Rawry & Pohly consists of co-founding Calgary artists Kevin Chow, B.Bus (marketing), and Jamie Mason B.A. (English), B.Ed. Their journey began in 2010, when Chow gifted Mason a teddy bear, the exact duplicate of his own childhood plushie (Pohly), which she named Rawry, but it wasn’t until September of 2014 that Chow and Mason began toying with combining their styles and stories, armed with dollar-store sharpies and acrylic paint on canvas and a sense of fun.
Known for their bright colours and unique linework that awakens the viewer’s inner child, they have created a new visual style they call Contemporary Saturdays, a homage to the artists’ own childhood of Saturday morning cartoons, and nostalgic family adventures outside of the structure of a school week.