Louisane Saint Fleurant was born in 1924 in Petit-Trou-de-Nippe, Haiti, and died on June 1, 2005. She was the ‘godmother” of the Saint-Soleil School of Painters, created under the direction of Tiga Garoute and Maude Robbart, promoters of this movement in Soisson-la-Montagne (about fifty kilometers from Port-au-Prince). From 1978 on, she participated in several exhibitions in foreign countries and Haiti. She is one of the most remarkable artists in this new school, devoid of all extraneous influence, and has lent a new image to Haitian painting. As André Malraux remarked in regard to this school, “It is impossible to determine where it came from or to whom it speaks.” In L’Intemporel Malraux provides a noteworthy analysis of this new school, quoting Louisanne Saint-Fleurant in confirmation of this astonishing feature: “It is through Voodoo that we would be best approach the creative process of the Saint-Soleil painters. In the final analysis, the painter paints because he or she is “mounted” (possessed) and paints what the Loa (voodoo god) wants.” (La Peinture Haitienne/Haitian Arts by Marie-José Nadal & Gérald Bloncourt, Editions Nathan, Paris 1986, pp.193)