Introducing the First Nations artists behind our collection of Northwest Coast Native art prints
Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977) was an artist of Ojibway descent from Temamgami, Ontario. He painted in a style heavily influenced by modern abstract painters. Chee Chee was renowned for his depictions of geese and other birds, calling them ‘creatures of the present’. He used flowing, graceful lines with minimal colour,...
Daphne Odjig (1919-2016) was a highly accomplished Ojibway artist from Manitoulin Island, Ontario. She experimented and worked with many different styles and media. Early in her career she was most influenced by post – impressionists such as Picasso, or Matisse. From there, she developed a style all her own fusing...
Born in 1954, John Laford is an Ojibway artist from Manitoulin Island, Ontario. He has thoroughly studied his culture and art at Algonquin College in Pembroke, Ontario. He also studied pottery in New Mexico and the old pictographs and rock paintings of his ancestors. Although he sees himself as a...
Mark Anthony Jacobson is a Woodland artist from Sioux Lookout, Ontario, now based in British Columbia, with more than 40 years of experience creating Indigenous art. A self-taught Aboriginal artist rooted in the Woodland Art Movement, his work features traditional Ojibway symbolism and distinctive x-ray design elements that express the...
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