Artist Bio
Born 1984, Campbulton N.B raised on the Gaspé Caost of Quebec.
Raised on the reservation of Gesgapegiag, born full blooded native, or Micmac as we are known as.
At birth I was given up for adopted to another native family who could not have any children of there own. Bullied most of my life for being different and being passive in my ways, having no friends i begain to get creative with my hands. I grew up fast as most children my age do when living in the reservation. Things wernt easy infact life was harder on me over the factor that i was to passive.
At the age of 15 i had to live my own family and my life in Gaspé to finish schooling in another area, over the factor that my own people bullied me and pushed me to far. I could no longer take being adused by my very own people no longer. It was bad enough that they ran my life leaving me to hide in fear.
Once i had finished my high school in Fredericton N.B i came back to the simply ways of the Gaspé coast living hoping to find more for me there. Also being away from my home for too long had its effects on me for far to long.
I had a fresh new look on life, i grew up and gotten my life straight. But during the year 2003 my blood mother died of cancer, i myself have known my blood mother very will. For 4 years ive gotten the chance to know her and to love her and feel the sence of togetherness again. Something i have not had in my life, ive always felt alone even when in fact i wasnt, i had my family this much is true but yet up until i met my blood mother i have never been as close to someone before in my life. The oddness was all of my talents all of my love for the written word came from her, i looked and acted like her, it was as if we were twins lost at birth. But on the day she died i last all faith in thing and dragged myself into a deep depression.
The year 2004 i finished school completely, and went home finding it harder and harder to get out of being so depressed. I turned to many things and lost my way i lost who i was in general. Tried many times to kill myself or even get to addicted to anti-depressens and beer. I found life even harder when i felt myself suffercating in my parents home, i felt like there was no way out like this was all life had to give me.
I tried reaching out to find myself again and started to do little crafts like i did when i was just a child. Even started to paint a little, once my very own father had seen my work, he was very impressed by it so much that he got me into oil painting courses so that i may learn more. Thats when i started to find myself and even become better.
Thing only grew more deeper when i had soon realized i wasnt straight but was a lesbian, the mostly hardest things in life i ever had to do was tell my family who i knew i was. They didnt want to believe it and doubted it so much that it hurt even more. I hated being so different from everyone else, all my life had seemed like i was nothing more than some alien from outer space. Even more so i feel into a depression further.
It was not until around May 2006 where i realized i needed to get well, so i begain to work on myself and do the things that made me happy even wrote and painted more. Also finding the love of my life helped even more. I finally got off anti-depressens and with the long road ahead faugh threw the withdrawls with help.
I started painted and somehow my work was notcied and published a few logos and billboards. I already knew how to do all that because i worked with the computer on photoshop and drew my own work.
While on the Gaspé coast ive become known as the anti-bullying survey co-odinator, worked for them in 2005 to 2006. Did many guess speakings and faught even harder to prevent bullying from happening to anyone else. That is where i learnt how to paint and do billboards.
Now that my contract with the anti-bullying is over, i got no job, but yet make a small living off my artwork as much as i can, even painted drums, did logos, did more billboards for other cilents, and selling my paintings as much as i can.
My only hope are to become somewhat famous for what i do but only time can tell what may happen in the near future.
Email: ruhkah@hotmail.com
