User:Crgrafx

CRGrafx is a jargon name meant to be interpreted as, "see our graphics" and was formally used as the name for a graphics design business and since turned into an art studio, although today the name is mainly used as the domain name for a website. CR Grafx Art & Design Logo Banner

Being a visual artist, on my creative side, my preference is to use the name because of it's originality and unique meaning. CR Grafx Design and or CR Grafx Art & Design Studio has been online since 1999, in one capacity or another, with creativity being the common denominator. Being an artist can sometimes be like the person who travels where one's creativity wishes to go. It is usually the business side of art which can keep an artist from straying too long in some places or staying longer in others. In other words, the early eighties were my apprentice years for Kwakwaka´wakw carving and the late nineties was a period when painting carvings became a passion.

The Kwakwaka´wakw culture, like art and carving, was a firsthand learned experience for me as well. My Kwakwaka´wakw teacher, Thomas Bruce was born in Alert Bay. My paintings became a lengthy project that included research, copyright and winning a Jury Art Show in Qualicum Beach, B.C. The paintings, acrylic on canvas were titled, Mask Portraits, A Tribute To Nak´waxda´xw Kwakwaka'wakw Chief Willie ‘Smoky-Top’ Seaweed.

Willie Seaweed, born in 1873, became a master carver and artist, and Chief before passing away in 1967 when he was 94. Willie Seaweed was one of the most inspirational artist and carvers of his era and his legacy lives on as seen in many Kwakwaka´wakw carvings to this day.