CARDINAL COLOUR - EAST

CARDINAL COLOUR - EASTJane Ash Poitras is one of Canadas most important contemporary Indigenous artists. Her work is immediately recognizable for its layered, symbolic, and deeply narrative style, blending Western contemporary art techniques with Cree cultural knowledge and lived experience. A defining feature of her artwork is complex layering. She combines paint, collage, photographs, text, and found objects. Poitras' works often resemble visual archives, stacked with

spirituality

and carvings that honor traditional Haida forms while embracing contemporary techniques

and recognized with China’s highest certification for art and craft technicians

John Macdonald is an accomplished Canadian artist whose abstract landscapes and impressionist portraits have been collected and exhibited nationally and internationally for over two decades

near the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory

Nunavut has been released since 1959 and features acclaimed graphic artists from the Arctic

untamed nature of the region

particularly her evocative and lifelike bears

Highly sought after by collectors and jewellery enthusiasts

and painting on location in backcountry huts and alpine lodges

is known for her striking acrylic paintings of wildlife

there was a lone male hanging in the exact spot I was hoping for when I arrived