Previous Page, Mossleigh, oil on canvas, 40” x 30” This Page, above, Storm near Wrentham, Alberta, oil on canvas, 18” x 24”
Ted Raftery - has been painting full-time in the Calgary area since 1978. He enjoys Calgary as a base because of its proximity to the mountains, foothills, prairie and wetlands, all of which he loves to paint. Ted is also very fond of portraying the extremely changeable Alberta weather which you can see in many of his paintings. People call Alberta “Big Sky Country,” and for good reason … the sky looks very big.
It doesn’t matter that it’s the same sky we all see by day or night from wherever we are - in Alberta the sky just looks different - bigger - like some natural optical illusion designed specifically to “WOW” us out of our daily cares.