Northwest Coast
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Split Eagle, Salmon & Father Bear Chief Seat
Don & Trace Yeomans
RESERVEDRed Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
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Raven & Frog Totem Pole
Don Yeomans
CA$80,000.00Red Cedar Wood
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Don Yeoman’s Raven & Frog Totem Pole demonstrates the artist’s mastery of cedar wood, particularly in his depth of carving. Yeoman’s decision to leave the pole unpainted serves to utilize a more minimalist approach and highlight the rich beauty of the wood.
Cedar wood is strong, lightweight, and extremely versatile. These qualities lend well to carving, and result in a wood that can be used to create a wide variety of objects.
The Raven is regarded as the Hero, Creator, Transformer, and the most important of all creatures to the coastal First Nations peoples. He is also known as the Trickster because of his wit and sense of humor. His legendary antics were often motivated by insatiable greed, and he loved to tease, to cheat, to woo and to trick. In the oral traditions of the Northwest Coast, Raven is credited with releasing the Sun, and creating the Moon, Stars and the Universe. In Haida culture, Raven is also said to have discovered mankind in a clamshell.
Frogs symbolize new life, good fortune, stability, and communication. They are associated with great wealth and prosperity. As a creature that lives both in water and on land, the Frog is revered for its adaptability, knowledge, and ability to inhabit both natural and supernatural realms. Frogs are the primary spirit helpers of shamans, usually representing the common ground or voice of the people. As a prominent sharer of knowledge, Frog is often shown in artistic depictions as touching its tongue to another figure in an expression of sharing.
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Big Money $$$
Don & Trace Yeomans
CA$50,000.00Acrylic Paint on Board
Unframed
60 x 36 x 1.75″ (each panel)
60 x 72 x 1.75″ (entire diptych)
“The inspiration to do this painting came about from my wife Trace’s desire to have a large, bold, and somewhat modern piece in our dining room. The idea was borrowed from a commission I did for the City of Vancouver in 2010 [street banners that would hang along Granville to 16th Avenue]…
I like this updated version better [than the commissioned design]. It looks less like a stained-glass window and has more movement. Trace and I enjoyed the painting part, as she painted one side and I the other. Her side is no doubt the cleaner painting.” – Don Yeomans -
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Raven & the Moon Bracelet
Don Yeomans
CA$45,000.0018K Yellow Gold, Repoussé, Chased, Engraved
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Killerwhale Panel
Philip Gray
SOLDRed Cedar wood
SOLD – For artist commission inquiries, please contact us at [email protected]
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Bear Bracelet
Don Yeomans
CA$42,000.0020K Yellow Gold, Repoussé, Chased, Stippled & Engraved
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Eagle Triptych Panels
Don Yeomans
SOLDRed Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
24.5 x 36 x 2″ (each panel)
73.5 x 36 x 2″ (entire triptych)
“This is the second triptych I did for this show, and this time I chose a different approach. One giant figure across three boards. The design is an Eagle, using painted undulating formline. I used blue formline with red secondary, simply because it is one of my favourite colours.” – Don Yeomans
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Killerwhale Triptych Panels
Don Yeomans
CA$36,000.00Red Cedar wood, Acrylic paint
36 x 24.75 x 2″ (each panel)
36 x 74.25 x 2″ (entire triptych)
“I have always loved patterns in design. The goal in this series was to represent a pod of whales in a very traditional colour & design. The biggest challenge for me in this was the absolute [tedium] I experienced having to carve the same design three times.” – Don Yeomans
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C’ixwatin (Eagle) Canoe Bentwood Box
Moy Sutherland
RESERVEDRed Cedar wood, Abalone shell, Operculum shell, Acrylic paint
Specific and unique to the Northwest Coast People is the bentwood or bent-corner box or container. A most outstanding item of the First Nations people, it is a made from one single plank of wood through a lengthy steaming process – a method strictly adapted by the coastal peoples.