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Cory Trépanier’s True Wild

When we all look back on this, Cory Trépanier’s contribution to our natural heritage will be priceless.
BY Marcia Ruby on

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Painter and filmmaker Cory Trépanier has visited and chronicled some of the most remote parts of Canada. He has three major painting projects, each with a film to record the adventure, and a gallery collection of breathtaking works for each area.

Painter and filmmaker Cory Trépanier has visited and chronicled some of the most remote parts of Canada. He has three major painting projects, each with a film to record the adventure, and a gallery collection of breathtaking works for each area.

Trépanier’s latest multi-year project, True Wild: A Legacy for the National Parks, began in 2013. The first chapter takes place in Kluane National Park; first stop: Mount Logan, Canada’s largest mountain. Trépanier’s Mount Logan on-location oil-on-linen (below) is a study for what will become his first major “legacy painting” for the project. In tune with Mount Logan’s magnificence, the canvas will stretch 8 to 10 feet (about 3 metres).

Cory Trépanier’s original on-location painting of Mount Logan, BC
Trépanier’s original on-location painting of Mount Logan, BC

On July 23, Trépanier launched a 20-minute version of True Wild: Kluane for Parks Canada (above; find the French version here). If you are in a real hurry, watch the one-minute version at truewild.ca. The full-length feature version will be available November 1 and can be pre-ordered now (for a chance to win one of the original paintings from Trépanier’s Kluane trek).

A\J covered Trepanier’s second journey Into the Arctic in our 2012 Art & Media issue.

Marcia Ruby is the publisher emerita and creative director of Alternatives Journal.