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Frank Polson Frank is a Native North American Algonquin, born in Ville-Marie, Quebec in 1952. He is a member of the Long Point First Nation (Northwestern Quebec).
Around 1985, Frank discovered a passion for the arts and enrolled in a two year course at South Porcupine Campus in Timmins, Ontario but personal problems interfered and he was unable to complete the first year. In 1989 he tried again, enrolling in Visual Arts at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario. Again, personal and lifestyle conflicts cut his work short of completion.
For several years Frank struggled with the ravages of alcohol, drugs, self-doubt and conflicts with the law. At all times and places, it was his love of nature, the Native Wayand his vision of his art that helped him through.
A self-taught artist who produces works of unique beauty which is relevant to today and in accordance with his heritage. For the last four years he has worked at developing his unique style in the medium of acrylics. He has rekindled his fond memories of many pleasurable and educational seasons, spent on the trap lines with his father and has tried to capture those wonderful memories on canvas among the glorious sunsets and the sounds and feelings of the wilderness' days and nights. The sound of the "Great Northern Diver" and the cry of the "Timber Wolf†seem to haunt his vision of the beautiful Quebec Northwest.
Frank credits the Elders for helping him find and maintain balance in his life, to overcome his problems and conflicts and to live with and finally defeat the frustration that followed him for so many years. He finally knows that he can stop running and that he has nothing to prove to the world.
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