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" NAVIGATING THE RAPIDS "
Robert Bateman
500 s/n Artist Proof Paper
21.625" x 32.5"
$225
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" NEAR
GLENBURNIE "
Robert Bateman
950 s/n Paper
20" x 26"
$199
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For
some reason, this rock caught my eye while hiking.
I was excited by its form and texture and by the little
lichens that had created patterns on its surface.
The translucent, golden grass formed a counterpoint to
the solitary rock. I felt there was a
quality and a theme in all I saw there. - Robert Bateman |
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" NEW
TERRITORY- BLACK WOLF "
Robert Bateman
1500 s/n Paper
21.375" x 32"
$148
350 s/n Canvas
23" x 34"
$435
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| I have shown an adult black wolf in the last light of day, tentatively venturing into an open area. It could be a new territory which hold potential dangers or hopeful possibilities. The lead wolf is looking away from you and into the future. You are part of the following pack. If wilderness has a good future, so will humankind. Robert Bateman |
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" NEW
SEASON - AMERICAN ROBIN "
Robert Bateman
950 s/n Paper
16" x 11.5"
$265
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The
robin is fresh and ready for a new season of raising young.
The wagon wheel is very old, but when it was new, the
ancestors of this robin came and sang their spring songs in
the same way. - Robert Bateman |
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" NIGHTFALL
- EAGLE OWL "
Robert Bateman
650 s/n Paper
13.875" x 27.75"
$135
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| Found in the remnants of the great forests of northern Europe, with its range extending into Russia and Asia, the crepuscular eagle owl is very much like the North American great horned owl in appearance and size. A solitary creature, the eagle owl is most active at dawn and dusk, those transitional hours when the daylight is faint and his vision keen. Until then, he bides his time, like a statue high above the landscape, looking sternly into the shadows.
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" NORTHERN
REFLECTIONS
LOON FAMILY "
Robert Bateman
8631 s/n Paper
20" x 30.25"
$975
350 s/n Giclee Canvas 27" x 40" $1825
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I was honoured to be commissioned to do a painting which was to be the present of the Government of Canada to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales when he was married. The suggested subject of the painting was loons, which delighted me as they are among my favourite birds, with wonderful associations with the Canadian northland. Their ringing call is one of the north's most memorable sounds.The setting of the painting is in Killarney Park in northern Ontario, and the pre-Cambrian quartzite cliff, the clear water and the plants and bushes are all very typical of this part of Canada. Looking at these cliff faces is almost like looking at a painted mural. Nature has been working on it, building up a pattern of lichens and mosses and ferns. I wanted to recreate this mural effect, and established a strong abstract shape that is repeated in the reflection in a broken-up, many-faceted impressionist way. The scene is placid, but the composition's interest comes from the tension set up by having the loons in the bottom right-hand corner and the overhanging hemlock branches up on the left.The lighting is fundamental to the effect of this painting. I put almost the entire painting in shadow, with the accents coming from the highlights. The early morning light is striking across the scene, picking up just a bit of the cliff face and the heads of the two adult loons. - Robert Bateman
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" NORTHERN WETLAND "
Robert Bateman
s/n Paper
6.5" x 9" $165
99 s/n Giclee Canvas 18" x 24" $395
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