Haycock painted in the Rockies in the 1950's and again in the 1970's. He preferred painting major features from a greater distance, so that he could compose a foreground from which to lead to the background. However, he did keep several majestic canvases in his own personal collection.

Relatively few paintings of locations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan exist. Haycock painted at Beaverlodge Lake and Lake Athabaska in northern Saskatchewan on the way North in the 1950's. Whiteshell Park in Manitoba was a popular painting outing when he got together with his friend, sculptor and painter Leo Mol of Winnipeg.