Erin Beneteau (of Rivière Blanche) lives and works in Ottawa-Gatineau, surrounded by forests and waterways, which inspires her art and woodworking. Nature plays a very important role in her creative expression.

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Erin grew up around fine woodworking and would find comfort in her father’s workshop as a child.  Drawing and painting her whole life, it wasn’t until the pandemic that she realised that woodworking was where her creative expression would sing.  Boxes are where she places her heart.

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Erin taught herself how to make a simple box, using only a small handsaw, and a clamp, at her kitchen table.  Quickly, she incorporated joinery, inlay, and shape to her work.  Eventually she turned her shed into her workshop, and hasn’t looked back since.