Tim Paul is a talented Nuu-Chah-Nulth artist, born in 1950 and raised in Esperanza Inlet on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. His artwork features prominently in the Royal British Columbia Museum's Legacy collection and Out of the Mist—Treasures of the Nuu-chah-nulth Chiefs series, as well as in the Vancouver Art Gallery's traveling exhibition, “Down From the Shimmering Sky”. He is a respected elder, possessing vast knowledge of his culture and history, and uses it to inform his work as an artist, environmentalist and teacher.