Wolf Spirit at Semiahmoo branch

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Leslie Wells has created a vinyl wrap design for a wall in Semiahmoo Library. The design depicts a man surrounded by his spirit guides—two wolves. The wolves, Wells says, are a hunter’s helpers, as “they will chase the deer right to your door.”

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Leslie Wells is an artist of the Semiahmoo First Nation who creates carvings, paintings, jewellery, and prints. He has apprenticed with Haida artist Robert Davidson, assisting him on a house post that now resides in White Rock. In 2008, Wells graduated from the Northwest Coast Jewellery Arts Program at the Native Education College in Vancouver led by Kwakwaka’wakw/Haida artist Dan Wallace. His work is often described as having a “quiet spirituality."

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