At the newly renovated corner of Courcelle and Notre Dame in Ville st Henri, there is a large triangle of grass with a monument and a wall mural. Looking west gives this gloomy view of the Mega Hospital up on Glen Hill. Colours and shapes were embellished to give that sense of a pile of Lego bricks.
Mega Hospital gloom, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, April 2026
Looking east and there are a row of squiggly oaks, they are tall and narrow with 'frizzy' looking branches and a few dry leaves left over from last season. Technically these are called columnar oaks, they are tall and thin like a column. On the right you see the edge of the mural in turquoise, the mural shows an indigenous woman with a sign 'White Supremacy is Killing Me'. Graffiti writers have defaced the lower part of the mural.
Squiggly oaks horizontal, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, April 2026
Here is the same view on the vertical, I tried overlapping the trees on the graffiti and things got a little too busy. I did the horizontal one next, omitting the graffiti and emphasizing the trees more.
Squiggly oaks vertical, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, April 2026
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