Megan Bertrand is a Catholic artist located in Abbeville, Louisiana, specializing in realistic portraits and religious works. Working mainly with compressed charcoal, her portraits are high in contrast and executed in a detailed, representational style. Meg’s religious pieces range from realistic portraits to iconographic depictions of various religious topics. Her passion is drawing and creating images of the Blessed Mother.

Discovering her gift early on, Meg started creating art and receiving instruction at the age of six, continuing her artistic training throughout high school and beyond, graduating from McNeese State University in 2002 with a B.S. in Visual Art with a concentration in photography.

After college she was privileged to work for renowned Louisiana photographer C.C. Lockwood. Especially in the creation of his book, Marsh Mission, a collaborative effort with another famous Louisiana artist, painter Rhea Gary. It was a true “once in a lifetime” experience.

In 2004 Meg married and went on to have 6 beautiful children (her greatest works to date.) Being a stay at home mom for 16 years enabled her to continue her lifelong passion for drawing, completing dozens of commissioned portraits, commissioned pieces, and also personal work and other pieces for charitable auctions.

In 2021, Meg began teaching Art at Vermilion Catholic, A Legacy of Mount Carmel where she continues to work to date.

Meg is constantly working on original art alongside her commissioned portraits in a bid to answer the call of Pope St. John Paul, II to artists to “Search for new epiphanies of beauty so that through their creative work as artists they may offer these gifts to the world”.