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Each original painting has a unique story that accompanies the work.

Click on the image to enlarge and read the story.

The Breath of Growth
Story: The women always use kind words when they harvest the spring medicines. They give thanks for the abundance of the forest and for the generosity of the land.
Ephemerals whisper to the gathering women, sharing their medicine secrets, grateful to be of service in their short lives.

As the women take the plants in gentle hands, they send their breath to the young shoots left behind. They share with plants the essence of the women who love and respect them so future generations will always know one another in the forest.

Watercolour on 10" synthetic round,
$180.00 unframed

Gold Medal Winner
Story: She was wild, free and fast enough that the sun could barely catch her. She lived her life on the open grasslands, plagued by the relentless pursuit of the two-leggeds who would readily steal her freedom. She knew the Hoodoos and smelled the bones of ancient beings laying still in the earth beneath her feet.

Ink on synthetic paper
20x40"
$540.00 unframed

Boreal Bachelor
Story: Boreal winters are unforgiving and harsh for all living things, but the trees give shelter and sustenance to the world. They breathe for our Mother the Earth, and cool the ground when the scorch of the sun bakes the stones. Our world would be less without them, and their existence is less because of us. We must protect what the Earth needs. She is our only home, our refuge in this place among the vast and cold darkness beyond.

Ink on synthetic paper
$240.00 unframed

Fast Red Dog Story: He was fire and speed in his better days, unsurpassed on the stretch and with boundless energy coiled into ropes of muscle. He was an old dog now, spending his days sleeping in the warmth of the spring sun, dreaming and running through bright memories of the chase. 20x36 Ink on synthetic paper $480.00 unframed

Energy, nature of life, aging, planet food, spirit journey, scenery, earth, evolution

The Land
Story:
She looked out over the land she loved, whispering her gratitude to a departing crow, grateful for his brief company. Her home was the home where the rocks and the sun created shimmering spirits dancing over the ground. The sky and the wind painted pictures of each other over the river that loved her, bathed her and cradled her tears. This would always be her home. Mixed media on synthetic paper 10x20"
$280.00 unframed

single tree with beautiful flowing leaf vines, roots visible, The Mitochondial Contact
Story: The Earth has a contract with life and it stipulates that all living things must return home. We are born, we live and we leave, and no matter what contracts we make in our life, the Mitochondrial Contract is the one our bodies have signed, and the only one that can truly be honored as a human being indebted to the Earth.

10x20" watercolour on synthetic paper
$185.00 unframed

Wind in His Hair. Framed horse head. Story: He had lived a long life filled with wide prairies, ancient stone monoliths, fine grazing, and the passing of time. That life lived in his hair as so many memories.

He was old now, tired now, and his spirit began the slow release of the life he'd lived. He had been born free, had run free, and would leave the world never knowing the touch of a hand, the taste of metal or the weight of a rider. It was as it should be for a thing so beautifully and irreversibly wild.

Mixed media on paper
27.5 x 23”

Conservation framing,

Non-glare glass, acid free matting.

Framed: $695
Original painting artwork for sale by Indigenous artist Colleen Gray. Ontario Canada

Boreal Storm. Story: We will never know what conversations take place between the sun, the storm and the land. Perhaps it is not for us to know, but only to feel.

17x14"
Framed: Conservation framing, non-glare acrylic, acid free double matting, bronze metallic crosshatch frame.

Price: $340.00 Framed
Original painting for sale by artist Colleen Gray. made in Canada

Healer's Robe. Story: The robe was comforting. It had been made from the softest hide, adorned inside with ancient markings, symbols in ochre. It smelled like smoke and bear root. It smelled like strength, its weight took her pain. It was the Holy Man's robe. She must be very sick.

The robe held her in the embrace of her Ancestors, and she stayed in the dream protected by the whispering of an ancient language she had never heard before.

She danced in the beautiful robe with the strange symbols and told her story to the sun, grateful for her life.

For people who survive the ravages of cancer. May you always know the pleasure of its absence.

Watercolour on Arches coldpress paper

Framed: Conservation framing/acid-free matting, non-glare glass.

Price: $550.00
Original painting for sale by Indigenous artist Colleen Gray.

First Language. Story: We are faceless to the Earth. She does not care for the colour of our skin but rather for the heart that beats within us. When it begins, she listens and knows where to send her love. From the moment of the first beat, our hearts speak her language until we can speak no more.
She has given us life, so we might learn how to poison her blood. She taught us how to take and by our own hand, we have learned well.

We have lost our original heart language and substituted it with pale efforts and half measures. We must try harder to connect to the core understanding that creation puts as much effort into making a bird as it does in making a human; we are no more or no less than the extension of a greater heartbeat.

Mixed media on Arches coldpress paper
Framing: Conservation framing/acid free matting, non-glare acrylic glass.

