Garrison Creek park is a small strip of green between the railway tracks an alley of garages. Many of the garage doors were painted last weekend with murals all on the theme of butterflies. There are about 30 paintings and they are the work of a number of different street artists. The project was curated by Nick Sweetman and it is part of the David Suzuki Foundation’s Butterflyway project; StreetARToronto was also involved.
If you don’t like pictures of butterfly murals, I suggest that you skip this post because I’m sharing photos of a lot of the garage doors! In no particular order here they are:
Artist: Cruz1
Artist: unknown (by me)
Artist: blackburn
Artist: J. McKie
Artist: C Mazzulla
Artist: wales
Artist: 2US & XYZ (not positive about that)
Artist: XYZ & MAC
Artist: (left) mska, (right) horus, tuffytats
Artist: (left) braes, (right) C. Perez
Artist: @anyamielniczek
Artist: P.S
Artists: unknown (by me)
Artist: NEDO
Artist: @smugugly
Artist: (left) FIP or FYP? , (right) Sweetman
Artist: (left) braes & wales, (right) C. Perez
as I walk Toronto 
I am just drinking it all in… Some terrific butterflies, but was most amused (& surprised) by David Suzuki rendered as a hot-air balloon!
Not the best likeness is it!
What I love is that an entire collection of homes all adopted this theme. The end result is spectacular!
Would you mind if I re-blogged this post?
If you want to re-blog go ahead,… with credit and link please!
I had thought that I took photos of all the garages, then StreetARToronto facebook page had one by spud that I missed! Not sure how I missed it.
Reblogged this on My Life Lived Full and commented:
I don’t often re-blog a post, but I’d like to make an exception with Mary’s post about butterfly doors.
Mary is a Toronto blogger and her view of our city is always a bit different and definitely interesting.
This post about a neighbourhood that recently painted their garage doors with murals of a butterfly theme is clearly one of those posts that’s both different and interesting.
Since today is Thursday Doors, it seemed like a perfect time to profile Mary and her blog. I hope you enjoy.
Lovely photos; and a great idea for cheering up the neighbourhood. 🙂
Gorgeous butterfly doors! Thank you so much for sharing. I would tell you my favorite, but I think I love them all equally. This was a genius project!
Gorgeous collection 🙂
Those are wonderful! One of my fondest memories of our visit to Toronto was the street murals. I wish I could have seen these while we were there.
What a beautiful gallery and amazing artist! Thanks for sharing them.
janet
How delightful. Popped in from Jo’s blog to see your post. A great idea to brighten up the neighbourhood 🙂
Thank you to everyone who left a comment, your interest is much appreciated. The garage doors at Garrison Creek are wonderful, especially when seen as a collection. I was very happy to find them and I’m glad that you enjoyed seeing them too.
Absolutely lovely! Thank you taking these. I know our city has some really neat murals in street art, but these are lovely.
They are great aren’t they? Each on their own is nice but to see them as a collection is even better!
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