The South Saskatchewan River runs through our city and I love being near the river - gazing up and down it or looking at many close up scenes. Most of the panoramic river paintings I have done have been from a location north of Saskatoon near Petrofka Bridge where my sister and her family lived in a beautiful A - framed house with huge windows and deck overlooking the river valley.
I wondered why they would live in a place which required an hour drive to work and home again each day - but while looking after the house one summer I experienced a huge sense of relief and well-being as we crested the hill and drove into the yard. That helped me to understand. The vastness of the sky, the river spread out in both directions and finally disappearing around a bend, the prairie grasses swaying in the breeze, the shrubs and trees which fill in the dips between the hills - all add up to a wonderful sense of being at home in space and time.
Here are my latest and largest paintings of the North Saskatchewan River valley.
The first two are the scene from the house near Petrofka Bridge and the third is of the same river just west of Langham.
All are 20 x 60" done in acrylic on canvas.
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