Cory Trépanier

Cory Trépanier (born December 14, 1968 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian landscape painter and filmmaker best known for his detailed oil paintings of the Canadian wilderness. He is also the creator of three films documenting his extensive painting journeys: A Painter's Odyssey, Into The Arctic and Into The Arctic II.

Cory Trépanier
Canadian landscape painter and filmmaker

Biography

After graduating from Humberview Secondary School in Caledon, Ontario, Trépanier studied illustration at Sheridan College for four years. The ensuing decade saw Trépanier freelance as an illustrator, creating paintings for numerous advertising agencies, magazines and government organizations, including the National Capital Commission, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.

In 1997, Trépanier's career began to shift from commercial illustration to the pursuit of his fine art: painting the Canadian landscape in oils.

Painting and television projects

In 2001, Trépanier launched his Coast To Canvas Project.[1] Often accompanied by his wife, Janet, and two young daughters, Trépanier painted, filmed, canoed, hiked and camped for almost a month in each season along the coasts of Ontario's Lake Superior and Georgian Bay, a region then designated as the Heritage Coast. This led to the Coast To Canvas Exhibition Tour in 2004 consisting of over thirty oil paintings and a one-hour documentary called A Painter's Odyssey, Cory and Janet's first film.

In 2006, Trépanier launched Into The Arctic Project: An Artist's Journey to the North,[2] a multi-year painting project that has seen him undertake three extensive painting/filming expeditions to the Canadian Arctic. He is developing an unprecedented collection of fifty original oil paintings of the Arctic, including a 15 foot wide by 5.5 foot high canvas called Great Glacier, which will become one of the largest oil paintings ever from the Canadian Arctic.

In addition to sharing his experiences through online video journals, photography, writing, public speaking and the media, Trépanier has also created two films from his Arctic project: Into The Arctic, and Into The Arctic II, which have been broadcast on numerous networks including CBC Documentary,[3] HIFi,[4] Bravo, Canal D, APTN, SCN, CLT and on selected networks internationally.

Awards

In 2005, A Painter's Odyssey won the Best Environmental Documentary at the Waterwalker Film Festival.

In 2013, Trépanier's Into The Arctic II documentary was nominated for Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series [5] at the Canadian Screen Awards (formerly the Geminis).

Associations

In 2009, Trépanier became a Fellow of The Explorers Club.

In 2012, Trépanier became a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

References
  1. Smedley, James "Coast to Canvas", In the Hills, Summer 2003
  2. "Cory Trépanier's Big Northern Dream", In The Hills, March 2012
  3. Into The Arctic II on the CBC Documentary Channel
  4. Into The Arctic II on HiFi
  5. Nominations for 2013 Canadian Screen Awards Archived 2013-01-23 at the Wayback Machine
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