| Charles Carnahan was born in 1958 in Salem, Oregon, but has made his home
in Alaska since 1961. His interest in art has been with him for as long as he can remember.
His early experience with artistiuc expression was strictly in two dimensional drawing, both
with pencil and pend and ink. He started working in three dimensions
soon after finishing high school and has been at it ever since.
Along with his interest in art, Carnahan has had a fanatical interest
in the out of doors since early childhood. Being raised in Alaska, he
has had ample opportunity to view the wildlife and lifestyles of the Alaskan
people on a firsthand basis. During his high school and college years, he
spent every possible moment hunting, fishing, or fur trapping.
In 1980, Carnahan began making the bulk of his living from the sale
of his ivory and stone carvings. In 1986, he saw the culmination of a lifetime
goal of becoming a registered hunting guide in Alaska. For the last eighteen
years, he has been supporting himself and his family (now numbering 7 members)
with a combination of guiding and carving. Mr. Carnahans work has a worldwide distribution
but so far has been sold exclusively in Alaska. The work of Charles Carnahan
is signed most often simply as "Chuck", or less frequently as "Chuck Carnahan"
At the present time, Carnahan and his family are temporarily residing in Oregon with
his recently widowed 82 year old father. |
