About the artist:
Adele Fussi is a senior (70 years young), Indigenous artist who took up oil painting in the winter of 2020 when the Covid pandemic took hold of her community. When she could no longer work or associate with her friends, she took up painting to try and pass the time, and she found her passion in her colourful landscape paintings.

Since she started painting 2.5 years ago, she has tied for 4th place in the American Art Awards 2022, won the 2022 Arty Award for ‘Emerging Artist’ and donated several painting to charitable organizations for fund raising. Adele is a full-time artist and has the majority of her works hanging in Le Hang Art Gallery in Vancouver.

Adele claims it must be her Cree heritage that inspires her to paint the majestic Coastal and Rocky Mountains. Her love of nature has always dominated her life, whether it was skiing, golfing, skydiving, or canoeing down a river, she was awed by the colours and composition of Mother Nature and her ancestral heritage has drawn her to paint the spirituality of the totems as she has lived on the West Coast most of her life.

Adele is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She lives in Abbotsford, BC with her husband Albert and their new puppy Esmi.

Follow Adele on Instagram @adele.fussi