West Bank Portage
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
West Bank Portage
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
It was late on Saturday, the third day of the CPAWS Dumoine River Art Camp. I was all by myself and wanted to paint the shore of the west channel into Grand Chute. Canoeists appeared and exited the swift current at the portage. The alders along the shore provided varying shades of green to the composition. It was still raining but there was no lightning at least. The stratiform rain area behind the squall line of thunderstorms made everything rather dark and moody. I painted what I saw...
The Algonquins named the Dumoine River "Cakawitopikak Sipi" and "Ekonakwasi Sipi" which apparently means Alder River. I painted these alders in many of these paintings. The alder is a tree of the birch family and the genus Alnus. The 30 known species are found mainly in the northern hemisphere. There are three alders native to Canada. Alders have shallow roots, horizontal bark markings (lenticels) and elongated spring catkins. They thrive in the moist soils along the Dumoine. Shaman (medicine men), artisans and warriors used alders. The bark has been used as a throat medicine, the wood for cabinets and for bridge foundations because of endurance under water, and the charcoal as a constituent of gunpowder.
Saturday was the 140th Anniversary of Tom Thomson's birth in 1877 in Claremont, Pickering Township about 50 km east of Toronto on Lake Ontario. Tom was the sixth of ten children. Tom was only two months old when the family moved to a farm in Leith, eleven km northeast of Owen Sound. Tom died much too early just shy of his 40th birthday on July 8, 1917. I hope that Tom would have been pleased with my plein air efforts on this special day.
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