Trompe L’oeil (French for ‘deceive the eye’) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.
Artist: Sarah Collard
250 Portage Ave Winnipeg MB R3C 0B1Located in front of the 250 Portage building in Downtown, this is one of the many transit boxes that Sarah Collard has painted in Winnipeg. It depicts musicians of various cultures playing various instruments. The building in the background of the painting is quite similar to its surrounding buildings in the downtown area.
Artist: Belle-Fosh Signs
245 Notre Dame Ave Winnipeg MB R3B 1N8Painted on the side of African Food General, this mural creates the illusion of a detailed building on a simple stone wall. To the left of these buildings is a sign which contains a list of the businesses which once resided in this building strip.
Artist: Tim Nijenhuis - Ninehouse Productions
360A Queenston Rd, Hamilton, ON L8K 1H9Three dimensional illusion of a hand holding a silver rod of Asclepius, symbol of medical science, on the side of a medical building.
Artist: Tim Nijenhuis - Ninehouse Productions
535 King St E, Hamilton, ON L8N 1E3Irish street scene on exterior wall adjacent to the former Irish Pub, Rebel Rock
Artist: Tim Nijenhuis - Ninehouse Productions
33 King St W, Dundas, ON L9H 1T5Chronological history of the Collins Brewhouse – transitioning from left to right from the late 1800s, 1900s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, today featuring street scene with stores, automobiles and people.
Artist: Tim Nijenhuis - Ninehouse Productions
342 Barton St E, Hamilton, ON L8L 2X7Young boy in front of store front from 1940’s with steel fabrication in the background, a Studebaker, and scenes from Hamilton in the background including the Lancaster airplane in the sky.
