Louinès Mentor was born on November 15, 1936, in St. Louis de Sud, Haiti. He attended classes with the French Friars in Verrettes. In 1964, he first started painting, using Sapolin and a brush of goat hair attached to a quill or broom. His paintings of street scenes and religious subjects remind one of twelfth-century France's tapestries and stained glass windows. He is progressing and growing as a painter. Mentor usually paints Haitian colorful daily life. One of Mentor's later paintings, a rural scene, was chosen for the front and back covers of the March 1972 issue of the magazine, "Americas," a publication of the Organization of American States (OAS). His paintings belong to the collection of the American producer Jonathan Demme and of the Bryant University, Douglas and Judith Krupp Library in Smithfield, Rhode Island.