TORNADO SHAMAN

TORNADO SHAMANJane 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

depicting the day to day activities of community life as well as traditional subjects and wildlife

Sure enough

Using techniques that build and erode surfaces with paint

I knew they were much larger than plains bison

blending Western contemporary art techniques with Cree cultural knowledge and lived experience

contemporary Canadian paintings that captures shifting light and a brilliant emotion

The Ebony wood pieces are the most time consuming of Neshka’s work

she creates visually dynamic compositions that move between abstraction and structure

a large trunk of a pine tree dominates the foreground on the left

” George Harris

Birds are often seen as messengers between the physical and spirit worlds

and mystery of the natural world