behind the story
Inspired by the rich hues of the city, the Boulevard fashion team enjoyed seeking out colourful backdrops, like this mural by multidisciplinary artist Shawn Shepherd. This mural is part of Shepherd’s garden series, which references the Night Garden Transformation series by BC painter Jack Shadbolt. Shepherd began painting small format garden imagery in 2004; this series blossomed into an 8-by-40-foot drawing exhibited at the Comox Valley Art Gallery, and eventually a 24-foot-high, 235-foot-long mural on Mason Street in Victoria. The graphic mural seen in this issue was a private commission for the interior of a Victoria residence. Shepherd has stated, “The history of painting is filled with valuable garden imagery and artists have often found subject matter in their gardens. I’ve approached the garden with a focus on the abstract nature of foliage forms, both the sensuous and the angular lines, and how light plays upon them. Light is colour and as an artist I apply colour to reflect light, to touch the nervous system.”
PHOTO BY LIA CROWE
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