“Many visitors to the Arctic view the entire encounter through the lens of a camera, as I witnessed on a recent journey when a fellow passenger boasted of snapping 16,000 frames in a fortnight. The art of Cory Trépanier serves as an inspiring and reassuring antidote to this photographic frenzy. Each painting emerges from a moment of silent contemplation, allowing the artist to hear the whispered messages of the landscape and sense a spirit of place that comes alive in each of his stunning portraits. It’s a polar world he has come to know so well, and into which he invites us in this stunningly beautiful book.”
—Wade Davis, anthropologist, photographer, and author of over twenty books, including The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
“Cory Trépanier has captured the beauty, magic, and power of the Arctic with his masterful brush, delivering us its pure essence.”
—Les Stroud, host and producer of Survivorman
“Mr. Trépanier’s extraordinary talent and deep passion for the Arctic come through in these outstanding paintings, which capture the stunning beauty of some of the most remote and wild corners of the North.”
— Jean-Marc Blais, former Director General, Canadian Museum of History
“Into the Arctic — a symphony of seascapes, landscapes, glaciers and sea ice — is a love letter to northern Canada. Every word and brush stroke speaks to us about empathy, eloquence and endurance.”
—Dr. Joe MacInnis, physician-scientist, explorer and author
“Cory has demonstrated that when you combine adventure and a paintbrush, the possibilities are endless.”
—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at the Canadian premiere of the Into the Arctic exhibition, 2018
“The Canadian Arctic is hands-down spectacular—as are Cory Trépanier’s loving and accurate paintings. Like the Arctic, his art is boundless.”
—Robert Bateman
“Like some of the great figures in polar exploration history, Cory Trépanier combines the courage and adventurousness of an explorer with the exacting skill and powerful creative vision of an artist.”
—John Geiger, CEO, The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
“Cory Trépanier captures the steadfast beauty of northerly worlds we know to be threatened. This is purity on the brink, an aesthetic as fragile and reverential as the inner life of a polar bear.”
—Michael Charles Tobias, author, filmmaker, and President of the Dancing Star Foundation
