Inside Out
The Work
This bright and bold stucco mural has the colours and imagery that are loosely inspired by some of Bruce’s favorite childhood cartoons. She wanted to capture a summer mood, but from inside instead of out.
Boost
The Work
Mashed up urban/city elements and natural/organic elements create the piece. Bright abstract shapes and splashes are the representation of people’s energy and diversity/chaos in urban life. Those urban/city elements assemble into organic shapes of local BC wild animals.
Full Circle
The Work
Sandeep Johal’s mural is entitled Full Circle. She was born and raised in Kelowna and spent much of her formative time in Rutland, so it was especially meaningful for her to paint a mural in her hometown. She wanted to boldly express the pride she feels in her identity through the vibrant colours and patterns of her South Asian heritage.
Dreamscape
The Work
Priscilla Yu’s paintings are often colourful mental landscapes that play with the visual cues of perspective, and the familiarity in the patterns that are found within nature on varying scales -- ie. black marks on a cow echo the contours of water masses on a map and share the formation pattern of raindrops on a car window. 'Dreamscape' is an immersive mural with an on-going series of mental landscapes. With the extension of the mural from the vertical walls onto the ground, observers are placed in a personal relation to the mental landscape.
Ogopogo + Friends
The Work
This mural depicts a gathering of funny heterogeneous characters in a Kelowna ambiance. It celebrates the richness of difference and multiculturalism in a fantastic and playful way.
Fire Season
The Work
Kevin Ledo’s artwork is titled "Fire Season," which depicts a boy’s face, in an abstracted landscape that suggests the lake, mountains and fire in the distance. The boy, Atticus, who he photographed when he first got to Kelowna, has a surprised and concerned expression on his face. Ledo was lucky to not have had any issues with smoke or fire during his visit, though it was a concern when he first set out to paint in the Okanagan, and is what eventually inspired this artwork.
Wonder Full
The Work
For this project, Jorden Doody lead a group of Rutland Senior Secondary students, through the process of collaborative mural production. The RSS students were thrilled to work one on one with Jorden to design and pitch a series of compositions to the city parks officials. Once they had an approved design, Jorden and the students set out on a weeklong summer painting workshop full of laughs and colour.
Lifted
The Work
The mural Lifted, was co created by Jorden and David Doody along with Jeremy Schantz. The mural depicts a gloved hand reaching down to pick up a long stemmed flower. The black and white background is distorted in a vibrant echo of colours from the hands reach into the static universe of the painting.