shown this to us. The painters realized that this country couldn't be properly represented in the traditional way. Of course there were pastoral farms with cattle grazing that they could have painted, but they realized that there was so much more. To show this raw beauty they had to go out into the woods. They had to experience it. By camping where they camped, hiking up the hills that they climbed, we, in some way, have learned to appreciate this beauty as they did.”
What’s next for the art detectives now retired? “Sue and I would very much like to go back to the Arctic. There are many more locations to find and photograph.” The couple has solved almost 200 puzzles. “We are going to keep doing this until we can’t move anymore,” Jim says.
So if you are looking for gift ideas you could choose the Waddington’s coffee table book; Google: Art Gallery of Sudbury (to order a signed copy). A sleuth is also one of the English language’s trove of strange collective nouns, used to describe a group of bears.) Like various media forms there’s a difference in the artists’ motivation and how we choose to appreciate their creativity. Contact the author at [email protected]; see www.steerto.com and on Facebook, Steer to Northern Ontario and Back Roads Bill Steer.
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