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CAnAdiAn Art Prints - meet the Artists
Betty Albert
Betty Albert-Licenz was adopted and raised by French Canadian parents in Northern Ontario. She spent time on Vancouver Island where both of her interests in art and spirituality surfaced. During the next twenty years, she worked with pen and ink, and improved her artistic techniques.
Circumstances eventually brought her back to her Native American father, discovering her birthright as a Cree. Betty then began an art business with her father called “Wabimeguil Art Studio”.
Fred Anderson Jr.
Fred was born 1966 at Rivers Inlet, BC, a village situated just east of the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Fred belongs to Heiltsuk/Wuikinuxv Nation Tribe. “Traditional art has always been a part of my life and is now a major tool in my healing journey. I believe that success and happiness is something you attract by the person you become along the way. My art is a direct relection or manifestation of my spirit. All of my designs have a story incorporating culture with spiritual development; it encourages those to reach deeper and gain more from life.”
Ray Baptiste
Ray Baptiste was born an Ojibway in Berens River, Manitoba, a northern reserve, and now resides in Vancouver, BC. He grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was educated at Kildonan East Regional in Winnipeg, where he began studying and practicing art.
Ray says “Everyone sees his artwork differently, as he leaves much to your own imagination. This way he feels you can become part of his experience in the Far North.”
Rick Beaver
Rick Beaver was born in 1948 on the Alderville Indian Reserve on Rice Lake, Southern Ontario. A degree in wildlife biology is a strong inluence on his painting which he began full-time in 1981. His art evokes an emotional response which harks back to the origin of earth’s people.
Hubert V. Billy
I was born in 1972 in the heart of British Columbia and spent most of my young life in the beautiful little town of Spences Bridge and in downtown Vancouver. I irst picked up a pencil for my irst drawing that hung on Auntie Bunnie’s fridge when I was eight. I am mostly self-taught with some instruction in high school art classes. I grew up in a large family with humble beginnings and started my career selling artwork page-by-page from my sketchbook.
Kirk Brant
Kirk Brant was born in Toronto, Canada in 1969. He is a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and currently lives in Ottawa, Canada. Brant creates scenes from his personal life and, as an avid outdoorsman; much of his life in the bush is captured in his artwork. Hunting and ishing are his favorite subjects for his art and he uses mixed media elements, which involve tissue paper and acrylic paints in his creations.