Deirdre Kelly, The Globe and Mail, October 20, 1990

...seated woman shows her to be in command of the little gesture with a big punch.

Steptext Magazine, Fall 1992

...seated woman, a work that conveyed emotions and fragility, was terrifyingly humane, performed from the confines of a chair....Chartier twitched, tensed and contorted herself in movements that played on the mind's fears, suggesting images of aging and loss of self-control.