A self taught artist, Gregory Sumida is known for powerful realist landscape paintings and for beautifully observed scenes of Crow and Shoshone Indians. As the son of American born Japanese parents SumidaÕs paintings carry an Asian inflected tone that speak of simplicity. His painting process is ceremonial and observed with each new work, always beginning with grinding his own paints. His attraction to the subject of certain tribes of Native Americans delves from his wanting to depict quiet scenes evoking a period when times were slower. Sumida feels that great art slows us down and communicates a spirituality that transcends the physical world.