North Klondike Dempster (2020) Traditional

North Klondike Dempster (2020) TraditionalOil on canvas 24 x 30 in The current pushes against the bank while mountains wait behind the treeline a portrait of the Yukon that is both familiar and untamed.

and hear the fabric snap on the line as the kids bike past

and press toward the surface

Acrylic on canvas

The painting captures the north at its most unforgiving and most spectacular

Sentinel becomes both relic and witness

but the rhythm and density of life layered into the landscape

where people and animals work the same waters and neither fully owns them

A stand of poplars rises from a blaze of undergrowth

Sun-struck willow and alder blaze gold along the riverbank while cold water braids around a tangle of driftwood lodged mid-current

There’s a poetry in the ordinary

A fleeting slice of daily life rendered in bold

binding the intimate and the monumental into a single moment