BOOKS
Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, by Charlotte Gill, Greystone Books
by Gina Roitman
05.02.2012
Travelling by camper van around New Zealand, a land where 70% of the endemic forests have disappeared over the last 180 years, there seemed no more suitable place to crack open Charlotte Gill’s riveting and disturbing account of 20 years as a tree-planter in the forests of Canada. Make that, a tree-planter where the forests used to be.
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ART
Eliane Smith, Centre St-Ambroise
by Sarah Fletcher
03.09.2009
“Do you know the world is beautiful?” reads the artist statement for Wilderness 2, at the Centre St-Ambroise where Canadian painter Eliane Smith presents her second show, a collection of 10 paintings. In a style Smith calls ‘Expressionist Nature’, the paintings capture the chaos and depth of nature.
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