“My horses and I stood transfixed as a beautiful dark grizzly and her cub grazed nonchalantly beside us on the trail.” 1994
When Canadian artist Maureen Enns set out to focus on grizzlies in 1991, she had no idea she was embarking on a personal odyssey. Soon she was venturing into the remote backcountry of Alberta’s Banff National Park with her horse and pack-horse in search of bears. Terrified at first she discovered after 3 summers of riding miles of the Park’s trails that there was a mystery unfolding. The grizzly was perhaps not the serial killer of popular myth it was made out to be.
Grizzly Kingdom is a story of Maureen’s struggle to find grizzlies in Banff National Park and to reveal on canvas and film this majestic symbol of a fragile wilderness. The resulting art exhibition at Calgary’s Triangle Gallery, book and CBC TV documentary brought the project to a conclusion before she left for the Russian Far East in 1994 to further her study of grizzly bears as a misunderstood species.
When Canadian artist Maureen Enns set out to focus on grizzlies in 1991, she had no idea she was embarking on a personal odyssey. Soon she was venturing into the remote backcountry of Alberta’s Banff National Park with her horse and pack-horse in search of bears. Terrified at first she discovered after 3 summers of riding miles of the Park’s trails that there was a mystery unfolding. The grizzly was perhaps not the serial killer of popular myth it was made out to be.
Grizzly Kingdom is a story of Maureen’s struggle to find grizzlies in Banff National Park and to reveal on canvas and film this majestic symbol of a fragile wilderness. The resulting art exhibition at Calgary’s Triangle Gallery, book and CBC TV documentary brought the project to a conclusion before she left for the Russian Far East in 1994 to further her study of grizzly bears as a misunderstood species.
