Birds are a common subject for Adrienne Peacock.
The artist can walk around Belcarra to capture a variety of birds with her camera or simply watch them from her home balcony in the village.
Now, her acrylic painting of a Downy woodpecker is featured on the marketing materials for the 55th annual exhibition of the Port Moody Art Association, a group she’s been with for the past 15 years.
On Nov. 2 and 3, about half of its 80 members will be at the Port Moody Recreation Complex (300 Ioco Rd.) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day to show and sell their original artwork.
For Peacock, she’ll have about a dozen pieces as part of the Art to Go program — all of them celebrating the flora and fauna around her.
The show “is a good opportunity for visitors to meet the artists and hear about their techniques and creative processes,” Peacock told the Tri-City News on Monday, Oct. 21.
Originally from southern Ontario, Peacock and her husband made their home in Belcarra about 25 years ago.
The West Coast semi-rural environment appealed to Peacock, who has a PhD in zoology from UBC and instructed biology, ecology and environmental science at Douglas College.
For the most part, she is a self-taught artist, primarily creating landscape images in acrylics and watercolours; however, she has taken professional development courses in the past at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Langara College, the Dene Croft Studio and the Vancouver Academy of Art, as well as studied privately with Canadian masters Robert Bateman and David McEwen, who are also members of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
Today, Peacock’s representative works are in private collections from California to Ireland.
Still, right now, she’s most pleased about the latest Port Moody Art Association project: a kids' colouring book of area animals and plants, which was published for the Mossom Creek hatchery in Port Moody.
Organized with fellow members Christine Yurchuk and Carla Vermaat, the colouring books will be for sale at the Art to Go show and sale in November.
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