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These artists paint a wide variety of Native Artwork. You might just find that perfect piece of artwork you have been looking for whether it be an original painting, a limited edition giclee or a bronze sculpture! Canada has many talented artists, I hope you enjoy the many we have listed here in our art gallery. Stay tuned as Art In Canada will be creating more artists websites in the near future focusing on artists in each province. The artists listed in this art gallery do exceptional work in watercolors, oil paintings, acrylic paintings, pastel art, pencil art, charcoal, bronze sculpture, pottery, and much more! Several artists offer art workshops and art lessons!

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Joanne Victoria Moore

Audrey Nanimahoo

Natalie Rostad Desjarlais

Carl Shinkaruk

Dennis Weber

Michele Zarb

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Rocky Barstad

Being Native and raised in the West, Rocky draws on his heritage for inspiration. Through the Scottsdale Arizona Artist School he has studied and traveled with many world class working artists.
He enjoys sharing this knowledge by teaching classes. He works in a variety of mediums, oil and pastel painting, bronze sculpture, mural painting and artifact replicas.
With the opening of Two Feathers Gallery in 1996 in High River Alberta, Rocky created a showcase of artworks from across North America.
A member of the Indian Arts and Crafts Association, Two Feathers Gallery promotes Native arts…Native made.

"Helping To Keep The Spirit Strong"

Kent Burles

I was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1955 moving at the age of nine to Montreal. From filling every available page with doodles at the age of two, my parents shared encouraging words and enrolled me in Art classes at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. I'll never forget the image of the aged Arthur Lismer visiting our class! My interest in art lead me to complete my Art History degree at McGill University.
Common in all my work, is a love of costume, regalia, extraordinary faces and the souls behind those faces. The pages displayed here illustrate my love of visual storytelling and my fascination with the mystery of past realities. The lives of every human being are shot through with the possiblities and limitations that those past realities imply. I can only hope that I can express even a portion of what that might mean.

Ritch Gaiti

Ritch Gaiti's ethereal paintings commemorate the west- a horse runs free on the open range; a buffalo oversees the plains that he rules; a proud people enjoy a rich culture and a oneness with the land. The paintings are about change, evolution, and extinction-something emerges, something disappears. Each represents the spirit of a time long gone.

"My goal is to put the viewer, not only in another time and place, but also in the subject's heart"

You can view all of Ritch Gaiti's art on his website www.gaiti.com

Patricia Guzmán

I love to paint animals such as horses, dogs and wild ones; but not only animals, also portraits of different type of people, of different culture.
I think there is always something to learn about painting; to me books are my best teachers because they don't influence my vision that much. They teach me about technique, about painters' lifes, etc., but they don't tell me how a thing must be because we all see life and painting in a different way, what I think and feel cannot be tought. As a painter I believe to seek for the truth, to paint themes that have something special, that makes me shake, not for money or not to produce as an assembly line.

Clarence Kapay

Imagine the scent of freshly fallen rain and a brilliantly refracted rainbow cascading down on an Indian village in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Perhaps you can hear an earthshattering crack of lightning as it sizzles across a spattered palette of color, culminating in the formation of a majestic warrior or a bald eagle. Or maybe you can feel the warmth as the darting flames of a campfire illuminate a buffalo hide teepee while directly above, the multi-colored, pulsating columns of light known as the aurora borealis dance in the heavens. These enchanting images remain imaginary until they’re brought to life by the paint brush of Plains Cree artist Clarence Kapay.

Doug Levitt

Doug Levitt has devoted himself full-time to fine art, oil paintings and graphite drawings being his preferred mediums. His historical works seek to preserve moments from the native North American Indian way of life and to explore themes of the West. These graphite drawings and oil paintings reflect Doug's passion for authentic detail as well as drama and texture. Doug's contemporary works, comprising mainly portraiture in oils, are compelling human studies characterized by skillful evocation of light and shadow, texture and detail.
His paintings are gaining wide attention for an artist still young in his career. Top collectors have bought his works and his paintings are in collections as far away as Australia. He has received invitations to attend several prominent exhibitions in Canada and the United States in 2004.

Val Moker

Canadian artist Val Moker's strong suit is seen in her attention to detail, displaying in macros of nature's flora and interaction of people in various settings. Her compositions capture atmosphere, character and emotion, resulting in harmonious and crisp compositions that hold the viewer's focus, a true compliment to her ability. "I have been blessed with the privilege to create. This is something that I have chosen not to take for granted. I am constantly researching, visualizing and then composing pictures in my mind, so that when it comes time to place my brush to canvas or paper, it is a channeling of a vision I've already created. Feelings, thoughts, beliefs, atmosphere . . . these are some of the ingredients that go into the stories that are told in my paintings. Am I looking at the window or through the window?"

Joanne Victoria Moore

Aboriginal artist Joanne Victoria Moore was born in Toronto, Ontario on December 30th, 1956. Growing up in the city, Joanne was not able to identify with her native roots and culture until later in life. In 1993, after the death of her grandmother, Joanne began sharing with her mother Joan Irene Moore a journey of healing and reconnection to their native heritage.
Joanne's journey has taken her back to Northern Ontario, the birthplace of her grandparents, and the Shawanigaw Reserve where her grandmother Amanda Desmaison grew up as a child and later as a young woman began to paint the picturesque landscapes of the north.
Today Joanne Victoria Moore is a Member of the Art On Main artist collective in North Bay Ontario. Her work is currently exhibited at the Capitol Centre and the Art On Main Gallery in North Bay Ontario.

Audrey Nanimahoo

I knew I found my calling in life when the first time that I picked up a piece of stone and began to carve the surface of it. There was something far beyond what I could explain. Something told me that the “Creator” had given me my gift for it felt right and it felt powerful. I will cherish, and be eternally grateful for this gift that was given so freely. That feeling has never left me, when I begin to carve, it’s like the “Creator” is continuing to guide me. My openness – my focus – is almost like a trance I listen to what the stone is saying to me, not in words, but with images that shows me what to carve and where. In this manner, I create unique and original works of art. I get a feeling of overwhelming happiness and excitement when a piece is finished. Then, I can see that I am bringing each piece of stone to life… as though it will soon breathe on its own.

Natalie Rostad Desjarlais

Canadian artist Natalie Desjarlais works exclusively with nature, specializing in stone that has been shaped by the elements, wind and time. Primarily an art form of spirituality and interpretation, the stones Natalie has worked with become singular art pieces, or collections of related works. Natalie uses her own carefully prepared paint that she makes out of crushed rock and oxides to coax the already present images from the stone. The content of the paint binds permanently to the surface, becoming part of the stone and is often difficult to distinguish from the actual stone. Powerful imagery is only surpassed by the interpretive spirit of the stone, with healing, balance and wisdom of nature conveyed through the stone to Natalie's messages that are included.

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