Category Archives: barns

Left to the Wind

 Rural Alberta and Saskatchewan are rife with abandoned farmsteads, this one being south of the Great Sandhills of Saskatchewan.  As farm income declines and farmers either leave for town or expand to super-size, many lovely old places are left to the elements, many communities struggle to remain viable. 

I think about that whenever I’m sitting in traffic in Calgary

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.

Bentley barn

 Time for another barn, don’t you agree?

  This old-timer is west of Red Deer, on the way to the small town of Bentley.  Like many of our barns, gravity and the prevailing SW winds, are starting to take their toll. One of these days, it will be gone, and we’ll replace it with another suburb or industrial park. In the meantime, take the time to really look at it if you should pass by. 

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.

Springtime Barn

Here’s the barn I grew up with again, as it was last week.  One of the first daily paintings I did was of this lovely old barn in winter.  This is daily painting #134 today, and as of yesterday, more than 10,000 people have looked at my blog, and nearly that many have seen the “dailies” on facebook.  I want to thank you all so very much; thanks for taking time to drop in and for your kind comments and feed-back.  For those of you who have bought one of these little paintings, a special thanks to you for helping me to continue doing my creative “work”. 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.

Sunset Barn

Old barns are some of my favourite structures; so stately, functional and beautifully proportioned. And then painted red…..so perfect.  Why don’t we build them like this anymore? This one is near the town of Stettler in central Alberta…I pass by there on occasion.  This time it was a late fall evening on my way to CFR in Edmonton…..I caught it just as the sun was going down, and now I get to share it with all of you.

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.

Ranch Wife

Last spring I accompanied my friend Kim, a well known photographer,  to some of the big ranches in the B.C. interior.  This is an another of my attempts at portraiture. I’ve tried to do justice to  one of the beautiful, strong, multi-tasking, resourceful women we encountered there.  My hats off to her, and to all ranch and farm women everywhere.

The Barn at Home

This lovely barn is the one I grew up with, and they don’t make ’em like this anymore.  I’m so grateful to my brother George, who now ranches and farms on the place we grew up on, that he cares enough to preserve it. It doesn’t get the use it did when we were kids…..no milkings twice a day for one thing, but it’s nearly 100 years old, and the home to many fond memories for all of us. SOLD

Q Ranch Barn @ Sunset

Here’s the barn at the Q….after a broken-computer hiatus.  I kept on making the paintings though, so we’ll be catching up today.  So this post is for Weds the 5th.
Love this beautiful barn and the old OLD rail corrals.  Love the tidy, well stocked tack room and being there with the corral full of snuffy horses and sleepy-eyed cowboys & cowgirls.                 SOLD