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Labrador and the North

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Voice of Fire I

 

Voice of Fire II

 

Voice of Fire III

 

Voice of Fire IV

 

Never Melting Ice I

Never Melting Ice I: Cirque

 

Never Melting Ice II

Never Melting Ice II: Götterdämmerung

Above Tasialuk Lake, 2011, acrylic on shaped wood

Above Tasialuk Lake

Glacial Valley

Glacial Valley

Across the Lake

Nocturne: Across the Lake (Kluane)

Nocturne: Big Land

Nocturne: Big Land

Nocturne: Labrador Gorge, 2011, acrylic on paper,

Nocturne: Labrador Gorge

Big Land from the air

Big Land, from the Air

About these paintings

For nearly two decades, the main inspiration for my work and the source of my creative energy has been the natural world, particularly wild environments offering extreme visual drama. The Canadian North is one such environment, created with fire, carved by ice.

My artistic focus for the past several years is rooted in several expeditions to the North. I have travelled to northern Labrador with geologists and geographers, to Baffin Island with geologists, and to the Yukon with ecologists. Most recently, I was in Nunatsiavut's Torngat Mountains (northern Labrador) with geographers researching climate change. My most recent paintings spring from that experience generally, and from glacial landscapes and glacial melt specifically. The title of my solo exhibition at The Rooms in St. John's (2015–16), Never Melting Ice, is a literal translation of an Inuktitut word for "glacier."

My artistic influences include German Romanticism, Abstract Expressionism, and Earth Art. And although I work in the traditional genre of landscape, I am less interested in literal representation than in examining the natural physical environment as a vehicle for content, metaphor, and symbol. The dramatic terrains to which I am drawn — and which, in turn, I draw — are those that, for me, evoke the Sublime.

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