Streetscape GTO (2019) Oil paintingOil on Canvas 30 x 40 in A blaze of midday light floods the narrow streets of Guanajuato. Bold color blocks the walls, the shadows, the flowers overhead. A lone figure walks ahead, momentarily held in the tension between heat and hue. This is Halin at his most expressive, celebrating light as subject, not just illumination. Exhibition History North South: The Twain Shall Meet, The Old Fire Hall, Whitehorse, 2021 ProvenanceArtists Studio
The composition draws a direct parallel between industrial disturbance and the violation of the land itself — the human form becoming landscape
Exhibition History• North–South
A haunting piece from Halin’s time in Guanajuato
The surrounding landscape dissolves into shifting strokes of violet
the warmth of a place lived in
and the first true greens return to the Yukon
feel the grit underfoot
the moment a child begins to claim her own voice
A seated skeleton rendered with startling clarity sits against a rich red backdrop
where life hums beneath the surface
capturing the raw force and fleeting beauty of the melt
The saturated purples and blues around her heighten the sense of an inner world—one where music becomes both refuge and self-expression
