Elspeth Bradbury: Wild Life

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Elspeth Bradbury, "Wild Life," 2019

Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 2, 6–8 p.m.

Meet the Artists: Saturday, April 6, 2–3 p.m.

Art Sunday Workshop, an audiovisual presentation with Elspeth Bradbury: Sunday, April 14, 2–4 p.m.

The Ferry Building Gallery is pleased to present Wild Life, a mixed-media exhibition that showcases artwork and original poetry by Elspeth Bradbury.

Elspeth Bradbury was born in Scotland and has lived and worked in West Vancouver for the past 30 years. She has enjoyed painting and drawing for as long as she can recall, but it was only after retiring from architecture that she began to concentrate on this recent series of artwork.

Her passion for the ocean and local West Coast forests inspired Wild Life, a mixed-media series that depicts our local flora and fauna, while incorporating poems in which the animals make their voices and opinions heard. “What is to be done about a world that grows more wondrous and horrifying by the day?” is the underlying question of this series.

In 2008, Bradbury received the Heritage Achievement Award and, in 2012, she and her husband were presented with the Environment Award by the District of West Vancouver. She has served on the District’s Design Panel and Heritage Advisory Committee.

Writing has also been a large part of Bradbury’s life. Her articles on gardens and nature have appeared in many magazines, and her poetry has been published in journals and books. She is a contributor to an outdoor column in The Beacon, a local community publication.

Bradbury has volunteered with the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society for nearly 20 years, removing invasive plants, as well as growing and planting native species. As an enthusiastic gardener, she also volunteered for over a decade with VanDusen Botanical Gardens as a garden guide and master gardener.