Homage to Tom Thomson: on the aniversary of his drowning They are an inspiration to

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"I did three or four slightly different trials on this one

"The picture in the middle is a woman showing her womaness a strong woman personality

It is a beautiful and plain clapboard that I would prefer to live in if I had a choice

"I took twenty years to finish this piece

Homage to Tom Thomson: on the aniversary of his drowning They are an inspiration toacrylic and photo collage on birch panel 24 X 24 in. 2017 "At Round Lake in 2017 I asked one of my daughters friends to pose as a dead Tom Thomson. It was on the exact day of Tom's death 100 years earlier on July 8, 1917. This photo shoot took place at a lake that Tom T. enjoyed many times near Algonquin Park. I included some clear cut stumps in the background as Thomson would have hated the huge strip cutting that is now allowed to go on in his