Mowat
by Phil Chadwick
Title
Mowat
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
This is number thirty-one in the Canoe Lake Paddle as numbered along the path of the paddle. I had bumped into a couple of other Tom Thomson enthusiasts that I knew. Together we were going to visit Mowat Cemetery. We beached our canoes at the culvert on the access road so as not to cross any cottage property. This view of forest would have been just across that road from near the centre of Mowat in the hay day of the Gilmour Lumber Company. Nature has certainly returned to what was once a denuded landscape. The forest has reclaimed the land. I saw where a probably alarmed moose had recently leapt from the road into the bush. The paddle had evolved into a walk and this was the Mowat Cemetery portion of the pilgrimage.
The path into Mowat Cemetery is well trodden but certainly unmarked. The forest has grown to erase most of the traces of the Gilmour Lumber Company. If my friends had not already known the way, I might have easily missed the down trodden grasses marking the narrow path.
The feel of the painting is a strong function of the smooth but textured surface, the bold strokes and the aging oils. I was still working with the original palette of paint from several weeks before. Some of the oils were getting gooey. I was just adding new pigments as I needed them. Waste not, want not... I used a lot of paint on this small and very slippery surface. I simply laid the oils in and tried to leave them alone - continued stroking of the paint would turn the oils into mud. I scratched my signature into the wet paint with a tooth-pick.
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February 5th, 2017
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