Acrylic and Coloured Pencil on Birchbark on Plywood. 72 x 48 inches 2020
August 14, 2017
Canoedeling
Acrylic and Coloured pencil on Birchbark on Plywood 13.5 x 20.6 inches 2009
May 24, 2017
Mountains of my Life: Detail 5
Acrylic and Epoxy on Cardboard on Birchbark 2016
Calvary,
Jesus’ mountain of Defeat and Victory
Defeating sin and death
The Victory of Love
May 22, 2017
Mountains of my Life: Detail 4
Acrylic, epoxy and cardboard on Birchbark 2016
A mountain of Adventure
Machu Pichu,
Mountains of Revelation
and Conversion,
my cabin at the foot.
May 13, 2017
Mountains of my Life: Detail 3
Epoxy and cardboard on Birchbark 2016
A volcano becomes an island of forests,
in the middle of a mighty river.
Home of the Mohawk (Haudenosaunee)
Then the Holy settlement of Ville-Marie,
Mount Royal,
Montreal my city of français and english
and now the nations of the world come to us.
May 12, 2017
Mountains of my Life: Detail 2
Epoxy and Cardboard on Birchbark 2016
Atop Lyon mountain, a watch tower
To look across the valleys for fire and call out a warning
I took a warning in my soul.
May 10, 2017
Mountains of my Life: Detail 1
Epoxy and Cardboard on Birchbark 2016
On life’s journey in this delicate vessel
With my Jeannie before me
Across the lake to Parson’s Knob.
May 6, 2017
Mountains of my Life
Acrylic, Epoxy, Cardboard, Metal, Glass, and China on Birchbark on Plywood
81 x 46 inches 2016 nfs
This is one solid piece of Birchbark found in the woods by my friend Libby.
(Thanks Libby.)
When it was glued down on the plywood it became like a map or a landscape painting.
I included small interventions to distinguish the mountains.
Details will follow.
NFS
Peter Aitkens 