Dead Poplar Field (2020) Northern Canada Yukon Nature Outdoors Plein Air Landscape Oil painting Original art Halin de Repentigny

Dead Poplar Field (2020) Northern Canada Yukon Nature Outdoors Plein Air Landscape Oil painting Original art Halin de RepentignyOil on hardboard20 x 24 in A stand of poplars rises from a blaze of undergrowth, the stark white trunks cutting through a field of reds, purples, and golds. The forest feels both alive and abandoned colour surging where the trees themselves have begun to fail. The painting sits inside that contradiction, finding beauty in decay. Exhibition History NorthSouth, The Old Fire Hall, Whitehorse, 2021 ProvenanceArtists Studio

Two hunters work quietly along the treeline while the morning sun hits the cliff face across the river

The painting confronts the violence of abandonment — not in the moment of death

and the landscape becoming flesh

The bar is alive

their bodies moving as one toward shelter

celebrating light as subject

and monumental

and mountains pooling together in the still water

thick with heat and late-day light

A contorted mummified figure lies before the suggestion of the city it once belonged to

The painting captures the thin line separating survival from disaster in the northern wilderness

The painting holds the sensation of walking between two worlds — one grounded in earth