Killer Whale by Patrick Amos, Nuu-Chah-Nulth

Killer Whale, 2006by Patrick AmosNuu-Chah-Nulth First Nationframed Silkscreen printedition 248/29919" high x 18" wide x 1" deepPatrick Amos was born in 1957 on Nootka Island, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island into the Mowachaht Band, one of fourteen member tribes of the Nuu Chah Nulth Nation.  Since 1976 Patrick has been designing limited edition prints. In 1979 he began carving wood apprenticing with Tony Hunt Sr. at the Art of the Raven gallery in Victoria, B.C. Later, he apprenticed with Tim Paul at the Royal B.C. museum carving shed in Victoria, where he assisted with a few totem pole projects. In 1989/90 he assisted Tim Paul to carve a 36 foot Hesquiaht totem pole for the Mauri people of New Zealand. Patrick Amos began selling his work through the Royal B.C. museum shop, in Victoria in 1976. He had his first solo exhibition in 1991 at the gallery Indigena, in Stratford, Ontario; then in 1992 he he exhibited at the Native Heritage Centre, in Duncan, B.C. and the Gallery