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6 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
David Alexander draws inspiration for his art by traveling through places-experiencing them first hand, feeling his boots on the rocks, inhaling the mountain air, tasting the salt-spray. From the shores of Newfoundland's Irish Loop to a glacier in the Rockies, David sketches his impressions of these rugged lands. Later, in his Kelowna studio, he uses his notebook of drawings to create large-scale canvases in acrylic.
Episode 2
Mary Anne Barkhouse is a sculpture and installation artist living in the wetlands of Ontario's Haliburton Highlands. Here, she has closely observed the beaver in its natural habitat-a figure that has appeared prominently in many of her artworks. Sculpting first in wax, she later casts the beaver in bronze. The finished sculpture shows the beaver, poised in an everyday position, commemorated as a worker and builder.
Episode 3
Traveling through the old-growth forests of Ontario's Temagami region, Robert Wiens begins with close-up photographs of ancient pines. A carver, sculptor, and woodworker by trade, Wiens disavows the horizon line in his landscape, focusing his attention instead on details in these trees. From the photographs he paints large watercolours in one to one perspective.
Episode 4
Tahltan-Tlingit artist Dempsey Bob has devoted a lifetime to the craft of woodcarving. His work arises from a northwest coast carving tradition that stretches back for centuries. A contemporary master, Dempsey has advanced this form - creating sculptural works that expand on traditional designs. In the BC rain forest near the Skeena River, Dempsey Bob creates masks for our camera. For him the great trees, giant mountains, and mighty rivers are his inspiration. We are, as he puts it, "in sculpture country."
Episode 5
Marlene Creates lives just outside St. John's, Newfoundland. Her home backs onto an expansive natural forest and a river that originates in the Blasthole Pond. With Marlene we survey this land from (to use Newfoundland vernacular) the top of the tolt, down through the droke, and into Blasthole Pond River. Marlene's art is woven into this landscape: a mixture of poetry, photography, installation, and observation - it work meticulously analyses our connection to nature. By paying attention, by collecting images and stories, and by seeing, Marlene elucidates personal moments in the natural world.
Episode 6
Chronicling our past, and giving shape to our cultural identity, sculptor Joe Fafard is a prominent figure in Canadian art. Working at his Saskatchewan farm near Boggy Creek, Fafard creates iconic sculptures. As common-place as cows, dogs, sheep, and horses might seem, these domesticated animals speak volumes about our human connection to land. We join Joe in the winter as he constructs a massive wolf figure made from logs found on his land. Later we accompany him to the National Gallery of Canada where his achievements are celebrated with an impressive retrospective.