spotlight An artistic pilgrimage EVELYN JACOB spotlight feature AST YEAR a small community of B.C. ar- bee tists along with an army ot camp crews. volunteers, cooks, photographers and reporters banded together and made a pilgrimage to the Carmanah Valley, like t 2 characters in the Canterbury Tales. They went to the southwestern corner of Vancouver Island to celebrate and interpret the grandeur and mystery of the Magnificent ancient West Coast rainforest, The resulting hard-covered, pic- toral book, Carmanah: Artistic Vi- sions of an Ancient Rainforest, was the Western Canada Wilderness Committee’s way of saying: if we don’t preserve precious forested areas such as these, we will leave behind a terrifying legacy for our children. This year the Wilderness Com- mittee is sounding the alarm bell once again — but at a different fire. Tomorrow night, Tsitika Valley-Robson Bight, Wilderness Treasures of Land and Sea opens at the Robson Square Cor «ence Centre. The exhibit featur. + works of 100 B.C. artists - - ay of whom coniributed to the ur- manah project — and launches the Wilderness Committee’s new book, Beyond the Gate: Artists’ Journey to Save the Tsitika Valley and Robson Bight. While the lower Tsitika Valley is the last intact old-growth forested area on the east coast of Van- couver Island, Robson Bight is in- creasingly becoming a destination for a growing population of whale-watching enthusiasts. The Wilderness Committee hopes the exhibit will call atten- tion to the area which is being threatened by logging. In September, North Vancouver painter Drew Burnham, along with 34 other local artists, set sail to Robson Bight aboard a 68-foot sailboat to capture the spirit of the wilderness area. Fer two days Burnham immers- ed himself among the giant cedars and spruce and watched the killer whales rub their bellies against the pebbly harbor bottom. Old-growth forests such as the Tsitika have aroused a feeling of awe in Burnham, a feeling that, when he attempts to describe it leaves him tongue-tied, but is clearer in his art. Last year when he travelled to the Carmanah, Burnham wrote: “Slike the feeling of being in places like this, where you get an ageless, timeless, quiet feel- ing...this forest gives you an idea...and feeling that things do live for a long time. A second: growth forest doesn’t have that same depth of spiritual quality that exists among these big trees.” He describes Robson Bight as “mossy and soft,” and the Tsitika. a place where the stresses of the modern world disappear, “The trees,” he says, “are tke our vrandtathers. They have more right to be here than we do.” The result of Burnham's Van- couver Isiaad trek is a new acrylic and of on canvas, part ot a groups ented the Thought Bush Sertes. fnat, Burnham combines killer See Artist pave 34 Wednesday, December 5, 1990 - North Shore News - 29 KV27 XBRIO © 28° XBR Trinitron Monttor/Receiver # SRS ® Intelligent Video Label * Microblack Picture Tube © Pan Focus Gua e MTS Stered * Channel Jursp NV . nero Timer srt « Programmable Remote SP, ORE Control CIAL 8 AY Window A On-Screen ‘ Daplay BONUS! 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