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CAnAdiAn Art Prints - meet the Artists Pauline Bull
Pauline Michele Bull is an Interior Salish native, and is a band member of Seton Lake, BC, Lillooet nation. Her crest follows her father’s clan which is, “Great Blue Heron”. Her mother is from Nakia, which is across the river from Lytton, BC, the meaning of Lytton is Kumsheen, and her mother’s nation is Nlaka’pamux, which means, “People of the River”. Her father is from Seton Lake, BC, also known as, “Lh7us” which means, “Coming to Head of the Lake” in St’át’imc native language.
Andrew Mark Dexel
A young artist from the Nlakapamux Nation. His painting style mixes graffiti style with Coast Salish design creating figurative and abstract images that speak to resistance and renewal. His beginnings as a graffiti artist is central to his style and since his switch from walls to canvas three years ago he has brought this energy from the streets into his paintings.
Shelly Fletcher
Shelly Fletcher is a Canadian Aboriginal stone carver, painter, and visual artist, descendant from the Missanabie Cree First Nation. Her people had long ago settled and lived in a vast expanse between Hudson’s Bay and The Great Lakes. Born in London Ontario, she studied fine arts at the Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design, Her work is influenced by her Cree Ancestry, the legends and stories of her people, and the life-ways of Aboriginal Peoples across Turtle Island.
Kurt Flett
Kurt Flett is an Oji-Cree (Swampy Cree) from Garden Hill First Nation in the Island Lake region of northern Manitoba. Born in 1956, and raised at Garden Hill, Manitoba, he began drawing with pencil crayons around age 11 and was influenced by such artists as Jackson Beardy and Stanley Monias.
His work is exhibited across Canada, Europe and the United States, and was strongly influenced by Woodland Cree artistic traditions. A red sun was a characteristic element of his works.
ffDorothy Francis
Dorothy Francis was born in Dinsmore, Saskatchewan in 1923. A childhood passion for drawing and painting developed into a full time career as an artist, whose work is now in demand throughout the world.
She is best known for her portraits of the Inuit people, whom she has studied extensively, to ensure that details in dress and artifacts are correct. Her compositions radiate a light-hearted happiness and often feature children.
fLon French
Lon French is a Haida artist who lives in Victoria. He was born in Terrace, BC in 1966 and is from the Old Massett Village Council on Haida Gwaii and belongs to the Raven Clan. He is a new artist who has been doing his paintings for just over a year. Within that year he has come a long way and now has over 50 paintings to his name and loves his work.
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