Sonja Ahlers, Lion Cubs

Sonja Ahlers
Lion Cubs, 2016
Watercolour, collage, Arches paper
12 1/4 x 16 inches 

Framed by Fine Art Framing & Services

A multi-media one-off piece created in 2016 by Ahlers after multiple family and friends had passed away. The watercolour became a landscape and the lion cubs fit in with it harmoniously. 

Sonja Ahlers is a visual artist and poet based in Victoria, on the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) speaking peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. Since the early nineties, Ahlers has worked primarily in book and book-adjacent formats, in a medium that she calls visual poetry. She is the author of Temper, Temper and Fatal Distraction (Insomniac Press, 1998 and 2004), The Selves (Drawn & Quarterly, 2010), and Swan Song (Conundrum Press, 2021), and was a key contributor to Rookie Mag from 2011 to 2015.