Mona Thrasher (1942-2013)
Untitled Polar Bear Swimming
Oil on Board
Date: January 1992
24” x 16” artist board (framed 27” x 20”)
Signed and dated lower right front.
Mona Thrasher was born in 1942 in a bush camp between Aklavik and present day Inuvik. At a young age, a hunting accident left her partially deaf and mute. Mona is a self-taught artist, with no formal training.
At the age of 18, she was approached by Father Adam to paint the Stations of the Cross in the Roman Catholic Church in Inuvik (the Igloo Church). Even though she had never done such a large project, Father Adam knew she was capable. It took Mona just three months to paint all 14 Stations, which still hang in the church today.
Since then she has created many paintings, mainly using the colours Blue and White because she believes they best represent the traditional Inuit life - the sky, water, snow and ice. She hoped that through her art, people get a better understanding of the North and its people.
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