Ken van Rees
  • Home
  • About
  • Gallery
    • Available Paintings
    • Ecological Art For Sale >
      • Charcoal Art
      • Soil Art
  • Soil & Charcoal Art
    • Charcoal Art >
      • SK Arts Board Project >
        • McLennan Lake Summer 2022
        • McLennan Lake Winter 2023
        • Fort a la Corne Summer 2022
        • Fort a la Corne Winter 2023
        • Project Outcomes
    • Soil Art
  • Photos/Videos
    • Lake O'Hara 2024
    • Newfoundland 2023
    • Haida Gwaii 2019
    • Germany 2018
    • Algonquin 2017 >
      • Algonquin 2017 videos
    • Building Studio
    • Lac La Ronge 2016
    • PANP 2016
    • Ellesmere Island July 2013 >
      • Ellesmere Island Videos >
        • Twin Glacier Video
        • Painting Alexandra Fiord video
        • Polar bear video
        • Changing Tide video
    • Algonquin Provincial Park Oct 2012
    • Ivvavik National Park June 2011
    • Other Trips >
      • Lake O'Hara Jerry Markham workshop
      • PANP
      • Cypress Hills
  • Virtual Water Gallery
    • Previous Shows >
      • Regina Show April 2023
      • Saskatoon Fall Show 2020
      • Saskatoon Club Show
      • Edge of the World Show
      • Ancient Pathways Show
      • Regina Show 2019
      • Saskatoon Show 2018
      • Germany Show May 2018
      • Regina Show 2018
      • Saskatoon 2017
      • Regina 2017
      • Regina 2016
      • Soil Art Exhibition 2015
      • Saskatoon 2015
      • FML Algonquin Show 2015
      • Soil and Art Exhibition Long Beach CA 2014
      • Saskatoon Show 2014
      • Rosthern Show 2014
      • Regina Show April 2014
      • La Ronge Show 2014
      • Saskatoon Show 2013
      • Black Spruce Gallery Show August 2013
      • Hague Gallery Regina Show April 2013
  • MWP
  • ELKC
  • Contact
  • The Green Painting
  • new book

McLennan Lake Summer 2022

The McLennan Lake area was burned in the Gray Fire (all provincial forest fires are given a name) of 2021. Canvases were placed in the burnt forest June 17, 2022 and collected on October 6, 2022. The raw canvas was stretched over a birch panel and burnt logs were placed on the canvas in a random arrangement or in some design. Half of the canvases had a shelter (plywood on legs) placed overtop the canvas to exclude the natural elements. Trailcams were set up to take a photo every hour of the installation for the approximately 5 month period that the canvases were laying on the burnt forest floor.  Images and short videos of the installation are shown below.

​Usually around 5000 images were collected from the trailcams and then put into a movie format - videos were compressed into a longer and shorter version and are presented here. In the upper left corner you can see the date and time and upper right the air temperature.
Vertical Divider
Long version
Short version
Copyright © Ken van Rees 2025. All rights reserved
Contact     Powered by Weebly