The Vancouver Island Perspective: What Makes a Painting Canadian?

What makes a painting Canadian? Is it a maple leaf? A hockey player? A mountain? A moose standing in a snow-covered forest?

Perhaps.

But I think it can also be something much less obvious

Finding Space in a Canadian Landscape: Creating An Oversized Painting

Canada has a long and celebrated tradition of landscape painting. Most famously, the Group of Seven helped define a distinctly Canadian visual language between 1913 and 1930, transf