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Explore the interplay between painting and the human condition. Southern California painter Sean Diediker travels to natural, spiritual and countercultural sites in Indonesia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Germany, France, Australia and the American West, visiting the places and meeting the people who inspire the original paintings featured in each episode.
Canvasing the Blue Mountains, Australia
Season 1 Episode 103 | 26m 46s | CC
Sean lives in a treehouse, meets a man who built a literal “man cave,” and finds a body painter that makes her subjects disappear into nature. Sean also interviews an Aboriginal Elder who was taken from his native family to be raised in white society – sparking inspiration for his painting “The Stolen Generation.”
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