Category Archives: badlands

Evening @ Five Bends

Good friends live south of Suffield, right on the S. Saskatchewan River, and I have a standing invitation to go there and paint.  From the top of the hill, above the ranch buildings there’s this incredible view. You can see 5 bends in the river, looking downstream, and the Cypress Hills on the horizon.  The rugged, badlandy river breaks are home to everything from dinosaur bones to jackrabbits & rattlesnakes. I often sit right here and paint; have done this view so many times I can draw it in my sleep.  And I never tire of it. SOLD

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Katherine & Chester @ Horse Thief Cave

Writing-On-Stone is a magical place, and a highlight on trail rides down there is Police Coulee.  What sounds quite innocent is revealed to be more like a canyon, and was the conduit for whiskey traders and horse thieves back & forth across the American line.  Here’s my friend Katherine and the famous Chester at Horse Thief Cave.  They have a thuggish look about them don’t you agree? 
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If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Badlands @ Redcliff

If you’ve been watching my work for long, you’ve probably seen this type of landscape behind my horses, from time to time. This landscape is typical of much of the river valleys throughout  the great plains and provides endless entertainment for we artists…..trying to get the colours and contours right can have you squirrely at times!

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

The Big Cheese

This guy is “The Big Cheese” in a herd of several hundred Bison living just east of Medicine Hat, and sometimes if you’re lucky you can see them from the Trans Canada Highway. Maybe they’ll be strung out across the flat, and sometimes they’re standing out against the sky on big badlands bluffs.  If  you stop and find a place to watch awhile,  you might be able to convince yourself for a moment that the last 200 years didn’t happen.