Viewing the Majesty of Palouse Falls

Palouse Falls in Washington State is a natural landmark of incredible beauty. A vast, powerful quantity of water cascades over the cliffs, dropping to the pool below. It is a place of incredible sound and majesty, especially in the spring when the melting snow swells the river that feeds the falls.

The original oil painting, Beholding Palouse Falls, is sold, but is available as a print from Steve Henderson Collections. It invites the viewer to step not only into a place of beauty, but into a time in the past, when the Indian people of the region lived and worked, before the influx of settlers from the East disrupted their existence. What was life like, before TV, cell phones, parking lots, and office cubicles? Modern technology is incredibly wonderful, but it's too easy to get caught up in it and forget that there are timeless elements of nature that are incredibly wonderful as well.

Two blanket clad figures blend and meld into their landscape, silent and meditative before the vista. And it is a vista to be silent and meditative before -- to contemplate the wonder and design of nature, the beauty and force of the earth, the pristine eloquence of a landscape that has not appreciatively changed for many, many, many human generations.

Bold, strong brush strokes capture both the landscapes and the figures in a subtle array of desert color.