This past summer was a busy time. It saw the Trans Canada 150 exhibition in Montreal but it also saw the end of my teaching career, as I retired back to Nova Scotia from Saskatoon. With my little Matrix filled with prized possessions and my sister as navigator, we headed east along the Trans Canada highway one more time. This time, we stopped near Ottawa for a day or two. Here, we were welcomed, and refreshed, by the quiet of the Ottawa River. The colours and simplicity of the Adirondack chairs on the dock called to me. Little did I know that my sister snuck up behind me to capture a photo of the artist at work. - Alison
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On the way out of Hope, we passed another fire that was rapidly climbing a steep hillside, resisting the best efforts of the helicopter water-bombers to control it. That one looked like it was started by a cigarette butt tossed out of a car window.
This painting is in response to the pine beetles and fires, which will only become worse and more frequent with a warming, drying climate. I carved beetle tunnels into the wood panel before painting the smoke-covered forest scene. It's truly infested. -Carol
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Carol Loeb
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