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Nominated for Two Gemini Awards in 2007

Best Direction in a Documentary Series

Ian Toews, Landscape as Muse II: The Forest with Peter von Tiesenhausen

and

Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series

Ian Toews, Landscape as Muse III

 

Director, Producer: Ian Toews
Regina, Saskatchewan
Landscape as Muse Season II

Full Season - $69.99 CDN (13 episodes)

 

Landscape as Muse showcases both the world-class artists and spectacular landscapes that are found in Canada.  Following the artist's gaze, this beautiful cinematic series examines the inspirational relationship that exists between artists and landscape

Three of our gallery artists were featured in Season II:

Douglas Haynes
Peter von Tiesenhausen
Tom Willock

Their DVD's are available in the gallery at $24.95 CDN each

Scroll down for more information on each DVD.

 

Episode 18

Peace-Athabasca Delta with Doug Haynes
One of the largest freshwater deltas on earth, the Peace-Athabasca is a UNESCO world heritage site.  Hundreds of thousands of birds, including the endangered whooping crane, come here to nest.  From the air and on the ground, painter Doug Haynes draws upon the shapes, textures, and light of the delta for a series of paper works.  He provides us detailed insight into his process: transforming his initial impressions and experiences of the landscape by manipulating scale and media through collage.  Later in his Edmonton studio, Haynes further re-works and refines the original works on paper into large-scale canvases.

 

Episode 25
Waterton Lakes National Park with Tom Willock
Waterton Lakes National Park marks an abrupt convergence of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains.  This dramatic meeting of ecosystems and landforms makes the Waterton area one of the most biologically and geographically diverse locations in Canada.

Tom Willock's rich black and white large-format photographs capture the texture and drama of this landscape.  Underlying the aesthetic value of these images is an unwavering concern for the preservation of nature.

When I photograph something, I secure it in my own mind. I secure it for myself.  Just to show what we really are losing - or saving.  These photographs are real.  These aren't imaginary places, this is what our earth looks like.

 

Episode 26
The Forest with Peter von Tiesenhausen
West-Central Alberta's Peace River country is a mosaic of aspen woodlands and fescue grassland laid out over the gently rolling foothills of the Rockies.  Here, amid Alberta's vast oil and gas fields and insatiable logging industry, Peter von Tiesenhausen's isolated farm has remained relatively untouched - except by his own hand.  Using materials that the land provides - trees, wood, pulp, rock, fire, ash - von Tiesenhausen, his home, and his art demonstrate an inextricable link to nature:

I use the landscape and nature because it's right here.  I understand it better than I understand anything else.  It becomes my philosophy.  It becomes my artwork.  It is co-creating with me

 

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