Gene Boshkaykin is holding a one-man art show at Chartwell Glacier Ridge on Saturday afternoon.
“I was inspired by my distant cousin, Sterling Johnson,” Boshkaykin said. “He was an up-and-coming artist that sadly passed away, but he was in the newspapers and kind of taking Ontario by storm.
“Then when I got into junior high school and high school, that’s when people started noticing my art and some of my teachers said ‘Hey, these are some nice drawings, but don’t draw in your homework.’ After that, I got into art classes and I ended up majoring in art at university.” His journey and his family’s background are a big inspiration on his work, especially with his Indigenous drawings.“Now that I’m an adult, I’m more influenced by my culture and everything is about that. My mother tried to raise me in the traditional ways, but she could only do so much in the city. We went to the powwows, but we couldn’t do the sweat lodges and things like that.
“My stuff going viral has been pretty crazy. One of those happened during COVID when everyone was staying home. I went on Facebook one day and all of a sudden there were 50,000 likes for just one post.When asked what his long-term goals are, Boshkaykin says he would like to become a professional artist at some point.“I’ve been sober for nearly 11 years and everything just keeps going upwards.”
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