Mural Project

The mural has been delivered! Next step: installation!

It’s here! We took delivery of the mural - next step installation! The badminton club members were just as excited to see it as us!

In partnership with the Municipality of Lambton Shores and supported by a generous grant from the Judith and Norman Alix Foundation, we are excited to launch a community art project which will result in the installation of a beautiful mural on the pavilion in our Optimist Community Center grounds!

Based on a concept created by local artist Dawn Greco, the mural will represent our mighty Lake Huron waves, our famous sunsets, our iconic seagull perch at the beach, and our forested dunes. It will be a mosaic made up of almost 800 individual squares, and we need almost 800 community members to step up and paint a square for us!

The squares are not solid colours, they are small works of art created in the correct colours to fit into the design. The squares are painted on 6"x6" mdf tiles, then photographed and digitally inserted into the overall mosaic. The mural will be digitally created by piecing all of the individual squares together, and will be digitally manipulated to produce the final image, then printed by a sign company for the final installation on the pavilion.

Yes!!!! The first phase of our mural project is complete!

Almost 800 tiles painted by OUR COMMUNITY!

Thank you all for bringing your enthusiasm and creativity to this endeavour.
From the tiniest tot to the most venerable elder everybody’s effort is appreciated.
Be sure to watch this space as we go on to the next phase!

Phase Two!

The finished tiles were first organized and then laid out on the floor in preparation for photographing. We did discover a couple of glitches (i.e. a missing tile here and there) and made a few switches to make the design look better. It's already looking spectacular!