Painting Canadian Landscapes

Join A.Y. Jackson on his journey to Grace Lake in Killarney Provincial Park.

Film by NFB, Radford Crawley

 — Posted July 21, 2015

In this video from the National Film Board the narrator and A.Y. Jackson take turns describing scenery, travel, and the process and intentions of painting nature.

Canadian Landscape, Radford Crawley, provided by the National Film Board of Canada.
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