Carol Grigg was born in Portland, Oregon in 1942. She grew up in Lake Oswego and has always lived in Oregon. She is self taught, although her parents gave her much encouragement and the freedom to create and follow the example of her mother, also an artist. She is part Cherokee Indian and she draws her inspiration from nature and primitive art. She is influenced by primitive art, especially from
...see more »the earliest cave paintings. She is best known for desert-colored pastels depicting her signature Native American rider and horse, which symbolize Mother Earth. The images she brings forth are surrounded by space and create a suspended moment in which one might rest. In this the ideas of ecstasy, intuition, love and awareness in nature, healing power and spiritual unity surface into the consciousness of the observer - participant. It is the Great Mother energy she is expressing. She feels strongly about the land and preserving the environment we have left, the animals and preserving what species we have left, the unity of nature and the simplicity of the relationship between man, earth and beast. Ageless in itself, her work is a culmination of artistic genius, innate talent, and the warmth created by her beliefs that flow naturally into her work. She uses a variety of creative forms - watercolor, oil, collage, clay, inks, music and poetry - anything she can easily and quickly get her hands on. Grigg is world renown. Her posters and lithographs hang in places from Big Sur to the Cairo Hilton. « see less
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