Northwest Coast Native Indian Jewelry & Art by David Neel
443 West 3rd Street V7M 1G6 North Vancouver, BC, Canada

A preview of the 2020 WT Awards: Books of the Year Edition, showcasing ten of this year's finest Canadian books. A spellbinding memoir with universal reach, Th...e Way Home tells how David A. Neel overcame great loss the early death of his Kwakiutl father and estrangement from his culture to become one of Canada’s finest artists. Neel’s story hinges on the chance sighting, while working as a portrait photographer in Texas, of a haunting Northwest Coast mask from the 1890s. Inspired to move home to Vancouver and apprentice himself to leading Indigenous carvers, he discovers only later that the mask which sparked his journey was made by his own great-grandfather. Beautifully told and illustrated Neel’s work has been shown at the Smithsonian and the Venice Biennale Neel's memoir is written with the same calm mastery he brings to all his art. This is a wise, eloquent, and deeply moving book. 2020 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction jury (Helen Knott, Sandra Martin, and Ronald Wright) #WestonPrize #WTAwards

My webmaster created a page on my website for my books. That didn't take long ... just a year :) There are excerpts and photographs from my books here - https://www.davidneelartist.com/dn_books.php

I am honored to have my work included the exhibition, Creative Journeys, at the Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver. The show is an comprehensive look at the Bill Reid's work, and my bentwood box is exhibited alongside that of the master artist. These are photographs of our silver boxes (mine is on the left).

A humble beginning - the gold jewelry that you see here starts life when I make a piece of sheet metal. So many possibilities ... what shall I make with this?