Acrylic on stretched canvas
11×21”
This painting was created under the tutelage of Inuk artist Jessica Winters. While I have not experienced the Arctic firsthand, this piece is an imaginative reflection — an emotional and intuitive interpretation of what an Arctic sky might feel like: expansive, alive with shifting color, and deeply connected to land and memory.
Through this work, I explored ideas of distance and belonging — how we imagine landscapes we have not yet touched, and how mentorship can help bridge those spaces. The painting is less about literal geography and more about feeling: stillness, scale, and the quiet intensity of northern light.
Working under Jessica’s tutelage encouraged me to think about land not just as scenery, but as relationship — something lived with, learned from, and respected. This piece is both a study and a gesture of respect toward Arctic environments and the cultures deeply rooted within them.
Jessica Winters is an Inuk painter, printmaker, mixed-media artist, and curator from Makkovik in Nunatsiavut, Labrador. Her work often draws on lived experiences in Inuit communities, combining cultural memory, ecology, and everyday life in the North. Trained academically in biology, she integrates environmental awareness into her artistic practice and advocates for the preservation of Inuit culture, values, and lands.
Winters has exhibited nationally and works across painting, textiles, and printmaking. She is part of a family of established Inuit craftspeople and frequently explores themes of land, memory, and community connection through color and narrative imagery.
Acrylic on stretched canvas
11×21”
This painting was created under the tutelage of Inuk artist Jessica Winters. While I have not experienced the Arctic firsthand, this piece is an imaginative reflection — an emotional and intuitive interpretation of what an Arctic sky might feel like: expansive, alive with shifting color, and deeply connected to land and memory.
Through this work, I explored ideas of distance and belonging — how we imagine landscapes we have not yet touched, and how mentorship can help bridge those spaces. The painting is less about literal geography and more about feeling: stillness, scale, and the quiet intensity of northern light.
Working under Jessica’s tutelage encouraged me to think about land not just as scenery, but as relationship — something lived with, learned from, and respected. This piece is both a study and a gesture of respect toward Arctic environments and the cultures deeply rooted within them.
Jessica Winters is an Inuk painter, printmaker, mixed-media artist, and curator from Makkovik in Nunatsiavut, Labrador. Her work often draws on lived experiences in Inuit communities, combining cultural memory, ecology, and everyday life in the North. Trained academically in biology, she integrates environmental awareness into her artistic practice and advocates for the preservation of Inuit culture, values, and lands.
Winters has exhibited nationally and works across painting, textiles, and printmaking. She is part of a family of established Inuit craftspeople and frequently explores themes of land, memory, and community connection through color and narrative imagery.