N.D. Chris Stoffel Overvoorde's vision of western lands provides a quite different orientation to the question of spirituality and the land from that of Smith. His View South From Writing On The Stone Park, Alberta stands, like Eddy's work, in the Western naturalist tradition. Overvoorde gives visual realization to an attitude of those who cultivate the land and are subject to nature's order and unpredictability at once. Such people tend to be religious, knowing their lives are reliant on forces bigger than they are, forces beyond their control. The artist communicates smallness and awe on his part, in relation to the power of his God.
Space reaches back deeply to an unlimiting horizon.
Sky arches above. The two exchange dynamically, skyscape and landscape join. The viewer witnesses this reciprocity, participant in nature's sublime dignity. As a drawing, this work of art enables us to experience most directly and intimately something of what it is to experience such a world. Nature is described but not rendered topographically.