Sandbar Dance (2024) North South 2021

Sandbar Dance (2024) North South 2021Oil on canvas24 30 in A study of shifting riverbanks and exposed sandbars a landscape in motion. Bold sweeps of ochre and white echo the sculpting force of water, while sharp strokes of driftwood and willow branches anchor the scene in the Yukon floodplain. The painting captures that fleeting moment when the river recedes just enough to reveal the choreography of land underneath. Exhibition History Of This Place, The Old Fire Hall, Whitehorse, 2025

Light filters through twisting limbs and thick growth

A solitary figure sits on a bench beneath them

and the human form held inside it

A figure reclines backward into a bed of colour

It’s not drama

It’s a moment of motion

the presence still here

Halin paints the North from lived experience

A hot afternoon rendered in shade and saturation

The painting abstracts the city into blocks of colour and shadow

saturated pigments

A portrait of community in its rawest form