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Randall Charboneau -- Waywaymegwun
First Nations Traditional Artist
Hamilton, ON
Email: eleanor.binder@gmail.com |
WELCOME TO RANDALL CHARBONEAU / WAYWAYMEGWUN (Traditional Native Name)
FIRST NATIONS TRADITIONAL ARTIST
My work has developed through Native traditional / spiritual teachings (our way of life). To reach within and dance amongst the spirit world, to live a life I have been chosen to do is the root to my expression that I explore within visual arts.
Earlier in my life I started drawing, which lead to painting. I have been painting for a few years. My medium is acrylic paint and canvas. I find that using acrylic paint allows me to flow with my thought, (for acrylics dry fast) and allows me to shade down and present an image in which I search for.
I would say that I am influenced by the woodlands traditional style (Ojibwa style) in which some of my techniques are related.
Painting from a spiritual aspect drains me tremendously but yet each painting is a teaching and that is a part of my growth and development through traditional healing.
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 Bear Spirit
Acrylic on Canvas
18in width by 24in height
My paintings allow me to show those that a simple element in life, a symbolic element speaks of adventure crossed between spirituality or reality (or both). For the fact that creation was created for all to see.
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 Fallen Feather
Acrylic on Canvas
18in width by 24in height
Spiritual freedom lies within my heart, my mind, my body and visual arts is a creative process that allows me to teach myself 'what is it that I live by and
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 Feather Being
Acrylic on Canvas
18in width X 24in height
To see beyond, to see through the elements before me, teaches me of vision. So as I walk through this life I live within that 'forever
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 Honouring Women
Acrylic on Canvas
4 feet in diameter
Painting within a spiritual realm that transfers itself on to canvas is a reflection of my inner spirit and the freedom to soar beyond the norms of what others may capture through out their lives. |
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 In The Land Of The Pipes
Acrylic on Canvas
22in width by 28in height
Many of my paintings reflect the path I walk and the things I have learned along the way, and the many hours I have spent with elders (young and old), listening to the stories, the way of the people.
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 Speakers of Truth
Acrylic on Canvas
18in width by 24in height
The many different ceremonies I have participated in have allowed me to travel beyond the physical world to that forever vision. |
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 Spirit of Life
Acrylic on Canvas
18in width by 24in height
It is my hope that when someone views my art that they come away with a sense of wonder of what their life holds and what was my purpose of painting what I have painted. What captures your spirit, your vision?
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 Spirit Talker
Acrylic on Canvas
16in width by 20in height
Painting within a spiritual realm that transfers itself on to canvas is a reflection of my inner spirit and the freedom to soar beyond the norms of what others may capture through out their lives. |
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 Two Sides of Life
Acrylic on Canvas
20in width by 20in height
My paintings allow me to show those that a simple element in life, a symbolic element speaks of adventure crossed between spirituality or reality (or both). For the fact that creation was created for all to see.
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Copyright Randall Charboneau © 2007
All rights reserved.
Revised: July 02, 2007
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