Alberta Aurora is Installed

I received word and this photo of the commissioned painting, Alberta Aurora, that it now hangs in its location at Livingston Place in Calgary. More photos to come.

Unfolding painting in Calgary

Leaving Vancouver, December 11 at 7 am and arriving in Calgary at 9:15, I was prepared to see the folded canvas for the first time since it left my studio in September. Here is Calgary as seen from my Westjet arrival.



Arriving at Livingston Place Tower II, the folded painting was brought to me in the main lobby for opening out



By 3:30 pm I had successfully opened the painting, re-framed it and re-wrapped it. It will be hung in the main foyer in March.

Livingston Place Towers: Model and Actual

Model of the two Livingston Place Towers.



View from the street of the main foyer entrance to Tower II.



The actual Tower II: Livingston Place.





View from the street of the actual main foyer entrance to Tower II.



Livingston Place Tower II.

Packed Painting for Travel

To ship and move the painting through doorways and into trucks for shipping, the canvas needed to be able to collapse. This required three folds with the environment kept above freezing. The acrylic polymer is very flexible when kept warm but if frozen can easily crack. I decided to send the painting up to Calgary in early September and placed in a warm storage room at the Livingston Place complex until I unfolded it in December. Here is painting is in my Vancouver studio ready to be wrapped in polyethylene.



The painting is now wrapped and strapped and ready to be shipped to Calgary.