Please see below for the various sites around Courtenay that will be part of the festival, and the artists that will be painting each site!
Featured Artist Mural
The location for the featured mural was sponsored by Gladstone and the chosen artist will paint a Gladstone-themed mural to celebrate the first Annual Wall Things Art festival.
Artist info coming soon!
Harmston Mural Walk
For the week of July 5-12, selected artists will be painting spots around the Harmston neighbourhood, which will be viewable on a walking tour! Check out each site below, as well as the artist / artist collective that will be painting it!
Eli and Katrina’s Fence
Artists: Queer for Queer
Queer for Queer is Courtenay’s Queer Artist Collective! We are a large group with diverse artistic practices. We have fibre and ceramic artists, painters, digital, collage, and mix media artists all under one united banner. Queer for Queer centres around the community and fostering a space here in the Comox Valley for LGBTQA2+ art and artists.
Harmston Alley Block (Paint-Over)
Artist:
Heather Wilkinson
Heather Wilkinson, a longtime Comox Valley resident and former school counsellor, began painting at age 64 after being sidelined by arthritis. Inspired by her travels through India, Cambodia, Europe, and the Americas, she started with watercolour portraits of people she met and later expanded into oils, acrylics, and mixed media. Her work now spans flowers, landscapes, animals, and abstracts. She’s studied with artists like Alison Watt and Brian Buckrell, shown her art locally and with the Federation of Canadian Artists, and even helped paint a mural in La Manzanilla, Mexico.
Make it Zone Alley Wall
Artist:
Graye Szilvassy
Graye Szilvassy is a 16 year old artist with experience in painting, illustration and metal sculpture. This festival will be her first time painting a mural and she’s excited to bring her creative vision to a public place.
Janet and Neil’s Fence & Garage Door
Artist:
Nate Schmold
Nate Schmold is a dedicated multi-media artist producing illustration, music, paintings, and even video games. His work rubs lovingly against absurdism and an obsessive desire to express the familiar and often intense states of human emotion and mental health.
Josh and Anna’s Steps (Paint-Over)
Artist info coming soon!
Nadine’s Fence
Artist info coming soon!
Drew & Amanda’s Fence
Artist info coming soon!
Lush Community Garden Mural
Artist: Anna Rambow
Free Walls
The free wall area will be revealed at the wrap up party for Wall Things Art, where artists will be able to contribute to putting art on the walls! After the unveiling, these walls are welcome to be repainted on an on-going basis by any artist wishing to express themselves throughout the year.
As part of the Wall Things Art wrap-up party, this wall will become part of an exciting multi-artist ‘exquisite corpse’ mural.
Shipping Container Behind Gladstone
Tin Structure Behind Gladstone
Small Fence Behind Gladstone
Shipping Containers Behind Gladstone
Fence Behind Gladstone
Free Wall Unveiling
(Paint-Over)