Jeanne Thomarat

Jeanne Aline Thomarat (1893 – 1985) was a French-born Canadian outsider artist who lived and worked in Saskatchewan. She is known for her landscape paintings.

Life Jeanne Aline Thomarat was born in Lyon in 1893 and came to Canada in 1905, when she was twelve. She lived near Hafford, Saskatchewan. She returned briefly to France in 1921 where she married Armand Thomarat, a handyman. The couple settled at Duck Lake. She later moved to Rosthern, where she died in 1985.

Recognition Thomarat's work was included in the first major exhibit of Saskatchewan folk art, Grassroots Saskatchewan, curated by David Thauberger in 1976. She was featured in a CBC television documentary on folk art in 1979.