ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY
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It was a good day…raining and grey but out of the blue some news came about a project I have been working on for all long time.. Great big exciting news..and yet the biggest part of the feeling of yahoo the freaking yahoo…was knowing that a large part of the success of your work comes…
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Most women would be over-the-moon after meeting some of the hottest country music artists in the world, but for Vernon’s Michelle Loughery, it’s all in a day’s work. For the past five years, the local artist, whose colourful murals around Vernon show the area’s history and culture, has been working in Canada’s country music capital…
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Getting a strategy for an art project is a big amount of work. When they are community based projects…even more work. But when the paint is ready to flow…it seems that all the work just seems to be the road to the time when the blue flows… bulk food containers..a muralists best friend..
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ROUTE BLUE HAPPY TRAVELER LORRIE FLEMMING photo by Lorri Flemming MURAL Artist- Chuck Caplinger, Twentynine Palms, CA …One of my favorite places discovered along America’s back roads… Standing at the crossroads about 20 miles east of Route 99 on CA Hwy. 65, lies the City of Exeter, CA nestled amid orange groves and tucked deep…
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ROUTE BLUE story touched by Vimy Ridge Lumby Legion Remembering this important anniversary.. VIMY RIDGE…silence in the pause of respect…….A huge part of community mural work is the research that goes into each mural, but also the honour of being asked to create the work. One of the experiences that touched me so deep was…
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The winds of change. A poem left pinned to the scaffolding one day in 2001. Found in the bottom of a box of archival mural pics April 1, 2017 And did you really know, and were you ever really sure, when your life really changes. Bringing those winds of change! We really go back, round…