Art for Aid's listings

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: Our Mother the Earth is worn and living through the burden of our reckless creation without end. The trees and flowers hunger for love and comfort, the water and the earth seek pity from a source that has no soul and no time for learning. (Inconvenient nature). Our Mother the Earth gives more, ever more, out of l...

- 16x20 archival print - digital slice by Colleen Gray The Little People move through our world hidden and elusive, hiding among the shadows and playing mischievous games. They hide things, tricks us and, are seen often from the corner of the eye in the deep forest. It is said that if you are kind to them, they will care for your family in troubled times. Wh...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A woman finds a blanket with stains of blood in the weave. She takes it to a Story Tree and places it there with her tobacco, and a request to know more. When she returns, the tree shares the story of the blanket with the woman under the midday sun. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the i...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Standing Ones are what we call the trees. In great cities the Standing Ones of the forests are silenced by the concrete giants. But through the Earth and through the Waters they both speak their stories. This painting can be viewed upside down. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to pro...

- 16x20 archival print Story: The ice melts, the earth warms, and secret places are made known to the hungry. Old spirits, long resting, are awakened amid the heaving and groaning of the planet. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. Prints are ready to drop into a 16x20" frame...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: He knew the wild horses. A medicine dream showed him a vision. In it he became a yellow horse running beneath the moon with the wind and the storm. He awoke to the sound of thunder. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. Prints are ...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: Everywhere, she hears the voice of her child, hears the jingle of her dress beneath the arbor. She hears her bird-laugh in the passing crowd, and feels her elusive spirit moving through the whisper of a summer storm. It's been so long that she's gone and still, still - she is always right here. NOTE: ALL prints h...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The Sacred Wolf Messenger grows weary of the ways of the Two Leggeds and he raises council with Creator to speak of his concern. He feels the impotence of his voice among the Creator's children and seeks the strength to continue to teach those who will not hear, and will not learn. NOTE: ALL prints have a white b...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Stealer of Gold - A conversation between the Raven and the Creator. Story: "Creator, why do your children love the golden stone so much? I have seen them kill for it and die for it. I have stolen their stone and taken their power. I am only a young raven who must know why." The Creator smiled. "The golden stone is but a...

- 16x20 archival print Story: The salmon speaks for the least of the river's creatures. The Orca cries for the pain of their beloved salmon, the bears weep, the people pray, and the black death moves ever further down the river of life. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. Pr...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: What do the animals think of us; when we destroy the trees and rape the land, when we steal the sun with industry and greed, what do they think of us? Artist's Note: Since the moment the paint dried in 2018, people have had a differing opinion about this being a bear or a wolf. I have said yes to both sides. Spir...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The Great Bear of the North speaks with Grandmother Moon about his home and the creatures who live there. He speaks of starvation, of strange human things called plastics poisoning the food. He asks if there is anything the animals can do. "Love them until the love breaks their hearts open", she said. "This is th...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: She is a proud Matoki, a woman of the Medicine Society. She speaks her morning prayers to Grandfather Sun, asking for a great healing to be brought to people who suffer in a world gone mad with a disease of the heart. This is all that she can do. (Little is known of the Matoki Medicine Women Society of the Blackf...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A Holy Woman travels to the Grandfather Sun to ask for water for her people's crops so the children can eat during a difficult time. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. Prints are ready to drop into a 16x20" frame.

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray There are creatures in our world who have an intelligence that we could learn from. They exist in their world in harmony with all things. They are unseen but never unaffected by our inability to do the same. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your f...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The true meaning of home is not some place on a map. The foundation of a life is a moveable and fluid thing that binds itself to the hide and poles; it lives in the small pockets of well worn grooves, and in the ties that bind it all together. The seeds of a home take root in the heart of the home fire. They are ...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: Thirteen Grandmothers pray under the fullness of the Sturgeon Moon. There is a moment when they become one with the First Grandmother, and all the prayers spoken for all the women lost, are gathered by a Spirit Helper. They are brought to the heart of the Grandmother Moon in a great ascension where all prayers ar...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A Sundance Warrior stands with his tobacco in hand, offering pitiful prayers and dusty tears to the union of Grandfather Sun and Grandmother Moon. The wind calls the tobacco from his fingers. The sun turns its gaze to the warrior and his scars shine with the memory of their making. NOTE: ALL prints have a white b...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A tribute to the beautiful Salmon, who’s life, gives life. Grandfather Sun rises as our Mother the Earth turns her face to greet him. Their union awakens life. Beneath the steel grey ocean, the Eastern Salmon moves through the water with quiet grace in silent waters. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around th...

- 16x20 archival print Story: Her Grandmother made her a cedar bath. A sacred one. She felt the water whisper into her blood, "I love you." The cedar touched every tired bone and the spirit of the Standing Ones sang her to sleep. They held her right there in the middle of the earth with their powerful roots while the soil drank her sorrow. - Inspired by an E...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The Standing Elders have seen the birth of stones and the passing of time. They have marked the passage of ancient civilizations, breathing in, breathing out, living on, giving life. We are small and insignificant in their shadow, existing only to take while they exist only to give. Watercolor and ink on 16x12" A...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: A young woman seeks guidance. She is on a vision quest and seeks answers. "Ask your Grandmother", whispered the wind. "Bring tobacco", spoke the stone. "Love me", cried the waters at her feet. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your framing. ...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: Beneath the cottonwood trees, a young woman dances for our Mother, the Earth. Her prayers are wet with heavy tears and her buffalo robe wears the colours of creation in kinship with her broken heart. The buffalo gather to hold council. What can be done to restore the balance, to heal from humanization. NOTE: ALL ...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: He is a sea wolf without his family, adrift in a beautiful world that is vanishing before his eyes. The beloved salmon are gone, the grand totem poles in his honour are gone. Only the echo of ancient prayers remain as comfort in the deep. Artist's Note: I Am Orca appeared on billboards in 2019 as part of a nation...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: Elk carries the song of love that seduces the spirit of woman. Elk feels her sorrow, knows her hunger. He beckons her to the spirit world. She holds fast to the Moon, sure in the knowledge that if she lets go, her spirit might wander, forever seeking the voice of her beloved. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border ...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: She remembers the burning tipis and the sound of dying relatives through her Grandmother's telling. A fire ignites within her. Ancient voices remind her of who she is, and of the place her blood comes from. She moves forward into the new world as a warrior for peace to quiet the fires of anger and so change the f...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: The turtles are hunting, the jellies are hiding and the balance of earth is the death and rebirth in a cycle of time. The blue and the green of the so seldom seen is a gift to the eyes of our world. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your fra...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray There is great confusion among the animals. Our Mother the Earth is going through many changes. Okimaw Muskwa, the Chief Bear, travels to the spirit world to speak with Grandfather Sun about these things. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provide white space to compliment your fram...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: One day a woman spoke to a tree because she felt the tree would listen to her. The tree listened long into the day. It filled her with the energy of creation and of the earth's goodness. The trees took her tears and created a beautiful lake so she could see the beauty of her pain in the cradle of the earth's embr...

- 16x20 archival print by Colleen Gray Story: We will spend hours waiting to see them. We will wait even longer just to hear them sing so we can feel connected to a world we can only imagine and long to be a part of. They serenade the oceans, and our spirit dances to their music. NOTE: ALL prints have a white border around the outside of the image, to provid...