Robert Bateman

This past summer, fifty of BCs most celebrated artists took a journey up the coast, into the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. Five-hundred kilometres north of Vancouver is a wild coastline: home to the Spirit Bear and whales, wolf packs and grizzlies, First Nations and coastal communities. With the looming threat of a proposed oil pipeline and hundreds of oil tankers a year, it is a magical place on edge.
This interview with Robert Bateman is additional footage from the trip and the film, REFLECTIONS: ART FOR AN OIL FREE COAST, which shares the story of a Raincoast Conservation Foundation expedition into a stunning and remote landscape, weaving together the artists' work and their emotional response to a people and a region at risk.

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Canada's best artist. Period.

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I am inspired by your work Mr. Bateman.