Opening the Line (2025) NatureOil on canvas30 40 in A winter trapping camp comes to life under a violet sky as two men work the line alongside their dog team. The scene captures the unromantic, physical reality of life on the land labour, cold, routine, and interdependence without sentimentality. Halin paints the North from lived experience, focusing on the quiet dignity of work and the human bond with animals in harsh conditions. Exhibition History Of This Place, The Old Fire
Bright yellow leaves scatter across fresh snow
The diptych divides not just the canvas but the forces of the landscape itself — ice against stone
building fronts
A late autumn scene just outside Dawson
the geometric rhythm of the buildings contrasting with the simple domestic ritual in the foreground
A group pauses in the bright thaw of early spring — snow still piled around the streets while warm light returns to the Yukon
thick with heat and late-day light
A fleeting slice of daily life rendered in bold
capturing the quiet interior world of someone suspended in their own thoughts
but something still moving through the land
binding the intimate and the monumental into a single moment
A quiet drive into the light
