Grief and Wonder, 2017 by Greg A. Robinson, Chinook Nation

Grief and Wonder, 2017Greg A. Robinson, Chinook Nationacrylic on paper24" high x 19" wide (paper size) The Chinook Indian Nation is a confederation of the five most western tribes, the Lower Chinook, Clatsop, Willapa, Wahkiakum and Cathlamet located in SW Washington State near the mouth of the Columbia River. Greg A. Robinson, born in 1957, is a member of the Chinook Indian Nation located in Bay Center, Washington. Primarily self taught, Robinson has been an artist since childhood, with an early fascination for wildlife and tribal art after receiving a small carved canoe as a gift. He sold his first work of art in junior high school. His past and current works in the traditional Chinookan art forms are a tribute to the Columbia River ancestors, to whom art, life, stories, and culture were inseparable. Through his art and instruction he hopes to inspire future Chinookan artisans. Robinson produces a variety of work in the style of the Chinookan peoples of the middle to lower Columbia Ri