Deb Chaney Selected For 2022-2024 Community Mural Artist Roster

In front of the completed ‘West Coast Abstracts’ public art installation at 108 East 8th St E, North Vancouver, British Columbia. From left to right; Emma Cartwright, Development Manager Adera Developments COO; Rocky Sethi, Adera Developments COO; Deb Chaney, Artist; Mayor Linda Buchanan of North Vancouver; and Lori Phillips, Public Art Commissioner for the City of North Vancouver.

I’d like to thank the City of Richmond Public Art Program for selecting me to be amongst the 2022-2024 Community Mural Roster selected artists.

Congratulations to all the selected Vancouver aritsts. And in particular, I was thrilled to see my friend and fellow artist Fiona Tang on the list! 

Atheana Picha, Anaïs Lera, April de la Noche Milne, Ho Lay Hoon, Benjamin Evely, Carolyn Wong, Ciele Beau

Dawn Lo, Deborah Chaney, Desirée Patterson, Dolores Altin, Erica Phillips, Fiona Dunnett, Fiona Tang , Jean Bradbury, Jeanette Jerville, Jeni Chen, Yiting Hui, Laara Cerman, Laura Kwok, Mark Anderson, Otilia Sabina Spantulescu, Popo and Lola, Rachel Rozanski, Rory Doyle, Karen Yurkovich, Tristesse Seeliger.

The Roster is updated biannually, curated by the City of Richmond, and provides a list of pre-qualified artists to work with community groups, business or property owners, schools, and/or private developers proposing murals on their buildings.

Vancouver is Awesome Online Newspaper Feature

Thank you so much to Elisia Seeber, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter of Vancouver is Awesome for the - can I say? - awesome (!!!) write up about my public art installation! I really appreciate the detail of your article and excellent coverage about this 2,000 hand-painted Portuguese tiles installation entitled ‘West Coast Abstracts’ , created during the pandemic (2019- 2021), and connecting the etherial beauty of Lynn Valley to the Crest Adera residential building of North Vancouver, BC, Canada. Thank you .

My favourite part of this project - in the studio making the artwork that got rendered into 16’ x 10’ tile panels

The installation team - featured here Richard Finch of Richard Finch Tiles who brought his long standing expertise in public art and mosaic tile to our team and for the installation execution.

Myself, Deb Chaney, Bruce Walther, Richard and Ken standing back and looking at their progress on the 3-week installation at East 8th Avenue in North Vancouver, BC.

‘WEST COAST ABSTRACTS’ Viuva Lamego, Ceramics Deb Chaney, Artist These contemporary abstract paintings rendered in hand-painted Portuguese tile, use a play of colour, movement, and texture to capture the ephemeral feeling of a walking through the local rainforest. They serve as a reminder of the power of being in creative process. Connecting with our imagination can be both healing and self-empowering and is available to us all. Commissioned by Crest Adera Projects Ltd. in partnership with the City of North Vancouver Public Art Program, 20212019-2021 More info: https://www.debchaney.com/public-art