Market Lane Murals

About The Artists

Meaghan Claire Kehoe

Meaghan Claire Kehoe is a full-time emerging artist with four years of experience in public art. She has painted large-scale pieces in Toronto, Kitchener, Waterloo, Oshawa, St. Thomas and London (at RBC Place London). Meaghan focuses her work on human strength, inclusivity and our connection with nature and each other. Her style uses vibrant palettes to marry realism with expressionism and geometric shapes and patterns.

Tell Us About Your Market Lane Piece
My piece for Market Lane focuses on the reconnection with nature that many of us have discovered in these weird and uncertain times of 2020. The Barn Swallow, Eastern Screech Owl and Monarch Butterfly are native to Ontario's Carolinian Forest and the young woman featured is our foster-kid whose resilience inspires me. This strength of character is symbolized by the flight of the birds and butterfly.

Your Must Visit London Destination?
My favourite spots in London are La Noisette for its fresh pastries and coffee (try their custard filled doughnuts) and London's Harris Park for a breath of fresh air right in the city.

Stephanie Boutari

Stephanie Boutari is a Canadian/Egyptian multidisciplinary artist based in Kitchener-Waterloo. Her practice currently focuses on the creation of murals for public and commercial spaces. Stephanie’s approach to art is heavily influenced by her background in architectural design. Inspired by themes of illusory depth and the spatial effects of colour, her work often uses geometric shapes, bold colours and gradients to engage the viewer through a play on perception.

Tell Us About Your Market Lane Piece
I was inspired by the idea of creating a kind of ‘augmented’ forest that is a visual hybrid between digital and representational art. One of my goals is for it to help foster a connection to London’s Carolinian forest origins within the context of downtown - to encourage curiosity and appreciation of native species with a playful, urban and contemporary feel. My piece focuses on three Carolinian Ontario trees: the flowering dogwood, tulip tree, and eastern redbud; placing them in the foreground of an abstract geometric forest. It combines figurative painting with digital-like geometric shapes and vivid colours to evoke the sense of an imaginary, virtual forest whilst also illustrating identifiable plants.

Your Must Visit London Destination?
Reset Social Cafe :) not just to visit my artwork but also because I love their coffee and their food… and the owner and staff are always so nice.

Hawlii Pichette

Hawlii Pichette or Urban Iskwew is a London-based visual artist whose practice includes painting, contemporary and traditional forms of beadwork and more recently large-scale, mixed media sculptures. She is of both Swampy Cree and French-Canadian ancestry. Her work is deeply influenced by her culture and reflects her experiences and perspective as a First Nations person and is identified as having a woodland style.

Tell Us About Your Market Lane Piece:
My mural is a contemporary and somewhat futuristic floral design. As an Indigenous artist and beadworker, I'm inspired by traditional Indigenous artforms and patterns. I wanted to create something that played off of the symmetry of the brick and architecture of the area. The theme for the Market Lane project was Forest City Playground so I strived to create a design that was fun, bright and playful. I wanted to create a backdrop for people to engage with the art through selfies and just capture their imaginations. The birds in my piece are commonly found in the backyards of London residents.

Your Must Visit London Destination?
I've lived in downtown London for the last three years and my favorite place that I go frequently is the Covent Garden Market… and nothing beats strolling through Wortley Village.