Sara Fernandez Studio

Inspired by Haida longhouses and designed by Unison Architecture, the new Skidegate Health and Wellness Centre will feature ocean-facing windows and an open, welcoming interior. The 9,400-square-foot centre will face the ocean in the tradition of a Skidegate longhouse, but its windows will look out from a tsunami-safe spot high above the current Skidegate Health Centre.

This painting shows a view of West Hastings Street in Vancouver with the iconic Marine Building as its focal point. The beautifully proportioned Marine Building with its art deco details is also renowned for at one time being the tallest building in the British Empire. This view of the Marine Building is today enhanced, contrasted, and framed by the elegant MNP Tower behind it. This Vancouver view represents two periods of some of the city’s finest architecture. Every time I have seen it, I have felt inspired to paint it, which I have done here in watercolour.

Designed by NSDA Architects of Vancouver, BC, The Village at Anderson Creek is a 75-unit Alzheimer and Dementia Care Facility, located near historic Fort Langley (the birthplace of British Columbia), amidst farmland, forest and a suburban neighbourhood.  Respecting the character and scale of the nearby neighbourhood, the Village buildings are 1.5 stories tall, arranged like a cluster of cottages, and enclosed in a park-like setting with a variety of paths, gardens and outdoor spaces.  A community building houses shops, workshop areas for art and woodworking, a barbershop and spa, all of which is open to the pubic to create continuity with the surrounding neighbourhood.

San Francisco is of course famous for its hilly cityscapes of pastel-coloured houses and tree-lined streets, such as the one I painted here in watercolour. I am always captivated by these San Francisco views and couldn’t resist painting this one in the medium I find most ideal for capturing depth and light.

This conceptual watercolour was developed to tell the storey of an active atrium gathering space for a university.

I was walking in The Rocks (Australia’s oldest English settlement) in Sydney, when the site of this building caught my eye. I loved the contrast of dark shadows and the sculptural tree against the building bathed in bright sunlight. The power of this watercolour lies in the simplicity of the composition and execution.

This loose, conceptual watercolour provides a character sketch of a mixed-use development in Colwood, BC

Designed by NSDA Architects of Vancouver, BC, The Village at Anderson Creek is a 75-unit Alzheimer and Dementia Care Facility, located near historic Fort Langley (the birthplace of British Columbia), amidst farmland, forest and a suburban neighbourhood.  Respecting the character and scale of the nearby neighbourhood, the Village buildings are 1.5 stories tall, arranged like a cluster of cottages, and enclosed in a park-like setting with a variety of paths, gardens and outdoor spaces.  A community building houses shops, workshop areas for art and woodworking, a barbershop and spa, all of which is open to the pubic to create continuity with the surrounding neighbourhood.