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The Massasauga Provincial Park

Something in the Wind:

Unique perspectives of an exceptional Canadian landscape

July 9 to October 3, 2004

The Georgian Bay environment and the landscape of The Massasauga Provincial Park offer striking opportunities for artistic expression.

The landscape of The Massasauga, from its calm interior lakes to the swirling colours of Wreck Island’s rocky outcrops, offers varied and surprising visual gifts for artists. Rock formations that resemble whale bones from a great sea, an unmixed pallet of colours, texture and forms, and ancient oaks clinging to life in scant soils and standing hard against the elements. There is rawness to this land. Nothing seems settled. It’s a land of hidden treasures and wind-blown secrets. This is the appeal of The Massasauga Provincial Park.

Each year, a group of wilderness artists and photographers tours The Massasauga as part of their visual study. Starting July 9, paintings, sketches and photographs by the group of artists, who studied The Massasauga landscape in 2003, will be on exhibit at the Tower Hill Museum in Parry Sound. The exhibition is called, Something in the Wind, and includes the works of Lu Robotaille, Tony Bianco, Bev Easton, Rob Stimpson, Janine White, Paul Crosby and David Raithby.

Something in the Wind is an opportunity to view unique artistic perspectives of what is truly an exceptional Canadian landscape. The show runs from July 9 to October 3.

For more details, contact photographer and exhibitor, Rob Stimpson at canoenorth@sympatico.ca

Contributed By Rob Stimpson on behalf of Ontario’s Arts in the Wild organization www.artsinthewild.com