Silent Snows

"Silent Snows" features two of Stephen Lyman’s favorites: the Alaskan wilderness and the timber wolf. Steve would return home from camping trips to Denali National Park reinvigorated, impressed and inspired by the area’s vastness and beauty. The place became all the more wild to him knowing animals like the caribou, bear and wolf roamed the woods and mountains around him. A faint smell, sight or sound has brought a pause to this timber wolf’s noiseless amble over a favorite backwoods track. Familiar with the intimate rhythms of his woodland domain, he is assessing whether it is an opportunity or threat he has encountered as an early season snow envelopes the surrounding hills. Reproduced from the artist's original artwork of Oil on Canvas 34 x 16. Painted 1990.