Jananas

Before we left for Asia we hit up art in the park at Trinity Bellwoods. We saw some art that we quite liked, including Jamie MacLean‘s painting entitled Hidden Barn. My parents have a tradition of giving us artwork so I sent my dad a message letting him know how much I liked this particular painting. On Christmas morning one of the last presents I opened was an envelope that contained a note card that simply read ‘go check your mom’s closet’. Needless to say, it was Jamie’s painting and it looked just as amazing and awe inspiring as I remembered.

Its large at 36″h X 48″w, but thankfully I have lots of wall space so hanging it is no problem. I am going to move some other pieces around, but I know where I want to hang it. Its still at my parents as we didn’t have enough room to fit it into the car last night because of the dog.

I’m stoked! And Jamie’s story is pretty neat too and seems awfully fitting with much of what I’ve written about in the last few weeks. Here’s an excerpt from his cv on the Canadian Artist’s website linked above.

“While I have painted intermittently since adolescence, only since late 2003 have I become passionate about my art. Surprisingly, this zeal was kick-started during a seminar on how to operate a consulting business. During the self evaluation sessions, the course leader often asked when we were going to embrace the challenge of our individual dreams – If not now, when?”

So when are you going to start living your dream?