FROG 52 sweeping strokes create texture and

sweeping strokes create texture and relief on the surface and paint is layered and scraped

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but also to reflect the honesty to the raw materials and their beauty

Jane Ash Poitras is one of Canada’s most important contemporary Indigenous artists

British Columbia–based artist whose richly layered paintings reflect a lifetime of creative exploration and intellectual depth

FROG 52 sweeping strokes create texture andIn Haida stories we had frogs until a bear decided to taste one, he was spit out and when he went back to tell the other frogs about the horrendous event, the frogs left Haida Gwaii. Eventually some returned as you can still find them there in certain places. The frog was considered lucky and also there was a belief that it would help keep poles standing when carved on them. Haida artist Corey Bulpitt, a member of the Naikun Raven Clan, is renowned