This oil painting by W.P. Weston, titled Hills of New Denver, B.C. (1952), depicts a majestic mountainous landscape in British Columbia’s interior, near the historic village of New Denver. Weston captures the grandeur of the Selkirk Mountains with a precision typical of his mature style, characterised by rhythmic design, simplified form, and strong structure.

The composition features steep, green slopes rising dramatically into snow-tipped peaks beneath a serene blue sky. Light and shadow glide diagonally across the mountain faces, revealing the sculptural anatomy of the land. In the foreground, Weston places a low ridge dotted with conifers and alpine brush, providing a natural entry point into the scene and balancing the monumental scale of the background.

Unlike the atmospheric Impressionism of some of his contemporaries, Weston’s treatment is disciplined and almost architectural — his brushwork tightly controlled, his colour harmonies deliberate. The painting reflects his lifelong interest in the formal beauty of British Columbia’s topography, translating geological mass into near-abstract rhythm. The result is both a portrait of place and a meditation on structure — a hallmark of Weston’s contribution to Canadian modern landscape painting.