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Artist’s and Photographer’s Guide
to Wild Ontario
Your Inspiration to Discover
 An Artist’s
and Photographer’s Guide to Wild Ontario (Boston Mills
Press, May 2007) featuring more than 50 studio tours and over
100 galleries, is a comprehensive resource – a must
have travel guide for anyone interested in exploring and appreciating
the great outdoors and discovering the best places to sketch,
paint, sculpt, carve and photograph the Ontario wilderness.
Author Craig Thompson, and award-winning landscape photographer
Rob Stimpson, take readers on a colourful guided tour of the
province discovering the spots where great artists like Tom
Thomson and Franklin Carmichael found scenes for their paintings,
and where artists of today follow their own creative paths.
An Artist’s and Photographer’s Guide to Wild
Ontario, organized according to the province’s major
travel regions, is a book for anyone with a creative spirit.
The authors discuss each region’s art history, provide
detailed information on unique courses and workshops, list
galleries and studio tours and profile a few of each region’s
most interesting professional and amateur artists.
This book features such iconic images as Pic Island, Lake
Superior, by Lawren Harris, which is matched with a photograph
taken today from the same vantage point used by the artist.
In putting together the book the authors clocked more than
10,000 kilometres without leaving Ontario. Among the regions
included in the book are:
- Thunder Bay and Lake Superior
- Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island
- Georgian Bay
- Killarney
- French River and Sudbury
- Temagami
- Algonquin and Cottage Country,
- Kawarthas and Eastern Ontario
- National Capital Region
- Prince Edward County
- Greater Toronto Area
An Artist’s and Photographer’s Guide to Wild
Ontario is a richly-illustrated travel guide to the great
landscapes of Ontario – the scenic vistas that have
inspired artists for the last 200 years.
About the Authors
CRAIG THOMPSON is a writer, television producer and broadcaster
who was motivated to write this book by his own love of the
outdoors and his experiences canoeing and enjoying life at
the family cottage near Algonquin Park. He is the president
of Ballinran Productions, the company behind such programs
as the Food Network’s The Manic Organic and CBC’s
Cottage Country. He lives in Stratford, Ontario.
ROB STIMPSON is an award-inning professional photographer
who specializes in outdoor lifestyle images and nature photography
workshops. His interest in the book came from his involvement
in the Arts in the Wild Alliance, an initiative that brought
together people involved in arts tourism in Ontario. He has
traveled the world, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, documenting
all manner of flora and fauna and contributes regularly to
major travel publications. He lives on Lake of Bays, near
Ontario’s renowned Algonquin Park.
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Title: An Artist’s and Photographer’s Guide to
Wild Ontario
Author: Craig Thompson
Photographer: Rob Stimpson
ISBN-10: 1-55406-433-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-55046-433-7
Specs: 7 ½ x 9; 224 pages; 200 colour photographs;
Index
Price: $ 29.95
Publication date: May 2007
Publisher: Boston Mills Press
Website: www.fireflybooks.com
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