Florence Shone

Florence Shone is a self-taught artist who uses acrylic and canvas as her medium. She is originally from the Piikani Nation in southern Alberta, but has resided in Edmonton all her life. She has a degree in Native Studies from University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB). Shone says that she has always been an artist. She began drawing at an early age, but it was only when she was almost finished university that she took an art class and learned that painting allows her to visually express and release her emotions onto canvas. Subjects include Blackfoot people from archival photographs, portraiture, landscape work and other intuitively created pieces. She regularly participates in local exhibitions in Alberta and has had work on display at the Royal Alberta Museum. Her art is in the collection of Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She is a mother of two and works as an artist and as the supervisor for a group home called Iskwew House run by Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society.