Category Archives: barns

Barn @ Echodale

I spent a beautiful morning painting on the hillside above the buildings at Echodale this summer.  What a lovely old white barn, of the style built around here about 100 years ago.  There are still quite a few of these around the countryside, but not many are as well-preserved as this one.  The spectacular setting of the S. Saskatchewan River valley doesn’t hurt either.

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.

Sundown Barn

No painting for you today…too many projects happening and not enough time!  it felt really weird not to paint…or even DRAW today!  Instead lots of computer time, which I swear rots my brain!  
This photo is from my latest cross-country road trip…that gravel road I’d never taken before, which heads straight east at Rolling Hills and winds up in the middle of nowhere.  I love it.  And Look at the beautiful barn I found.  Remember this story next time you want to take the pavement instead of the gravel!

Farmstead and the Rockies

 This is one of the scenes I encountered this weekend on my travels to a family wedding. Another abandoned farmstead stands in a sea of wheat, presided over by the rusting old wind mill.  Such a nostalgic and now a very common sight! 

Imagine coming here a century or more ago to find the pristine spot this must have been, and carving out your livelihood, and community in such a place and at such a time. 

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.

Hens @ Dorothy

The last time I was through the little hamlet of Dorothy on the Red Deer River, I found this little clutch of red hens, free-ranging it out amongst the sagebrush.  When I find scenes like this, I get that powerful nostalgic feeling that hankers for an older, simpler time. Meanwhile, I’m checking my smartphone to see if I have any emails.   
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.

Cochrane Barn

On my recent road trip to the mountains, I stopped in at Cochrane for a bit.  This formerly sleepy little cowtown tucked into the foothills of the Rockies, is now a happening place as Calgary creeps (and leaps!) ever closer. 
I was glad to see that this red barn, like an old friend, is still part of the landscape.

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $120 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Little Ol’ Truck

This Little Ol’ Truck showed up at the Bassano Homecoming this summer, along with a lot of other neat old jalopies, cars, tractors and such.  I can’t remember what this truck was; maybe some of you know.  It’s nothing I’d ever heard of before, and so cute I had to paint it.  

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.

Old Shop, Quilchena Ranch

This is just one of the many lovely old buildings in the several ranch yards we visited when at Quilchena Ranch last spring. There were shops and smithy’s and barns, all so well laid out and beautifully built. These were needed to keep the ranch operational, back in the days when they had to rely on themselves to keep things fixed, shod and running.  Many ranches then even had a schoolhouse.
They still have all the equipment but the fixing etc is done in town and the buildings …except for the barns which are still well used, wear a mantle of that fabulous nostalgia that hooks me every time.

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.

Quilchena Corrals

 Here are the corrals and barn at one of the beautiful ranch yards owned by the Quilchena Cattle Company, near Merritt B.C. Not only are the barns especially stately in B.C., they build those beautiful pole corrals with high cross bars, and the effect is that the buildings, corrals, animals and people all seem like an extension of the gorgeous landscape.  It’s time for a road trip to B.C.!      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.

Setting Sun Barn

There’s a ranch hidden in a coulee on the south slope of the Cypress Hills. and this stately old barn  presides over the yard from it’s position in the side of the hill. It was built in 1914, so it’s nearing it’s 100th birthday, and it’s as solid and functional as ever.  I love the unusual white body with red trim, which is the opposite of  the norm…but this isn’t just your ordinary barn. Further evidence of that is the taxidermied longhorn head mounted on the front.  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.

Barn @ The Pinhorn

This lovely old barn is situated down on the Milk River in the far southern edge of the province. The Pinhorn is the name of a grazing reserve, and the headquarters are located in a deep and rugged  part of that beautiful little river’s basin.  This country is still wild and remote, full of all kinds of natural dangers. The young cowboys who work here are hardy and resourceful, reminding  me of some of the rugged individuals I knew as a child, my own parents included. It’s like a “reality check” from the world we now inhabit. 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.