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Every Painting Has a Story Series

The unique stories behind my paintings

Every Painting Has a Story: March 2021 – “Memories of Kamloops”

Last month, I wrote about our family’s trip to Kamloops in 2020. This month’s painting is from the same trip. It is an 8″x8″ acrylic painting on a canvas that my kids had previously played around on and that I repurposed. I had brought a pad of canvas paper with me (which I used to create my Kamloops Sky Trio) …

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Every Painting Has a Story: February 2021 – “Settling into the Quiet”

Here we are in the second month of 2021! The painting for this month is titled, “Settling into the Quiet” and is a smaller piece at 5″x7″, painted with acrylics on watercolour paper. It was a thank you gift for our Airbnb host.

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Every Painting Has a Story: January 2021 – “Wisdom Will Guide Your Path”

Welcome to my new series of blog posts, entitled, “Every Painting Has a Story”! In this series, I intend to share some of the back story behind each month’s painting in my 2021 Art + Scripture Calendar. I hope that through this series of posts, we can journey through the year together.

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Olive Chan Art operates on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem),  sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), and Coast Salish Peoples. I thank these First Peoples who continue to live on these lands and care for them and whose relationship to these lands existed long before the founding of Canada or British Columbia.

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