Price: $725.00
For sale direct by Indigenous artist Colleen Gray. Ontario Canada

Red Thunderbird Woman. Story: Red Thunderbird Woman visits the edge of the Veil between her world and the world of the Creator's children. Her heart carried a tenderness for the two-leggeds. At the camp, an old woman blows soft breath into the ashes of a cooking fire sending sparks into the wood, catching the pitch. She hears the telltale crackle and feeds the hungry little fire dry needles and twigs - an easy build for weak fingers. She nodded to the fire in gratitude to Red Thunderbird Woman for breathing into her fire.
Old Woman sensed the ache of her man's bones as he slept just beyond the fire wrapped in holey blankets mended by skilled fingers. Old woman sighed and sent healing thoughts across the fire to his bed. Red Thunderbird Woman saw an opportunity and breathed into the old woman as she sighed her prayer. The healing warmth of the Thunderbird that had been gifted to the old woman, who now gifted it to the old man on the breath of love. This was good. Red Thunderbird Woman would tell the story to her sisters.

Watercolour on Arches coldpress paper

Framed: Conservation framing/acid free matting, non-glare acrylic glass.

Price: $685.00
Original painting for sale by Indigenous artist Colleen Gray. Painted in Canada.

Story: Algonquin Park is home to many cottages. The land will return to the Nations who have always called this place home. Buildings will vanish. The land will return to its original state, devoid of human influence, silent and serene. The ancient waters will move along as they always have, never taking notice of the new change in ownership.

Watercolour on synthetic paper

Framing: Conservation framing/acid-free matting, non-glare glass.

Price: $395.00 [Framed]
For sale direct from Indigenous artist Colleen Gray. Ontario Canada

Story: They are the last line of defense that stands between an insatiable hunger and what we love and call our own. Those who stand at the mouth of the fire are warriors of impressive courage willing to do what so many cannot. What thoughts do they think when a wall of water rises up to quell the hungry fire that would consume them? We are grateful.

Watercolour on synthetic paper.

Framing: Conservation framing, acid free matting/non-glare glass.

Price: $225.00 FRAMED
Artwork for sale by artist Colleen Gray. Ontario Canada

Framed painting of earth as it would be from view from space. Painted by Indigenous artist Colleen Gray, Ontario Canada. For sale by artist.

Story: The night cares nothing for the weakness of boats and men. A cauldron of light and wind stirs the ink and bones of the violent sea and pity is vanquished to daggers of froth beneath the glowing dance of an apathetic sky.

17x17”

Watercolour on black synthetic paper

Framed: Conservation circular framing/non-glare glass
Price: $440.00 FRAMED
Original artwork painting by Indigenous artist Colleen Gray.

Story: The Eagle Helper watches over the world, bringing us messages from our loved ones who live in a world beyond our understanding. A spirit of the Red Squirrel Clan discusses recent gathered prayers with 13 Grandmothers. They talk between the rise of a new sun and the set of the next moon. Eagle listens to their council long into the night.

17.5 x 17.5"

Synthetic paper round

Conservation framing/non-glare glass

$475.00
Indigenous artwork original by Colleen Gray. Ontario Canada

Story: The storm goes quiet. The spirit of an ancient buffalo looks between the veils of this world into a world beyond ours. Grandmother Moon sends her soft light like gossamer whispers and guides him back to his ancestral home.

26x18”
Watercolour on synthetic paper

Conservation framing, non-glare glass

Framed: $555.00
Original artwork for sale by Indigenous artist Colleen Gray.

Story: The beauty of the Grandmother medicine is universal- there are many moons and vast knowledge if we open our hearts and minds to it.

Mixed Media on Watercolour Paper

Framed
Size: 24x36" Conservation framing, non-glare glass

$2,300.00
Original artwork for sale by Indigenous artist Colleen Gray.

Story: With the darkening of the sky, Grandmother Moon begins her journey across the horizon. She walks with the 4 Moons Pony and when her body, heavy with prayers and healing, becomes too weak, the Four Moons Pony will carry her to the sky and back home again with the rising of Grandfather Sun.

17x14 Marker and watercolour on paper

Framed $675.00
Original artwork for sale by Indigenous artist Colleen Gray. Ontario Canada

This is Only a Test. Contemporary Indigenous painting by Colleen Gray.

My Mountain Home - 16x20" by Colleen Gray

Story: They were together always, riding the storm winds next to each other. They were certain that one heart would always know where the other heart was no matter how much the sea raged beneath their love.

Ink on synthetic paper

Framed
26x12" Conservation framing, non-glare glass, acid free matting.

$475.00
Original artwork for sale by artist Colleen Gray. Ontario Canada

Story: They were brothers and the horses were their family. The time had come to ask the Horse Nation to bring the people a Horse Dance Ceremony. They fasted in the caves beneath sacred stars. At night while sky ponies listened, they recounted ancient stories of good hunts, gentle winters, and the powerful friendship between the horse and the people who loved them.
(Inspired by my Elders’ journey as a ceremonial Road Man)

24x36" Ink, watercolour, acrylic on synthetic paper

Framed $2,600.00
The Horse Ceremony. Original artwork for sale by Indigenous Artist Colleen Gray.

Meet Me on the Grasslands at Sunrise - Alcohol and ink on synthetic paper. by Colleen Gray

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