Hunting is part of Aboriginal culture. Its source provides food and sharing between family and Community throughout. April Mercredi is an artist whose ancestral background is Cree, French Metis and Chinese. At an early age, her family moved from Calgary into the forest near Rocky Mountain House. The move provided Mecredi with diverse life experiences including going to a one-room schoolhouse, living in poverty and with starvation, and interacting with her mother's extended indigenous family. The cultural shock of the move and her experiences during that time later influenced her art. Her brightly coloured paintings in oil, acrylic or encaustic with mixed media and her use of natural forms and found materials relays Mercredi’s childhood connections to both her positive and negative life experiences and her indigenous heritage. Her indigenous spirituality emanates from her art.