Artist hopes mural will create a bit of peace for Our Place clients

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Our Place’s walls just got a new mural.

Bob Sellmer uses careful brush strokes to paint the outline for an expansive mural, an image of a serene rainforest, a tangle of moss-covered tree branches flanking a gentle stream. Sellmer has been working on the three-metre-by-10-metre mural on a curved wall in the basement of Our Place for five hours every morning, before he starts his dishwashing shift at the drop-in shelter.

Read the article: Artist hopes mural will create a bit of peace for Our Place clients

Source: Times Colonist

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