Book and other types of illustration.
Workshops in a variety of topics, such as, moccasin rocks and flower beadwork design painting.
Kristi Bridgeman is a Métis artist working in the traditional lands of the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples. Her Métis family line is from Alberta and Red River, Manitoba. Kristi is a member of the Métis Nation British Columbia and Métis Nation Greater Victoria, the Federation of Canadian Artists, and many local environmental.
Kristi’s artistic focus is a merging of environmental, social and familial-ancestral Métis designs. The historical and cultural nature of the work requires intensive research, consultation with community elders, patterns from family heirlooms and archives. Her paintings often include native and threatened species, life stages, mirrored design, medicine wheel colours, and traditional Métis flower beadwork imagery. Laying down patterns reminiscent of her ancestor’s work gives the artist a sense of connection to them. Kristi uses environmentally friendly mediums such as quill pen, sepia ink, watercolour, wax resist, with embellishments of bead, quill or hide. Collaborations with her cousin Lisa Shepherd includes gorgeous glass beadwork.
The artist has been featured and awarded in solo and group exhibits in both B.C. and Alberta. Her work has been shortlisted for Governor General's Awards and several dozen book awards and she was honoured as one of 150 Top B.C. Women Artists by the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria. Most recently her work was given the Award of Excellence and Jurors Choice at Vancouver Island juried Exhibitions. The artist is available for fine art or illustration commissions as well as local workshops.