“Escarpment Limestone Nook with Lynx Preparing for Winter Hunt”

by Harvey Bodach

Original Painting, Acrylics on Masonite Board

30” x 48”

Framed with a Classic Barn Wood Molding and Inner Liner

40” x 58.5”

Completion Year - 2020

ORIGINAL SOLD

A signed & numbered limited edition Giclée Print of painting available - Edition Size /300

There is a prominent rock ridge that spans a 1,000 mile arc across the Great Lakes region of North America. We refer to it as the Niagara Escarpment here in Ontario which can be experienced as one travel the 550 mile Bruce Trail. In ancient times a shallow tropical sea floor covered this region. Then cataclysmic upheavals, along with numerous catastrophic drainage patterns deposited layers of mud and debris to form a sea floor of sedimentary rock. With the coming of an ice age, glaciers that moved south from Canada, crossed over the area, tilting the Earth’s crust and forming a great ridge. Exposed portions of this area were then scoured of their soil and rock materials from below. As the ice sheets melted, a steep cliff face formed with waters surging forward, crumbling the weaker sandstones below and breaking off the stronger dolomite or lime stones above.

Life would return, and today, the escarpment is home to many unique plants and animals. Stone boulders that cover the floor below, its cliffs, are now covered with a flora of mosses and ferns. A great variety of animal life thrives along its length and breadth, many remaining here throughout the year. The Lynx which is one of the four wild cats in Canada, makes the boreal forest its main habitat, but will also live in the deciduous woodland forests found between farms. They favor forests with dense undercover vegetation such as thickets and deadfalls, with marshy areas and rocky outcrops. Lynx hunt mainly by sight and sound, relying on smell to a lesser extent. They usually stalk their prey to within a few bounds before pouncing, but they are also known to wait in ambush for hours, hiding in recesses of the great rocks.

(Scientific Name: Lynx canadensis)

AWARD WINNING PAINTING

Painting places SECOND in “Animalis” 2021 Juried/Sale Exhibition with Federation of Canadian Artists

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