Wind Blown #1
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Wind Blown #1
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
There are many trees in Canada but this one is possibly "The Tree". This highly flagged Tree is quite possibly the most photographed individual tree in Canada if not the world. I had already painted "The Tree" in painting number 2049 looking northwestward. Outside it was a windy and cold day under the polar vortex so I decided to revisit the tree in the Singleton Studio. This time I would be viewing the tree from the north looking southeastward.
The Tree was anchored with almost no soil in a crack chiseled in the granite. The prevailing onshore winds had flagged it over time so that it grew more horizontally than vertically. I was just one of many people who took pictures of that tree. This view looking toward the light and the southeast in the early afternoon is not one I would have selected while en plein air. The tree was shadowed and dark and maybe a bit haloed by the sun to the south. Cumulus were developing vigorously where the onshore winds reached the land.
It is much better to be a flagged tree than a broken one. One needs to grow with the elements rather to be constantly at war with the forces that shape nature.
The clumps of vegetation on the granite point provide vital shelter for the snakes that frequent Killbear Provincial Park. I encountered a rather large and beautiful eastern fox snake. The eastern fox snake is endangered. The populations are doing OK on the inaccessible rocky islands offshore in Georgian Bay but apparently these snakes leave their island sanctuaries for the mainland to select breeding sites. They often swim 10 kilometres or more in straight lines in order to mate. Once on the mainland, these long snakes are susceptible to humans. After mating they return to their island homes.
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