Full Box (2023) Yukon

Full Box (2023) YukonOil on canvas30 x 40 in Two fishermen lean over the edge of a boat to check the fish wheel, working the river with practiced focus while a bear observes from the bank. The moment is calm but charged the routine of harvest unfolding under the steady presence of the wild. The painting captures the unspoken agreement of the North, where people and animals work the same waters and neither fully owns them. Exhibition History Of This Place, The Old Fire

this work captures both the force and harmony of Halin’s encounters with wild water

forceful strokes of rust

while sharp strokes of driftwood and willow branches anchor the scene in the Yukon floodplain

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Oil on linen30 x 40 in

capturing that brief

with a single red bird nestled among the wildflowers

and a little mischievous

blurring the line between vulnerability and power — nature as both danger and surrender

The fabric lifts in the light

capturing an ordinary moment of conversation that becomes emblematic of small-town life

but the raw geology of the forest floor revealed beneath the collapse of autumn growth