Landscape as Muse Season II

Full Season - $69.99 CDN
(13 episodes at 30 minutes each, episodes 14 through 26)

Landscape as Muse showcases both the world-class artists and the 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. Each episode is approximately 30 minutes long.

Three of our gallery artists (Douglas Haynes, Peter von Tiesenhausen and Tom Willock) were featured in Landscape as Muse Season II and one of our gallery artists (John Chalke) is in Landscape As Muse Season V:

• John Chalke - Season V, Episode 46
• Peter von Tiesenhausen - Season II, Episode 26
• Tom Willock - Season II, Episode 25
• Douglas Haynes - Season II, Episode 18

Each single artist DVD is available in the gallery at $24.95 CDN each, scroll down for more information on each episode.

We also have a DVD with all 4 of our gallery artists, it is $34.95 CDN.

Landscape as Muse Season IV

Episodes 40 to 45

Landscape as Muse Season v

Episodes 46 to 51
The nature of inspiration

Director, Producer: Ian Toews
Regina, Saskatchewan

Season IV and V are $39.99 CDN each

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.

This episode was purchased for screening by AVRO, a large broadcaster in the Netherlands.

  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

This episode was nominated for a Gemini Award (2007) and was accepted to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula Montana (2008).

Episode 46 The Searcher John Chalke

Governor General's Award-winning ceramicist John Chalke is an explorer, cowboy, and child at heart. His search for the perfect clay leads him to Saskatchewan's Frenchman River Valley. Later in his Calgary studio, he uses both rigorous and playful techniques as well as sophisticated glazes to create experimental pieces. Finally, a firing in his kiln transforms the earth into elegant works of art.

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