<p>From the days of her youth, creativity was present; Anne-Marie Chagnon drew, wrote poems, sculpted, played of a musical instrument. </p>

<p>Her parents encouraged her, her two sisters and brother to use and give free rein to their imagination, as much in mechanical ways as with freedom of expression.</p>

<p>Jewellery arrived in her life from the moment when, as a young girl, she wanted to wear some. In Grade 5 of elementary school, she was wearing earrings she had welded herself! </p>