A B.C. artist known for his detailed murals has returned to Boundary Country and is ready to add more beauty to the region.
Archer is back in the Boundary after a stint on Vancouver Island, the artist announced this week.
“I’m officially back from working on the coast,” Archer wrote in a post published on the “Ask Away! Grand Forks” Facebook page, “and happy to be back!”
The muralist intends to complete multiple projects in the area this year.
“I am scheduling early this year,” he said. “If you have a mural in mind please send me your contact information and ideas.”
Archer plans to work on art projects downtown first, then elsewhere.
“I usually focus on the downtown core to start with, then later I’ll get to the outskirts,” he says, calling the Grand Forks community his “family.”
Thanks to Archer, Grand Forks was the first city in the world to have an officially commissioned mural honouring the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
Commemorating the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II, “renowned mural artist Archer worked through the night to produce a larger-than-life rendition of the queen,” reported the City in 2022.
Archer is a nomadic airbrush extraordinaire. He is known for painting at any scale, “from tiny murals on gas tanks to 12-storey buildings,” according to an online biography of the artist, who “prides himself with his portraits of people and wildlife.”
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