One of the founding members of the Professional Native Artists Inc. (PINAI), Eddy Cobiness was sought out by Daphne Odjig to join the groundbreaking group. Odjig and the other members of the group laureled Cobiness as an artist, with Odjig describing Cobiness as "a beautiful painter;" Janvier sharing that "Eddy was like the consciousness of the group ... the native thinking that he brought in, the spiritual ... Sometimes we went too far and he would bring us back to earth, you know; and Joseph Sanchez shared a similar sentiment that Cobiness was a traditionalist that "kept the Group members on a more spiritual path" [1].

Cobiness's style diverges considerably from his fellow members of PINAI and those of the Woodlands School in that it is decidedly more representational. In this work, however, there is a clear sense of the ethereal, perhaps even the spiritual, present. Painted with the grace akin to the silk of a spider’s weave, Buffalo Bulls presents us with a space where the concepts of time and place seem to have dissolved, leaving an everlasting moment where this group of three bulls appear frozen in a balletic procession across the board.

1. Michelle Lavallee, 7 : Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.: Group of Seven, (Regina, SK: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2014), p. 53