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Nov. 08, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Want To Brighten Up Vancouver?

You could apply for a spot in the 2017 Mural Festival. And if the US Election results don’t interest you,…

Nov. 04, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

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Really more of a decoration applied to utility boxes. But I’m glad this has been done; it helps to liven…

Nov. 02, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Public Art

Just off Robson on Bidwell. Created and painted by Bonnie Ackland, 2004. Sponsored by West End Paint and Hardware; paints…

Oct. 28, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Public Art

Walking to get my flu shot the other day, found this lively mural on a schoolyard retaining wall at Lord…

Oct. 24, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

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On Davie Street, in a narrow passage between buildings. …

Oct. 20, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

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The prolific Jerry Whitehead has another mural, this one along the Central Valley Greenway, at McLean and N. Grandview Hwy. …

Sep. 22, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

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Under the Granville Bridge, on the north side. A mural all about watery stuff and Granville Island. In a cute…

Sep. 16, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

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An informal and temporary mural on construction hoarding at the Joyce-Collingwood Skytrain station during expansion. The word “home” pulls this…

Sep. 13, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Public Art, Public Safety

Ocean Cement plant on Granville Island — with murals, including truck. Speaking of cement trucks and cement companies — here’s a great…

Sep. 12, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

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Jerry Whitehead did this small mural in a most unlikely location — the back wall of a parking lot under a…

Sep. 09, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

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This one’s been around forever — located at 7th Avenue and Fir Street, under the Granville Bridge’s pseudo-freeway off-ramp. The…

Sep. 08, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Public Art

Just west of Main St. at 7th Avenue, the andandandcollective painted an energetic group of children in faux colours, some emerging…

Sep. 07, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Images — Public Art

Images galore splashed all around this mural. Skull with cowboy hat. TV-watching banana. Drunk dog. Raining cloud of bubblegum. Spaceship…

Sep. 06, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Public Art

Another afternoon wandering by bike around the Mural Festival’s hot zone (Main and Broadway), another few murals seen for the…

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