Beside the Pines

Beside the Pines
Chris Simrose
Acrylic
Vanderhoof
2007

Noonday

Noonday
Kim Stewart
acrylic on paper
Prince George
2006

A reaction to the changing light over the stands of healthy and dead trees.

Summers Return. Will the Pine Trees?

Summers Return.
Will the Pine Trees?
Shelby Legebokoff
Sowchea Elementary School, Grade 5
Ft St James
Watercolour
2007

The Sunset Trees

The Sunset Trees
Pita Rokoratu
Sowchea Elementary School, Grade 6
Watercolour
Ft St James
2007

Standing Dead Still

Standing Dead Still
Aura Russell
Sowchea Elementary School, Grade 6
Watercolour
Ft St James
2007

Firewood

Firewood
Judith DesBrisay
Acrylic on canvas
Quesnel
2003

My partner and I live at a wilderness meadow with mixed forest surround in British Columbia’s Central Interior region. Our home was constructed using logs from this natural resource. Seasonally we have selectively harvest trees from the forest to split and stack in readiness for use as firewood: to stave off the winter’s lessening chill. The once living forest is now a mixed palette of red pine skeletons whose stark remains may well provide fuel for an unprecedented blaze. I wonder if recollections of the forest and all the birds, insects, mammals that once inhabited its living presence are imbedded in the firewood. Will these memories be released in the flames of our hearth-fire/the landscape/human memory or will they smolder among the dying embers?

New Beginnings- A study at Dawn

New Beginnings- A study at Dawn
Marion Mills
Oil
Vanderhoof
2007


The Beetles have hit our forests hard as shown in the background of this painting and even the trees in the park area are dead. The old tree fort, my children built years ago, depict the happiness and innocence of another healthier time. I love the play of light at dawn and dawn itself radiates hope for a better day. Always the optimist, I see new pine trees regenerating everywhere and I wanted to communicate this.
Barry made the frame out of bug-wood.

Bark beetle 78

Bark beetle drawing #78
Annerose Georgeson
Photocopy transfer, ink
Vanderhoof
2002

These drawings were part of a series I did called Secret Language, where I compared the shapes in nature to the shapes of script.