Contours is an exploration into some of the nonhuman inhabitants that make up the Pacific Northwest bioregion. The paintings chronicle my love for the backcountry of these wild places, all public lands, and aim to invoke a sense of interconnectedness and beauty. Public lands (aka stolen native lands) within the Pacific Northwest region have an astonishingly diverse landscape of grasslands, steppe, mountains, deserts, forests, rivers and watersheds. Each work features of particular animal species that require unfragmented healthy habitats.

As awe-inspiring as these places can be, much of a public lands have never faced greater threats. In addition to facing the unprecedented stresses of the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse, an ever-increasing threat of selling our public lands is gaining traction in Washington, and among political leaders. Timber, grazing, mining and other extracted industries wreck ecological devastation.

My hope is that these places speak to you as they have to me, and serve as a call to arms to defend and protect them.

~Travis London