About the work

Watercolour painting: During my time as a Conservation Officer, I worked in Quetico Provincial Park. One of the highlights was seeing the Pictographs. Pictographs are art figures and symbols that are drawn or painted onto a rock face. Pictography means the application of pigments. Pictographs were made by applying red ochre or, less commonly, black, white, or yellow dye. Most pictograph discoveries have been made by the Ojibway people in Quetico Park and at Lake of the Woods in northwestern Ontario. Quetico Provincial Park is a large wilderness park in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, renowned for its excellent canoeing and fishing. This 4,760 sq. km (1,180,000-acre) park shares its southern border with Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, part of the more prominent Superior National Forest. These large wilderness parks are often collectively called the Boundary Waters or the Quetico-Superior Country.