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LLI GOLINE/NORMAN WELLS - Norman Wells is about to get a little prettier thanks to some new public art.

One of two murals being painted in the town is now complete.

Artists Bonnie Deschene and Antoine Mountain are responsible for creating the large pieces of art.

Bonnie Deschene and Antoine Mountain completed this mural recently. The public art will be on display soon in Norman Wells. - Photo courtesy of Leanne Taneton

They painted the works as part of the Norman Wells Youth Painting Project, an initiative of Sahtu in the Arts in collaboration with the Norman Wells Land Corporation.

The completed mural features an impressionistic depiction of a Northern Transportation Company Limited freighter barge heading north up the Mackenzie River.

The barge is towing supplies to bring to the communities.

Above, curly, swirly clouds fill the pale blue sky while in the background lush green windswept hills roll along the distant shore.

The waves in the Mackenzie river's powerful current reflect glints of the yellows, whites and blues from the sky and shorelines.

That colourful painting will adorn the red facade of the Edward G. Hodgson Building, which houses the Norman Wells Land Corporation office.

The second mural, which depicts an eagle, wolf and bear, will be installed inside the same building upon its completion.

"That mural will be titled All My Relations," Mountain said.

The mural is scheduled to be finished by summer's end.

Deschene will work on that mural with Mountain before heading south to Red Deer College in September to study in the music program there.

The regional office for the GNWT Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment in Norman Wells initiated Sahtu in the Arts earlier this year to promote artists in the region.