Named one of Canada’s Top 100 Living Explorers by Canadian Geographic Magazine, Cory Trépanier carries on the tradition of painting first made famous by Canada’s Group of Seven, but with the environmental concern of a contemporary artist.
Trépanier’s Into the Arctic travelling exhibit showcases more than 50 oil paintings created over a decade as he travelled by plane, helicopter, ship, boat, canoe, and on foot, often with the Inuit across the northernmost reaches of Canada.
With a pack full of painting, filming and camping gear, Trépanier traversed over 40,000 kilometres, through six Arctic National Parks and 16 Arctic communities, in a biosphere so remote and untouched, that most of its vast landscape has never been painted before. (See the annotated map here)
As well as the paintings, there’s a series of Arctic films, the Caledon artist’s way of sharing the experience with others, including his Canadian Screen Award nominated feature length Into The Arctic II documentary.
The exhibition has already travelled extensively after its world premiere at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. in 2017. (See full tour details here)
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This is incredible. He’s really able to capture the beauty of nature on a BIG scale. We feel like we are there!
So true. There are some fascinating moments on those trailers, including when he can’t use the palette because so many mosquitoes are mixed with the paint.
Yes – even without watching the video, you can “feel” his passion in the paintings.