"Ember" Giclée Print by Shaun Peterson, Puyallup and Tulalip

Ember by Shaun Peterson, Puyallup and Tulalipframed giclee print, edition of 85 21” high x 18.75” wide x .5” deep framed Shaun Peterson was born in Puyallup, Washington in 1975 and is a member of the Puyallup and Tulalip Tribes of the Salish peoples. Shaun's work is culturally based in the ancient tradition of the Salish speaking tribal groups that cover a majority of western Washington and parts of Southern British Columbia. In Shaun's introduction to the Northwest Coast Native art discipline he worked with a select group of artists skilled in their field of expertise including Haida artist Bruce Cook III, Steve Brown, Makah artist Greg Colfax and Loren White. Working with these individuals, Shaun was able to learn a great deal about the variety of styles that define the different cultural groups through the art itself. In his quest to understand the defining artistic features of his own cultural group, he found there was minimal documentation readily available on Salish art. This ins