PJ Gilhuly created "Raven Haven" for the 2021 Nelson International Mural Festival in the first-floor stairwell of the parkade.
Producer: Nelson International Mural Festival
Nelson Spotlight
Toner created "Nelson Spotlight" for the 2021 Nelson International Mural Festival. The piece features Streetcar #23, the Hume Hotel (before it's renovation), the Courthouse, and Touchstones Museum.
Graffiti by Bacon
Located in the parking lot facing side of Dr. Kelly Davidoff Family Dentistry, Bacon used his spare paint from "Harmony" to create this quick piece.
"Canadian painter and internationally acclaimed graffiti artist, Alexander Bacon, was born and raised in Toronto and has become a renowned mural artist with over 20 years of experience. Using spray paint as the main medium, Bacon’s work has evolved towards deconstructing traditional spray graffiti techniques to create an abstract style while preserving letters’ shapes. The technique behind his work presents a unique painting style where he produces soft color transitions, blending abstract forms with realism and expressionism."
Harmony
Harmony is located on the Highway-facing side of Dr. Kelly Davidoff Family Dentistry, painted by Bacon for the 2021 Nelson International Mural Festival.
"Canadian painter and internationally acclaimed graffiti artist, Alexander Bacon, was born and raised in Toronto and has become a renowned mural artist with over 20 years of experience. Using spray paint as the main medium, Bacon’s work has evolved towards deconstructing traditional spray graffiti techniques to create an abstract style while preserving letters’ shapes. The technique behind his work presents a unique painting style where he produces soft color transitions, blending abstract forms with realism and expressionism."
Metamorphosis
"At the beginning of the ’90s, Ankh started doing graffiti on the walls of his beautiful native city of Grenoble, nestled at the foot of the Alps.
It is this mode of expression that led him to the benches of a graphic school.
Mastering these newfound institutional techniques, he gradually transposed his pictorial and graphic work to painting, without ever breaking the link to the graffiti culture that motivated this progression."
By Ric Gendron
This mural was created by Ric Gendron and assistants in 2022 on the side of Pharmasave Nelson.
"Ric Gendron is a “paint slinger” who creates expressive artworks that blend traditional Indigenous imagery with bold colors fields. As a member of the Arrow Lakes Band (Sinixt), he creates expressionist, strikingly colorful images that chronicle his experience, memory, history, journeys and identity. Gendron studied art at Cornish College of the Arts, the Eastern Washington University and in 1983 received his art degree from Spokane Falls Community College."