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about the artist
Paz Q Rainville (he/ki) is a Métis artist & farmer pursuing regenerative culture as a guiding purpose. His life has been shaped by time as a crew leader in the BC Wildfire Service; being on the frontlines of Ada’itsx & Kax:iks (Fairy Creek & Walbran) blockades; and now as a land & farm steward with the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga.
Ki gives his energy to various initiatives in the Southern Gulf Islands that are pursuing biogregional food justice & sovereignty; circular governance; self-expression; and regional Indigenous allyship.
Paz’s artwork gives an emphasis to invigorating interconnected ways of being – to the land, to community, to spirit, and to ourselves. And particularly in these times, to resisting oppressive and exploitative forces by engaging in direct action to create the holistic & equitable alternative. “This way will only rise by us rising together.”
Paz’s lineage is an amalgamation of peoples — a predominant mix of old Quebecois (de Rainville, Paquette, La Fontaine) ; Scottish roots (Morrisons & McLeods from the Hebride Isles) ; and his maternal bloodline residing from the North-East of Wīnipēk aen Laak (Lake Winnipeg), in the territory of Kinosao Sipi (Norway House Cree Nation).
Many of these ancestors have had a homeland on Turtle Island for the last 9 generations, and time beyond.
(big gratitude for Uncle Magnus who took on researching & compiling our ancestry)
