Spotlight: John Sabourin, Linus Woods, and Janet Ripley Armstrong
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Inuit Gallery of Vancouver 120 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver, British Columbia V7M 0G7
The Inuit Gallery is pleased to spotlight the work of three artists:Dene carver, John Sabourin, Dakota/Ojibwa painter, Linus Woods, and Nunavut-based painter/print maker Janet Ripley Armstrong.
Working primarily in chlorite, a stone that appears jet black when polished, John Sabourin's carving is very strong and clean, with beautiful fluid lines. The new collection features examples of his composition works, such as Muskox Family, the bird spiral compositions, his lovely Animal Spiral, and single or small-figure groups, such as his Grizzly Bear or Struggling with Wolf.
Janet Ripley Armstrong is a new artist to the gallery. Janet has been living in the North for 42 years - first as a newspaper photographer/reporter in Yellowknife, then as teacher and artist in Nunavut. She works primarily in watercolour and mixed media, and aims to capture the beauty of the arctic landscape, its delicate tundra flowers and the sights of the north in her work.
We also have a newly arrived collection of paintings from Linus Woods, including some of his iconic horseback riders positioned deep in the landscape plane, as well as his newer works in which he places his animal subjects at the centre of the image allowing them to occupy a greater part of the overall canvas. Fittingly, these figures are still tied to the land, but the colours and paint handling are light and lyrical.