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In March 2010, after spending 4 days near the Columbia Icefield, John Hartman found himself at a heliport near Golden, BC, with a rental car, a week of free time, and his field watercolour kit. He decided to follow the Columbia River south, by driving to Revelstoke through the Rogers Pass.The result was an exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery in 2012, John Hartman: The Columbia In Canada. This is the exhibition poster from that show. John Hartman was born in 1950 in Midland Ontario, and studied Fine Art at McMaster University. He established his reputation with the exhibition Painting the Bay at the McMichael Canadian Collection in 1993. These were large-scale paintings of Georgian Bay, aerial views of the landscape, painted with thick, juicy paint. In the skies Hartman painted stories about the places depicted. Hartman continued to experiment with works that combined figurative, narrative and landscape. He received national exposure with the exhibition and book Big North which toured Canada between 1999 and 2002. Hartman’s path of painting the intimate and intertwined relationship between people and place, took a turn in 2003. He began to paint aerial views of cities as living organisms. These paintings made up the exhibition and book Cities which toured Canada and internationally from 2007 to 2009.