Art around Enderby

Welcome to Enderby, with the famous Cliffs painted on the sign.

Art seams to be all around as you walk down the side walks of Enderby. Each time I take a walk, a drive, a bike ride, I see something new.

The library has a sign with books on one side and on the other is a girl reading. As you look through the photo's you can guess what the business is by the picture on the paintings.

The owner of the pet shop sometimes has her art hanging on the walls.

I should walk by here more often you can smell the flowers from across the street.

Seniors have many modes of transportation

The Cornerstone Garden Enderby In Bloom 2005. A beautiful little garden off of George St.

This Mural is on City Hall and it has to do with Enderby & District Community Play 1999.."Not The Way I Heard It" Until I got closer to the Mural I thought it must have been something to do with the Alien invasion of 1818. Just joking, that's one way to start a rumor. The Artist and designer is Frances Hatfield.

This is painted on the dollar store window but is beginning to fade.

Crystal Gardens
Must check this out.















Love the chop sticks

Museum

The Eagle and Salmon sculpture in front of City Hall is amazing.

We were sorry to see LULU'S for sale and closed













The building this sign is on has had a frenzy of work being done to it.

Enderby Skate board park a plethora of impromptu art

Fish Lovers seam to like the cutzie fish.

What a surprise to find this fasinating "Quilakwa Art Gallery" at the Super Save Gas. You can stop off for fuel, check out the art and then go to the Flea Market

Don't overlook the slick Eagle on the porch.

What did I miss? The painted fire hydrents, and tomorrow when I go out I'm sure I will see something new.

Riley Charters

Riley Charters is happy to sit back and let her husband Bill do all the talking. She doesn't feel the need to stand out and be noticed. Her paintings stand out for her.
Oils, some acrylics, pastels, found objects, gold leaf, coffee grounds and white glue for textures are just some of the mediums that She uses for her paintings. She finds inspiration from family stories, stories her father wrote down, and observations of her family. The culture of her Salish history, her Mom from the Thompson, Coldwater Band and her Father from the Shuswap Barrier are rich with inspiration for her visual art. Riley also enjoys researching First Nations in BC and putting her research on canvas. If she isn't painting she's beading and making jewelry.
Abbotsford and Mission areas have been her home for a long time. For three years in the mid seventy's she went to art school in Nelson. She has continued to take art classes through the years and doesn't intend to stop learning new techniques or new way to fashion her art.
Riley took some courses in Facilitation and then went on to facilitate a class in printmaking at Abbotsford's John MacLure elementary school. She would also like to enrich her life with travel and experience other cultures along with more teaching to enrich young lives through art.
A couple of years ago Bill drove for miles ( we are in Canada eh) kilometers around BC and Alberta looking for Galleries that would display Riley's work. She has her work in Banff at the About Canada Gallery, The Path Gallery in Whistler and Eagle Feather in Victoria. Her next show in Abbotsford will be with the Graphic Guild starting October.
19th at Kariton Gallery.
Visit Riley's web page Riley Charters