Pines Rock Water 2020
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Pines Rock Water 2020
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Rumble island is very rugged. It is another of the 30,000 islands that comprise the Parry Sound Archipelago . One would have to look hard for a safe place to land a canoe. The trees were reaching toward the east with their blown over backs facing the west. Even enduring the constant pressure of the weather, these trees were doing the breathing for the planet like other trees all around the world. They seemed happy in their work.
My wife thinks I should paint more structures. My portfolio is perhaps full of too many trees, rocks and lakes. There are not many structures unless I leave the Singleton Sanctuary and that is not in the COVID cards.
Trees, rocks and lakes reminded me of the rock, paper and scissors game. That hand game is also known by other permutations such as scissors paper rock, scissors paper stone or even ro-sham-bo. Two people simultaneously form one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. These shapes are "rock" (a closed fist), "paper" (a flat hand), and "scissors" (a fist with the index finger and middle finger extended, forming a V). "Scissors" is identical to the two-fingered V sign (also indicating "victory" or "peace") except that it is pointed horizontally instead of being held upright in the air. Ro-sham-bo is a simultaneous, zero-sum game that has only two possible outcomes: a draw or a win for one player.
On the other hand, trees, rocks and lakes is a slight of hand game played with a brush loaded with oil paint. Everybody wins as long as nature is appreciated and protected. Ro-lak-tree (a name I made up) is a nature stewardship game that the Group of Seven invented when they were searching for the Canadian identity around the time of the 1918 Flu Pandemic. The portfolios of Tom Thomson and his friends who would create the Group of Seven were loaded with trees, rocks and lakes. This COVID-2019 version is my attempt to continue to record the Canada in oils. I promise to include more structures in that identity but do not expect the city scapes of glass and steel.
The 1918 flu pandemic or the Spanish flu was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The 1918 pandemic infected 500 million people which was a third of the world's population at the time. It struck in four successive waves between February 1918 and April 1920 - more than two years. The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 17 million and 50 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. Sadly history repeats itself. It is time to respect nature and to heal the scars that man-kind has inflicted on the planet.
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Comments (3)
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in the RED MAPLE GALLERY, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in ONTARIO CANADA, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
A Hillman
Beautiful composition...the horizontal/diagonal movement here is so vivid and the choppy water is perfectly rendered...amazing colors and brushwork...love the whole palette and of, course, the pops of red/orange, sienna...I don't know the names of those colors, but they are so gorgeous...great work, Phil Chadwick! l/f
Phil Chadwick replied:
Thank you again for your kind and generous support Sunny. Life is good. I have practised a lifetime on how to mix the colours I see. It is almost reflex now...