Evelyn Dunphy Artist Statement: I'm deeply drawn to the northern landscape, from Maine to Newfoundland and Labrador. I've hiked through the woods to a wilderness camp on Katahdin Lake in northern Maine and slept in a bunk bed in a hundred year old log cabin - to get up at dawn and be taken by a Maine guide down the lake to a remote spot and dropped off to paint by myself with only the sound of wind and waves lapping on the shore. Katahdin was every imaginable shade of blue until snow fell, and a necklace of pink, gold and orange of autumn leaves sparkled through its white coat like a necklace. I've taken a boat eighteen kilometers down a freshwater fiord in Gros National Park in Newfoundland where twenty-five hundred foot cliffs soar above the narrow passage and black bears fish on the shore; traveled a thousand miles up the Labrador coast to the northernmost village of Nain, in and out of tiny settlements where the only means of supply was the freighter that brought them everything from lumber to cook stoves to sled dogs and pickup trucks. The people are rooted in the landscape: tough, tender, rich in culture and generosity and sadly, often facing a bleak, uncertain future.
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