Dylan Thomas 'Five Ravens' Print Available

Artist: Dylan Thomas
Title: Five Ravens
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 30 x 18.5 Inches
Edition: 125
Price: $200

Dylan Thomas is a Canadian artist born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1986. He is a member of the Lyackson First Nation (Valdes Island) and carries Coast Salish, Songhees, Squamish and Snuneymuxw ancestry. Although raised in an urban setting, he was introduced to Salish art as a child through family cultural practice and later undertook formal training in Northwest Coast form line, studying jewellery techniques under the late Seletze (Delmar Johnnie) and working with established artist Rande Cook.

Thomas describes his creative approach as “Sacred Geometry,” a term that also served as the title of his 2016 solo exhibition at Alcheringa Gallery. His paintings, prints and engraved jewellery merge traditional Salish ovoids, crescents and trigons with precise mathematical patterning drawn from Buddhist mandalas, Celtic knot work and Islamic tessellations. The result is luminous, symmetrical imagery that speaks to both cultural continuity and cross-cultural connection. Deep jewel tones and crisp line work animate drums, paddles and large canvases, while his gold and silver bracelets often embed subtle equations within the curves, linking ancestral iconography to contemporary concepts of infinity and balance.

Thomas has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, has been featured in Contemporary Art on the Northwest Coast and has had work published in The Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, underscoring the scholarly interest in his fusion of art and numeric harmony. By situating Coast Salish visual language within global geometric traditions, Dylan Thomas expands the conversation around Indigenous art, demonstrating that ancestral form line can converse fluently with modern science, spirituality and design.