“Portraits of Truth“, acrylic/canvas/plywood

The first painting, 11” x 15” on canvas, depicts the abuse suffered by indigenous women and April’s vision of all the components of help and abuse rolled into one picture.

The other 3 paintings, 10” x 8” are on plywood or watercolour paper and are April’s vision of the Algonquin people before the white man arrived.

They contain elements sacred to the Algonquin culture such as water, land, trees, birds, animals and Algonquin people.

Three of the four pieces are portraits of Indigenous ancestors in a traditional setting including the cultural aspects of the Algonquins. They capture the Truth of the people before colonization. The fourth piece is a painted scene of some of the horrors that indigenous women had to suffer during colonization and assimilation of Indigenous people. A before and after look at Indigenous truth.