"My art has always been about existing on the fringes of the mainstream - where our lives are considered nothing more than 'wards of the state' - a place of a sort of purgatory where we are confined and condemned yet not given any realistic chance to thrive. Yet in this condition we find our strength to resist, to keep our identity and to carry on. We live the same full lives as most, but we live it with so much less."

-Jim Logan

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Jim Logan is a Canadian artist with a mission. His mission is using his art to depict what he calls the “Quiet Condition.”

An easygoing, soft-spoken Metis, Jim is a skilled graphic artist, a missionary, and a candid observer of native life in the North. Although originally from British Columbia, it was the time spent in the Yukon Territory that inspired his mission. The “Quiet Condition” he found there was the broad spectrum of life on a Northern Indian Reserve. The tenderness and love in his work, contrasted with alcoholism and despair, has shown Jim to be an accurate and painfully honest commentator of native life.

Jim began to paint as a very young man, inspired by his mother, a hobby painter. He later studied graphic design at David Thompson University and the expressionistic work of artists like Edvard Munch and Van Gogh. He contrives to use his art as a graphic social comment as well as inspiration to many young Native artists. His honesty and sensitivity have earned him international recognition. Jim is undoubtedly an exceptional artist and a voice of his people.