurse clinician/expressive therapist, adolescent partial program New Britain General Hospital, 1987—1989.
Hospice nurse Visiting Nurse Association Group, Hartford, 1989—1993. Hospice manager Portsmouth Visiting Nurses, New Hampshire, 1994—1997. Artist Claudette Gamache Gallery, Bath, Maine, since 1997.
Pastel painting teacher Heartwood College Art, Kennebunk, Maine, 2000—2002, Chocolate Church Art Center, Bath, 2003. Visiting art teacher Wells Middle School, 2000. Independent pastel painting teacher, Bath, since 2004.
Speaker in field of hospice nursing, 1990—1997.
Member of American Art Therapy Association, Pastel Painters Maine (vice president 2006, president 2007-2008), Pastel Society of America.
Married Peter Paul Gamache, May 23, 1964. Children: Daniel, Raymond, Christopher.