At the beginning of the year I discovered an
old strip mall on Côte st-Luc that was slated for demolition and made a painting of the shop on the end, a closed hairdresser shop. In this painting, you can see that the mall has finally been demolished, perhaps late last week. As the sun was going down, one pile of rubble was illuminated by the setting sun, that is approximately where the hairdresser's was located. I recognized some of the teal-coloured bricks from
the dépanneur, and from the
pink store that was a nail and beauty salon. There was also a
laundry mat that only just closed about a month ago, the last store to remain open. I painted quite
a few scenes here, the last one
on a stormy day just a few days before it was demolished. As the busses and cars drive on by, I wonder what they thought of the rubble, or of the guy standing next to his bike painting a picture of it? It was worth the effort, doing paintings on this location, and some of my favorite paintings of the year were done of the
demo-mall in winter. Like I often tell myself, the time to paint something is when you see it.
Demoed, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, September 2025
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