Mountain Guide

If you ask long-time Rockies climber Chris Perry what he likes about writing guidebooks, he’s quick to reply.

Bright, bold colours, broad strokes, thick, rippling texture and a passion for the natural world all mark work by Canmore abstract painter Patricia Langevin.

With September having arrived in the Bow Valley with a bit of a nip in the air and some leaves yellowing on the trees, clearly summer’s over.

In the desert of the American southwest, millennium-old dust forms a film of microscopically small ball bearing-like particles across the entire moon-like landscape.

As with many singers and musicians, Belle Plaine has moved around some. She’s been there, done that, started over, held down a few different jobs, visited or lived in a number of cities.

"Don't do what I did once and melt the soles of your boots after falling asleep with your feet close to the survival campfire!" These simple and humorous words of wisdom comprise the opening sentence of one of numerous "Reality Checks" in B.C.

For many writers the setting is all-important, a central point in the story or the very reason the story exists.

Centennial Park goes to the Scots on Sunday (Sept. 2) as the Canmore Highland Games celebrates its 21st annual event.

That point of land where the prairies, mountains and sky meet is a remarkable and unique landscape and in his current body of work, Michigan painter and professor emeritus Chris Stoffel Overvoorde continues to explore that edge.

It’s not often that oil painters, especially beginning or intermediate landscape and wildlife artists, have the opportunity to learn from the likes of acclaimed wildlife painter Dwayne Harty.