Introducing the First Nations artists behind our collection of Northwest Coast Native art prints
Charles Elliott (Temosen) is a Coast Salish artist from the T’sartlip First Nation on Southern Vancouver Island. Throughout his career as an artist, Elliott has created many contemporary Coast Salish designs and artworks, as well as traditional wood carvings. He is also a painter and has created many serigraph prints....
Charles (Chazz) Elliott is a Coast Salish artist from the T’sartlip First Nation on Southern Vancouver Island. Chazz traces his artistic roots through his family. His father, master carver Charles Elliott Sr., taught him carving and Salish design. His mother, Myrna Crossley‑Elliott, shared her knowledge of plants and medicine, and...
Chris Paul is a Coast Salish artist who mixes traditional style with his own contemporary interpretations of aboriginal design. Chris produces sculptures, carvings, jewellery, original paintings and serigraphs. His sculptures are usually multifaceted in that he combines different processes and materials into one work of art. He has, for example,...
Born in Victoria, in 1986, Dylan Thomas (Qwul’thilum) is a Coast Salish artist and member of the Lyackson First Nation of Valdes Island, through his grandfather, Clifford Thomas. He also has Songhees heritage through his great grandmother, Mary Moody (of the Albany family), Squamish heritage though his great grandfather, George...
Joe Wilson is a Coast Salish artist who was born in 1967, and raised at Koksilah near the small city of Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. His keen interest in native art began at the tender age of 12 whilst watching his stepfather, Johnny Sampson, design and carve beautiful...
Leslie Robert Sam is a Coast Salish artist, born in Duncan, BC in 1973. He adopted the artist name lessLIE in reference to the deception and betrayal that First Nations peoples suffered as a result of colonization. When lessLIE was six months old, he and his mother moved to Seattle...
Manuel Salazar is an Indigenous artist from Seattle, WA. He is affiliated with the Cowichan tribe of the Coast Salish Nation. In his early twenties, Manuel began to work full-time as an artist, interpreting the legends of his Salish heritage. He has apprenticed with Delmar Johnny and Art Vickers, while...
Margaret August is a contemporary, two-spirit Coast Salish artist from Shíshálh Nation, born in 1983 on the traditional, unceded Lekwungen and Wasanec territories. The ancestral power animal Skw’etu’?—Raven in the Shashishalhem language—deeply influences Margaret’s work. Known as the light-bringer who brought the sun into the world, Raven represents transformation, fluidity,...
Maynard Johnny Jr. is a Coast Salish artist who began creating art at seventeen. Influenced by Robert Davidson, the late Art Thompson, and Mark Henderson, he developed a distinctive style rooted in tradition and shaped by his own vision. Maynard is best known for his graphic work, but he also...
Phil (Phillip) Joe Jr. was born and raised in Quwutsun (Duncan), BC on Vancouver Island. He works full‑time as an artist and has also taught youth and adults in local schools. Phil began his career by studying artists such as Manuel Salazar, Joe Wilson, Ed Joe, Stuart Pagaduan, and lessLIE....