Original: $880.00

Print:
Image size 17" x 7.5" - $125

Another of the paintings inspired by sketches done on boat excursions that revealed the extent of logging on our wonderful west coast. I find it hard to be agressively opposed to logging since I, and almost everyone I know, live in buildings made of BC lumber. But there are logging practices that are more sustainable and support regrowth and the health of all the other living things that interact with or are sheltered by the trees. It was a local logger who brought to may attention that the reason old growth is so special is that it has taken forever to grow, growing slowly up through a deep forest often for hundreds of years, adding narrow, tight, rot and bug resistant rings of new growth each year. Younger, artifically planted trees grow quickly in equally spaced rows and they have wide rings and are never so strong or resistant to attack. Still, I am attracted to the bold open spaces of clear cuts and their sculptural exposure of the mountain. In certain lights a clear cut can look quite beautiful.