Resting in the Roots of the Grandmother Canvas Wrap Print
Relax and breathe in the thick damp air, rich earthy aromas greet you with every inhalation. Feel the weight slide from your shoulders as you slip off your shoes and allow the dewy moss to tickle your toes. Exhaling you look up, way up at the dappled light in the canopy of the old growth trees. All around you is the chatter of little Kinglets and great Ravens high above. This is home.
Printed on truly archival, museum-grade canvas, often hard to tell from an art original. Made locally with salvaged island wood for the stretcher bars. Carefully coated finish for protection, hardware attached and ready to hang.
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15% of sales of this print will be donated to the Fairy Creek Blockade via the Rainforest Flying Squad who are protecting old growth forests on Vancouver Island.
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Grandmother Tree is located in the old growth rainforests of Vancouver Island. I once had the opportunity and privilege to travel to this place and sit at the base of this enormous Grandmother Cedar. The photos from that day have been my inspiration for this painting.
On the Tree Farm License 46, an area of about 206,000 acres, Fairy Creek is an old-growth forest covering an area of about 5,140 acres. It’s believed to be the last unprotected old-growth watershed on southern Vancouver Island that hasn’t been touched by logging. There are no roads leading into this steep river valley surrounded by densely-forested mountains. Bears and cougars roam the stands of lichen-draped yellow cedars, some of which measure nearly ten feet in diameter. When seen from the aerial photos used by logging companies—who know this region as Tree Farm License 46—Fairy Creek appears as a continuous strip of dark green velvet surrounded by the tan-colored scabs of clear cuts.
(Fairy Creek is located on the unceded lands of the Pacheedaht First Nation, which means the movement to protect these lands inherently intersects with issues of indigenous rights and sovereignty.)
Up the mountain behind protestor blockades lays the Rainforest Flying Squad encampment known as River Camp. Here two mammoth cedars that have been dubbed Grandmother and Grandfather, line the rugged road. Nearby Granite Creek gushes through one end of the site, with waterfalls for jumping and tranquil pools for bathing. Unlike Fairy Creek Headquarters on the mountainside below, here there’s not a single clear cut in sight, and hopefully that will always remain so.