Where have I been?
Well for the most part still living at home on Manitoulin Island. Living more and more days with the land off on many adventures and explorations with my husband and family.
Last year I took on some new art projects, some short term and some long term. The short term I have been able to share with you all. For the long term I hope the anticipation is well worth the wait when they are released and you are able to see them in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
It has been a refreshing deep dive back into creating under deadlines. I often speak about the passion of being an artist and the realm of being a creative type person. So I reflect on these artistic request and artistic opportunities when they present themselves.
I wonder what will be asked of me and what will be asked of my time, energy, and passion in artwork creative times.
Along with these requests some times there are amazing connections, conversations, and friendships generated, that accompany the artmaking process. Then there are times that in the momentum on process and deadline product commitments, sometimes the connections and relationships with artwork requests becomes tested.
I love what I do, I vowed to always have passion for creating art, because that’s who I am.
Traveling, I have also taken up more travel times to the land and to visit with friends and family. To share in storytelling, adventures and to become inspired by the paths we cross all the time on our journeys.
And, with every possible up days there are the down days. Health and wellness took a toll on me in early 2023, and I had to process and take my time back to feeling like myself again.
The vital component to this was returning back to the land when feeling depleted of time, energy, and health. My husband and I were getting ready for our fall time harvest and camp stay.
Spending time at moose camp, later we refer to as Eureka, Miwe’e Camp. We spent out time preparing for camp, monitoring animals and species, harvesting plants, harvesting medicines, harvesting food sources, building structures, exploring the land, exploring the waters, and then harvesting our bull moose. Spending over 3 month in the wilderness of norther Ontario. It has become the pivioting point of our year that we plan around. The time spent on the land has greatly impacted our ways of being, our ways of creating, our ways of realignment in health, and how deeply rooting it becomes on your whole being.
Then we found our times shifting to prepare for winter, still monitoring the animals, plants, land, water and planning our times and schedules accordingly. We find those surges to create and produce artwork.
I have been working behind the scenes on many illustrations, drawings, paintings and in the works for future exhibitions. I love how this time around there seems to be more balance in how I approach art than ever before. I know the role art plays and the way art is factored in to society, but I also know there needs to be continual nourishment to what drives my artistic passions, and simply put that is and has always been my ability to go out and explore the land the waters and take up the experiences.
So in a long story short
2024 is continued work on creative projects. I am making way for new projects to emerge and looking to sell the remaining lot of my artworks found here within the website.
One of the parts of being an artist is letting go of the creations you have created into this world.
“2013 Powwow Dancer Series” is currently up for sale and I have make initial discounted offers to my own home nation and the sister nations to have 1st offer and 2nd offer. Hope to keep them close but I will go into the next phase of opportunity of external purchase of the Dancer Series.
8 Powwow styles dancers represented unstretched canvas by oil paint – this series has been exhibited numerous times Ontario and I am looking to retire the series to sell, so that I can make way for new artworks. If you are interest please feel free to contact me if willing to purchase the series.
Stay tuned for more 🙂