Films
Landscape artist Mark Brennan delves into the motivation for his wilderness landscape paintings & photographs, as he continues to explore the contemporary human place in the wild landscape during a canoe journey into the Tobeatic Wilderness of Nova Scotia, Canada. For those interested, Mark and five friends paddled into Whitesand Lake in June 2017. After heavy rain and thunder storms they made the journey up into Moosehide Lake where the carry into the famous Shelburne River can be found. Mark Brennan is a long time landscape artist and advocate for wild nature, working in painting and medium/large format photography.
Landscape Painter Mark Brennan works on location in the early Spring woods of Nova Scotia.
Landscape Painter and Nature Recordist Mark Brennan explores our connection to nature during a canoe journey into the wilderness of Nova Scotia.
Canadian Landscape Painter, Mark Brennan, works on location in early March at a frozen winter wetland in Northern Nova Scotia.
"I have been visiting this remote Nova Scotia lake for over 20 years, I love the serenity of the winter, the calm and the a chance to paint on location here." Mark Brennan.
Landscape Artist Mark Brennan sketches a remote wilderness bog in Eastern Canada during early October. Working in pastels, he explains a little about his thought process as he works on location.
2011. The ‘Art Of The Wilderness’ is about a journey back into the deep woods of Nova Scotia to seek out a small painting done on the wall of a cabin some 15 years earlier. On this occasion the artist, Mark Brennan, takes his daughter with him to help bring her closer to the natural world, to form the deep bond with ‘wilderness’ that will carry her through her own life.
The Acadian Forest, 2012
This film is a response to the loss, by clear cutting, of a piece of Acadian Forest in my local area by Wagner Forest Management Ltd in the fall of 2010. This ecosystem backed onto a large wetland and was part of a watershed for a nearby river. Phone calls to the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources Biologist were brushed off. Fast forward to 2021 and Nova Scotian’s are still seeing the Acadian Forests demise although there has now been many new protected areas developed. There has been some progress, but more required.
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