The Landscape as Muse series explores the connection between art and environment through two main components: 1) the artist and his/her process, and 2) the geography/location. For each episode the artist is filmed creating art in a unique, often remote natural location. They reflect and comment on their working process, their sources of inspiration, and influences drawn from the surrounding environment. Each season features episodes from various regions across Canada.
Landscape as Muse is an informational and cultural documentary program that appeals to a diverse and discerning public. It is created for broadcast on specialty and educational television channels and for use within the public education system, universities, art galleries, and libraries. Landscape as Muse provides television audiences the means to expand the way they look at, think about, and interpret nature and art. The show airs in Canada on Bravo!, SCN, and Knowledge Network, and CBC Documentary and bold, and on AVRO in the Netherlands.
The documentary series has featured installation artists, sculptors, carvers, painters, indigenous artists, and photographers. We have filmed in forests, mountain ranges, grasslands, deltas, plains, ocean shores, deserts, and lakes, in all kinds of weather and in all seasons. Some of the artists in the first four seasons include Richard E. Prince, Peter Von Tiesenhausen, Douglas Haynes, Bob Boyer, Edward Burtynsky, Jane Ash Poitras, and Aganetha Dyck.
In Landscape as Muse, the correlation between land and artwork is continually examined.
Overall this serves to develop a greater understanding and
appreciation for art-making and the natural regions of Canada. Landscape As Muse's
uniqueness is that it provides television audiences with the
opportunity to expand their ways of looking at, thinking about, and
interpreting art, while featuring nature in all its grandeur and subtlety.
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