This low detail mural has the three subjects of Strathma's logo; Sherwood Park (and Strathcona County), the Aspen Parklands, and the Beaver Hills Biosphere. The Strathcona County Museum and Archives wanted these local subjects, urban and natural, to vibrantly jump out with colour.

The Strathcona County Museum and Archives commissioned this colourful wall Mural for the exterior of their building facing Wye Road in Sherwood Park, Alberta. The mural welcomes visitors inside to experience the natural history and human history shown in the mural.

An Elk Island bison or buffalo grazing in a field is painted with expressive brush strokes in this mural about Strathcona County, Alberta. There are around 400 plains bison and 300 wood bison protected in Elk Island, Canada's only fenced national park.

The iconic Canadian beaver had to be painted into this Alberta mural depicting the Beaver Hills Biosphere. One of the few mammals capable of changing a habitat, beavers are a keystone species that turns a forest into a variety of habitats.

As a mural artist I look for iconic buildings and places when painting the spirit or character of a town to bring a sense of local neighbourhood pride and add placemaking by giving art about a place to that place. For this mural about Sherwood Park in Strathcona County I created a building portrait of Festival Place, a centre for the arts.

A close up perspective photo of the Sherwood Park mural shows receding buildings and horizons. First show is the Ardrossan grain elevator, built in 1923. The rural Alberta hamlet, Ardrossan, with feed mill and original store was established in 1908. Behind it are the Bremner Heritage House and Strathcona County Fire Hall with the Heartland Hall.

Looking closer at this Alberta mural we see the Strathcona County Fire Hall with a fire truck parked out front. This mural had the budget for a medium level of detail and it was a challenge for me to paint vehicles and buildings simply without detail, but still based on readable two point perspective on a curved horizon.

Looking closer at the picnic grounds outside Sherwood Park’s Festival Place, we see that Conan the Barbarian is painted into this Strathcona County mural. The barbarian is well behaved on his lunch break, enjoying a horn of ale and a book with his longsword leaning against his picnic table. What do you think he’s reading?