The Pine Beetle Painters is a diverse
group of individual artists from British Columbia’s
Robson Valley, a place of spectacular beauty and remarkable
biodiversity. The group’s name arises from one of
their great local concerns: the mountain pine beetle. Over the past
decade, the beetle has ravaged our mature pine forests and changed
the nature and prosperity of our local resource economy, leaving our
communities struggling to find new directions in a new era.
As artists, we celebrate the beauty which surrounds
us and focus on the precarious balance between necessary changes and
the preservation of the wilderness for the future. The Pine
Beetle Painters each have a large body of work as individual artists,
and they have taken up the challenge of creating works on which each
of the three members has contributed. While nature often provides the
focus for their work, they intend to broaden their creativity to
their work as a group to include other styles and media.
We invite you to enjoy our first collaboration, "Mumm's the Word".
The view here is of a marshy pond along Mount Robson's Upper Loop Trail in the southeast corner of Mumm Basin at an elevation of approximately 7000 feet (2134 m). The Basin lies about 1900 feet above Berg Lake so the usual view of the lake is not visible from this location. Robson's north face with its recognizable glaciers is evident on the middle and right panel. The prominent peak to the left is Rearguard Mountain behind which lies Robson Glacier.
Mumm Basin and Mumm Peak (2962 m) were named by J. Norman
Collie, a British alpinist, in 1910 after the first man to ascend
the peak: Arnold Louis Mumm (1859-1927), an English lawyer,
publisher and noted alpinist, from the Champagne family.
Painting full size: 36 (h) x72 (w) inches (three 36x24 inch canvas
panels); medium: acrylic.
Copyright 2011, The Pine Beetle
Painters
SOLD
Purchased
by
for their Calgary
Office.
Mumm's the Word
will be on display
at
the Canoe Mountain Gallery
in the Valemount, BC Information
Centre
from 12 August to 10 October 2011.
Please
join us for an Open House and Unveiling at the Gallery on Friday 12
August from 5 to 8 pm.
The Pine Beetle Painters are:
| Pamela Cinnamon |
| Keith Heidorn |
| Bonnie Marklund |
The background for this web
page has been constructed using a photograph of needles from a
tree killed by the mountain pine beetle. It was then given a
canvas appearance and the color muted to allow the text to be
visible. The actual color of the needles can be seen in the
thumbnail on the right.