Downtown Granville Street

Downtown Granville - November, 2008
Acrylic on canvas, 40" x 30"


I originally conceived this one to be part of a show on Vancouver Neighborhoods. This is looking north down Granville Street at Nelson.

One of my studio mates observed, as I was painting it, that the Scotia tower building on the right looked a little like a female dress form. It does. And the TD tower on the left looks a little like a male in a suit and tie. That was unconscious personification.

But think of high school dances: you know how girls always gather on one side, and boys on the other? It always felt like there was an uncrossable gulf between the two.

So when one considers this in the context of neighborhoods... well, this part of Vancouver has the highest density of bars and pubs and meeting places in the city.