Join our 2025 Meadowlark Nature Festival featured artist George L. Traicheff as he discusses his life work, journey in the artworld and connection with nature. Enjoy George’s knack for storytelling in this fun and informal talk about his painting career.

GEORGE L. TRAICHEFF has lived from Atlantic to Pacific coasts. He is an artist who works in various
Mediums and subject matter and prefers to work “en plein air” as much as possible and use field sketches as well as his photography to complete larger studio works. He has studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal and the Arts Students League in New York. Upon moving west to British Columbia as a member of the RCMP, he was fortunate to meet and be taken in under the tutelage of late great artists; Clarence Tillenius and Robert Lougheed, who both have had a vast influence on George’s life and work. He has also studied and painted with other well-known artists, including, Robert Bateman, John Clymer, Harley Brown and others. He has taught painting and drawing at a number of venues in both Canada and the USA. His paintings and original prints are collected worldwide and have been published in a number of journals, magazines & books and can be found in private and corporate collections including, Michele Obama the former first lady of the United States, the Royal Collection, England, The National Gallery of Canada, the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts New York and the RCMP Museum, Regina, Sask.