Tag Archives: Granville Island

Leanne Christie painting of the false creek ferries and the Burrard Bridge

A Gathering of Granville

A beautiful triptych of personal Granville Island scenes; now a part of the “Swift Collection” Each painting in this grouping is strong enough to stand as an independent work and each demands something to be written about it.  Granville Island is not often a choice of subject for my paintings as it can be a [...]

Leanne Christie Vancouver painter from under the Granville Street Bridge

Walking to the market, Sunday morning. Oil on canvas. 48″ x 24″

Walking to the market, Sunday morning I find it curious that inspiration and images can take hold at the simplest of times.  There are the foraging days when I am actively searching for my muse and hunting down my subjects.  I am always rewarded but true inspiration is often illusive.  Then there are the days [...]

Leanne Christie, local Vancouver artist painting of the interior of the Granville Island Public Market

Bounty on the Corner. Oil on canvas. 10″ x 10″ SOLD Cave Collection

The Granville Island Public Market on a cool summer’s morning before the rush arrives.   The corner in question is one which I admire often, the Granville Island Produce store where the staff spend hours sorting each berry as they build their towers of fruit.  I love the cool of the atmosphere and the reflections [...]

leanne christie. be a collector

Did you get your Christmas card?

  Happy Holidays and may 2012 see you sprinting! Is this email not displaying correctly? .         In an ball in the bin sits 5 pages of crumpled research containing trivia about Christmas in Lesotho.  I know .. I chose this as it was the nearest country to the area in South [...]

West along the wall. Oil on canvas. 10″ x 10″. SOLD

Vancouver painting of the Granville Bridge from the north side of the seawall along False Creek. What a struggle! 5 days of rain just completed but the weather report promised 5 more. 1 glorious day to eat as much as possible and what a bountiful feast. Between the first dusting of snow on the mountains, [...]

Moored. Oil on canvas. 10″ x 10″.SOLD

So much happens within the frame of this painting.  I love the location (by the entrance to Granville Island) and I love the subject but to capture the scene is intense.  There are thousands of little elements: the ropes, the masts, the sails, the layers upon layers of boats, the water, the city, the bridge. [...]