Clarence Kapay has built up a solid reputation in the world of Western and Native American Art through his artistic achievements, experience, family support, education, and "several opportune strokes of good luck." He is a graduate of the First Nations University of Canada and has accumulated several awards and achievements throughout his twenty-eight years as a professional artist. Clarence was born and raised on the Day Star First Nation in south-central Saskatchewan; he is best known for his diversity and craftsmanship. For him, art is a means of communicating his people's symbols, spirituality, and beliefs. He currently resides in his mountain home in Banff, Alberta, with his wife Val and two daughters, Shania and Sierra.
"I live in an environment where the air is clean, the land is rugged, and the wildlife is plentiful, the perfect environment for an artist," Kapay says, as he relaxes in his studio staring out toward a backyard full of spruce and pine. "I'm incredibly lucky to do what I enjoy for a living, and I appreciate the interest in my art. Where ever I am, if I'm standing alone on a precipice of a mountain or along a foggy lakeshore on the cusp of a crisp summer sunrise, I take with me all the nuances of that instant, and it's the essence of that fleeting moment that I try to recapture on canvass. It is my honor to present to you these portals to my imagination."
