During recent trips into northern Ontario I've become impressed by the signage along the highways, which comes across
as a stimulating combination of commercial and folk art. These signs advertise various towns, lodges, local businesses
(such as wilderness guides and air transport services) and so on. Imagery representing the landscape and wildlife is
prominent, vivid and often rendered in 3-dimensional form. The work shown above has been inspired by those signs.

Canoe Lake, in Algonquin Park, will always be associated with Canada's seminal and legendary artist and woodsman
Tom Thomson, who frequented this area and used it as subject in many of his paintings. In July 1917, Thomson's body
was found floating in the middle of Canoe Lake, and there have always been questions as to how he died. Doubts were
expressed as to how a man with Thomson's skills as an outdoorsman could have drowned, and rumours persist that he
might have been murdered or accidently killed in a brawl, and his body dumped in the lake to cover things up.