In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson - Jim and Sue Waddington

For almost five decades, Sue and Jim Waddington have searched for places all across Canada that inspired the Group of Seven painters and Tom Thomson, taking extra joy in locating sites that can only be reached by canoe and on foot.   In 1977 the couple first meshed their love of canoeing, hiking and the Group of Seven by finding the location in Killarney Park that inspired the A.Y. Jackson 1933 painting Hills, Killarney (Nellie Lake). 

Join us as Sue and Jim take us on a journey about their adventures, showing their photographs alongside art from Killarney, Algonquin, Neys, Lake Superior and Bon Echo Provincial Parks, the Georgian Bay Islands, Nova Scotia, BC, the Yukon and Nunavut. Their talk compares photographs of Group of Seven artwork with their own photos of some of the 800 painting sites they have found. They discuss how they find the painting sites and what they have learned about the painters and their art.  For more information see the CBC news article:   Hamilton couple finds over 800 real Group of Seven landscapes | CBC News

PS - Jim is a retired physics professor from McMaster University who likes maps and the sport of orienteering and Sue is a retired nurse.