Willisville Moutain Project Artist Christi Belcourt

Christi Belcourt

Christi Belcourt (Métis) is a Visual arts living in Whitefish Falls, Ontario. Christi’s highly recognizable work is well known throughout the Canadian Métis community. She is most well known for her flower beadwork acrylic paintings inspired by historical Métis and First Nations beadwork artists. Her most recent work involving abstract landscapes, maps, and Aboriginal place names has garnered Belcourt favourable reviews by critics. Christi has received numerous grants and awards and her work can be found within the permanent collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, The Gabriel Dumont Institute and the Indian and Inuit Art Collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

"Read like a story, the painting is a mneumonic device intended as a reminder to my daughter and myself on what to remember in our prayers. Praying is personal, and I don't believe there is a right or a wrong way. I thank the Creator, Grandfather Sun, Grandmother Moom, Mother Earth and all the waters for giving us life. I thank the plants, our first family, for giving the earth life and sustaining all the creatures, including us, on this earth. I thank them for the inspiration they give my for may paintings and what they have taught me about life. I thank all the creatures, the animals, the birds, water creatures and insects for keeping the earth moving and for giving of themselves so we can live. I pray for human beings that we will be kind and generous towards each other. I thank the spirits of the four directions for giving us gifts. And I thank the Creator for this precious and rare gift of life that we've been given. Miigwetch."