By Paddle and Paintbrush
HOW DO YOU GET MORE PEOPLE TO APPRECIATE THE BEAUTY OF A PLACE LIKE THE GEORGE RIVER?
YOU LET THEM SEE IT THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST. Photography by Gary McGuffin
to motivate people you have to in- volve the heart, not just the mind,” says Mullen. “Plus,” he adds, “ I was tired of tripping alone and wanted some company.” In 2005 Mullen formed the
Wilderness River Expedition Art Foundation and, along with photo- journalists and paddlers Gary and Joanie McGuffin, led an 18-day trip on Quebec’s George River last Sep- tember with four other acclaimed wildlife and landscape painters. Paintings from the trip will form the “Visions of the Boreal Forest”
exhibition in the Smithsonian Mu- seum of Natural History next year in Washington, D.C., before touring to cities across North America. Mullen hopes the exhibition will
connect a few dots for people. “As resources around the world dwin- dle, the market is driving prices up and now it’s feasible to run a road deep into the forest to haul stuff out,” says Mullen. “Development has to be guided by something oth- er than just our consumptive appe- tites. We’re trying to show people where their junk mail comes from.”
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