Category Archives: Murals

18 students enrolled in this year’s mural course were busy painting this new mural outside the Landmark District Market throughout July and August. The mural was celebrated on Thursday, August 17, 2023. This is the fourth mural painted by UBCO’s Visual Arts students who collaborated with instructors David and Jorden Doody to paint a colourful, large-scale mural.

The theme for this year’s UBCO Public Art Project draws inspiration from wild horses of the Okanagan. Wild horses have long been a symbol of strength and freedom for many cultures. As our fourth mural in our local flora and fauna series, this mural uses the wide panorama of the architecture to illustrate a fantastical view of our picturesque region.

UBCO’s Department of Creative Studies partnered with Stober Group for the 2023 mural course, helping to secure a highly visible wall in the growing Landmark District.

Support for this project was made possible with the generous donations from Sunbelt Rentals, Stober Group, Dulux Paints, and Fresh West Official.

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Nine students in the visual arts mural painting course began work in early May 2022, unveiling the finished painting on June 23.

This latest mural is located 2820 Pandosy St., and continues the theme of the previous two murals in downtown Kelowna—sensitive habitats and ecosystems of the Okanagan. Each mural depicts local flora and fauna to help bring awareness to some of the sensitive habitats in the local area.

The design features a large western painted turtle, showing it as the sun sets in a very calm surreal setting.

Support for this project was made possible with the generous donations from Sunbelt Rentals, CTQ Consultants Ltd., Opus Framing and Art Supplies and Fresh West Official.

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Ten students worked on this project at 1358 St. Paul St. throughout July and August of 2021, unveiling the finished mural, Golden Hour, on August 19, 2021.

With this mural, the students hope to build a strong connection to the importance and fragility of the region’s local ecosystems. A blue heron is the central character, and course instructor David Doody describes the heron as an ancient and beautiful bird that survives and thrives only when there are healthy fish stocks.

“By including the iconic beauty of our picturesque valley as the mural’s backdrop we hope to remind viewers that we are all living in a natural work of art,” he says. “With this design, we hope to pay homage and respect to the land and those who came before us.”

Support for this project was made possible with the generous donations from Sunbelt Rentals, CTQ Consultants Ltd., Opus Framing and Art Supplies and Fresh West Official.

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The summer of 2020 was the first year that visual arts lecturer David Doody taught a fourth-year painting class, leading the students through the many steps necessary to plan, pitch and deliver a public mural.

Eighteen students worked to create a full-scale permanent public mural in the heart of Kelowna’s Cultural District. Over the course of the five-week class in July and August of 2020, the students met and worked collaboratively to paint a colourful two-storey mural adjacent to the CTQ Consultants building on St. Paul Street.

This mural, entitled Upstream, depicts a larger-than-life multicolored salmon swimming upstream in front of a canary yellow Archimedes screw pump. The composition of this mural was designed by artist and UBCO Lecturer David Doody, to highlight and illustrate CTQ’s Harrison Hot Springs screw-pump project. If you stand back, you can see the Archimedes screw pump (dating back to 250 BC) in the background behind the spectacular salmon. This project depicts an actual project that CTQ completed for the Village of Harrison Hot Springs. The iconic canary yellow screw pump was designed by CTQ to protect the Village from annual flooding. The design of this screw pump was engineered to specifically reduce the salmon mortality rate down to zero and to support this valuable and sensitive fish habitat.

Support for this project was made possible with the generous donations from Sunbelt Rentals, CTQ Consultants Ltd., Opus Framing and Art Supplies and Fresh West Official.

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