This is a neighbourhood with spirit
Garage door now an art canvas for Guelph family
Neighbourhood spending Canada Day painting a copy of piece by famed artist Tom Thomson
https://www.yorkregion.com/community-story/7401870-garage-door-now-an-art-canvas-for-guelph-family/
Mai Miner adds some blue to neighbour Anna Thompson's garage door. Thompson and many of her neighbours on Westhill Road spent part of Canada Day painting a copy of West Wind, a work by famed Canadian artist Tom Thomson, on her garage door. - Graeme McNaughton, Mercury Tribune
A copy of Tom Thomson's West Wind now adorns the Thompson family's garage door. - Graeme McNaughton, Mercury Tribune
The Thompson family will soon be getting a new garage door — but until the new door comes, their older one will showcase a piece of Canadian art history.
“We have a garage door that was busted, so I figured we should do something for the summer,” says Anna Thompson.
That something is a paint-by-numbers version of West Wind, a painting by famed Canadian artist Tom Thomson. The original painting, which depicts a tree amid rocks and water, was Thomson’s final work before his sudden death in 1917.
Thompson says the work of art will stay up until the garage door is replaced.
“Hopefully before Christmas,” Anna says.
