A Fort Langley couple has included a local take on history for a scrim put up while they renovate their home.
Brenda Sleightholme reproduced her painting that is in the Fort Langley National Historic Site reception area.
“We have attached a 30-foot scrim on the front of our house while we renovate,” Paul Sleightholme said.
Their home is a few blocks away from the historic site and Brenda’s painting bridges old and new.
The scene she had put on the scrim (builders’ shadow cloth erected on scaffolding at construction sites) includes historic site volunteers dressed in their period costume, two modern dressed people, some humour in the form of a drone delivering pizza from well-known Fort restaurant Jim’s Pizza, and a York boat, called the Brenda A after longtime community booster Brenda Alberts.
She was going to originally do a Scottish castle or a drawing of the finished home renovation but her husband, Paul, urged her towards a Canada 150 piece.
“The original art work was indeed painted by my wife, Brenda,” Paul explained. “And, no, Jim’s Pizza doesn’t use drones but we own one and she took a little ‘2017’ liberty on available technology by adding it.”