Recently, there was an announcement that Lowney would stop making the cherry blossom candy, the one with the chocolate-covered maraschino cherry and red syrup. Go stock up! As part of the story, they mentioned that originally, Lowney, a British company had a factory in Montreal in the Griffintown area. Today I managed to ride my bike out there and realized that I have painted this scene before from the
other angle. The scene is looking West on William street.
Lowney Condos Winter Sun, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2025
From the sidewalk, looking through a tall wire fence I got a good view of this empty parking lot covered in snow. The buildings in the background are some type of city housing, at least, they are protecting it from being leveled and turned into condos. Just in case I did this painting for posterity. The green borders are in case I post it on Instagram, it makes the aspect ratio correct. Usually I use cream-coloured borders but in this case I wanted to sort of frame the snowy space at the bottom of the composition.
Empty Lot Griffintown, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2025
On the left is the elevated train, you can see the detailed masonry that was applied to the supporting structure. In fact, the whole underside of the elevated train is a personal storage warehouse for people to put stuff when they are moving or for long term storage. The A frame structure on the right is a very old warehouse, likely 19
th century, it faces the Peel basin. Its another structure that is very likely heritage and thus protected from development. In the foreground is a long and narrow park called Mary-Griffin Park, it used to be filled with construction materials, but when I visited today it looked almost totally clear. One hopes they can turn this into a nice park, there are already a few trees there.
Mary-Griffin, Park, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, January 2025
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