RAWSON LAKE REFLECTIONS

RAWSON LAKE REFLECTIONSDominik Modlinski is a Canadian landscape painter who immigrated to Canada at the age of 16 and studied painting and drawing at the Ontario College of Art. He developed a strong connection to the wilderness of Northern Ontario, later painting at the Algoma School of Landscape Arts, where he deepened his understanding of the Group of Seven tradition and the Canadian landscape. His practice is rooted in immersive fieldwork, often working directly on

the artist

he carved his first mask at the age of 13 and has since developed a practice that bridges contemporary expression with ancestral Kwakwaka’wakw traditions

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colonization

Painting texture from heavy canvas and some brush work

there were lots of orange tip butterflies

Quinn James is a Kwakwaka’wakw artist from the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island whose work is grounded in traditional Northwest Coast carving

embracing it as his most powerful form of expression

each piece reflects her mastery of colour

She always searches for those deeper treasures that exist beneath the surface

This results in highly tactile surfaces and it’s like looking at a landscape through emotion instead of through a camera

Terry McCue (1945–2024) was an Ojibway artist from Curve Lake First Nation in Ontario and a self-taught painter whose work reflects Indigenous perspectives on nature