Frank Polson Original Artwork- Frameless

Frank Polson was born in Ville-Marie, Temiscamingue, in 1952 and is a member of the Algonquin Long Point First Nations community (Winneway, Temiscamingue).
He has worked at developing his style in the medium of acrylics. Frank is self-taught who produces works of unique beauty, in the Woodland style, which is relevant to today and in accordance with is Heritage.
He has rekindled his memories of many pleasurable and educational seasons spent on the trap-line with his father and has tried captured those wonderful memories on canvas among the glorious sunsets and sounds and feelings on the wilderness' days and nights. From an early age, art soon became my refuge, taking comfort in
drawing the beaver and moose seen along the shore when my father Walter took me out to his trapline. It's only after a succession of art school dropouts, two separations and serving 60 months in a federal penitentiary that art began to put me on the road to independence. I met an inmate and an artist who once told me: "All you need to do is believe in yourself".
Inspired by a book found at the library on Norval Morrisseau, I began to create pictures, at first using house paint from the jail woodwork shop, and jean jackets and torn bed sheets to make canvas. Prison visitors started buying my work, and during a day-pass, I arranged for my first exhibition at the Thomas B. Maracle Gallery on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, where four works were sold. An estimated 2,600 paintings later, I survived a substance abuse relapse, another jail term and a heart attack. But today I am sober and maintaining contact with my children and grandchildren.
As an Algonquin First Nation painter and sculptor, 1 have adopted my artistic heritage in a way that my elders would have never imagined, expressing my aesthetic, political and social views in a range of styles and media. My realistic depictions of daily activities, Northwestern Quebec wildlife and traditional spirituality, including legends and shamanistic transformations, are very powerful. The Great Northern Diver and the Timber Wolf remain among my favourite wildlife symbols
Frank Polson's art have been sold all around the world and displayed in many Canadian and European galleries.