An episode of Landscape As Muse was on the Knowledge network. It was episode 49 from Season 5 called “The West Coast with Takao Tanabe” the following is the description of the show.

” A critic once remarked that if you’ve seen one Tanabe, you’ve seen them all. Revered painter Takao Tanabe doesn’t disagree with this statement, yet it hasn’t stopped him from painting landscapes for the past thirty-five years.A close examination of his canvasses reveals subtle changes in atmosphere, colour, tone and a lack of visible brush strokes.

Camera and sketchbook in hand, Tanabe travels on land and sea in the North Vancouver Island area, bringing six decades of painting history to bear on the vistas and horizon line of the sea and islands.”

This file is 61MB, it is the episode converted to flash video.