todd towers

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Its a toss-up between the 15 collected works of Mark Rothko, in the “Rothko room” in the Tate Modern, and the northern lights “environmental art” I have seen on my ranch.

VIRTUES:
Creativity and resilience (OK, stubbornness)

VICE:
Vice? the recipe is this: 2 parts coffee,  1 part bad action movies, 2 parts sugar sweet additives. Self-improvement? Time. My father tells me I will be late for my own funeral.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Photographic memory.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Since 2000, Farmboy has been my favourite project...seriously, this is an amazing company with fantastic people, projects and clients that have enriched my life and continue to do so. I am very thankful.

tim gudewill

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Dale Chihuly Glass Installation

VIRTUES:
Organized, considerate, genuine, caring and intuitive

VICE:
Impatient

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Super Healing Powers

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Helping build Farmboy Fine Arts

stephanie Mullaney

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Beethoven Frieze: Die Sehnsucht nach dem Glück (The Yearning for Happiness) by Gustav Klimt at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna.

VIRTUES:
Follow through, carrying projects/tasks until they are fully completed.

VICE:
Cafe Santo Domingo!

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Break dancing, ‘cause I’ve got the shoes!

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Organizing the 2002 Ibero American Summit of Heads of State and Government in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic was fantastic!

evelyn sum

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
One that comes to mind immediately is Dali's anamorphic skull painting. While waiting for the doors to Guernica to open, I walked into this tiny gallery across from Reina Sofia. The gallery had a random collection of Dali’s sketches and small paintings and in the corner was the mirrored cylinder sitting over top a watercolour ink blot painting. Dali created the image by looking into the cylinder while painting on the surface beneath, which technically still amazes me. When I actually saw the skull on the cylinder my heart jumped. I guess the element of surprise made an impression on me.

VIRTUES:
Curiosity. I ask lots of questions.

VICE:
I question everything.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Write music. When I was thirteen I had a song in my head and with no technical training except a brief violin stint when I was eight I decided to make up my own notes. I had three pages of archaic symbols but when I looked back at it the next day I couldn't hum the tune - so I danced instead.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
A charcoal portrait of a baby I did for a children's hospital a million years ago. Went back for a visit and noticed a candied lip stain on the glass above where the baby portrait's lips were. Someone liked it enough to kiss it. Art affects people.

Meghan o'connell

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. I learned about it in grade two and thought it was such a neat way to paint, and then when my parents took me to see it at the Art Institute of Chicago I was blown away the size of it. Of course I was pretty small.

VIRTUES:
I will make you laugh. Then I’ll organize your closet by colour.

VICE:
I like things to be the way I like them. I could go easy on that.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Choreographer for theatre and music videos. Dancing. Singing. Clothing design. Electrician. Carpenter. French cooking. Cat burgler.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Recently I just worked on a piece for one of the Kimpton Hotels (some of my fave!) for Palomar in Chicago. The concept was so fun to work with and allowed me to pull from lots of my interests—photography, typography...and cocktails!

ariel grue lee

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Too hard to pick just one. Top 3 are:
1. Kirchner's "Artillerymen", 1915 at the Guggenheim , NYC.
2. The Unicorn Tapestries in the Cloisters, NYC.
3. Antony Gormley's "Blind Light' installation at the Hayword Gallery, London 2007

VIRTUES:
Optimistic, generous, diplomatic and I can convince most people of most things most of the time, but only try to use this power for good…most of the time…

VICE:
Talking too much, being bossy, extravagance, control-freakish behaviour at times, embarrassing addiction to US Weekly without subscription.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Mad accounting skillzzz

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Taking an industrial design course one summer, learning my way around an exacto knife, building a rad cardboard chair, having it be one of my more permanent items of furniture...until it got recycled.

Jordan Hilliard

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Seeing the statue of David in person in Florence, Italy.

VIRTUES:
My imagination.

VICE:
I need to work on my mental telepathy.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Telekinesis would be a great gift to have.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Growing my beard for the purpose of a student film.

fatima travassos

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
The ceiling of Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia - particularly the hyperboloid interior structures.

VIRTUES:
Ability to continually surprise the people that think they know me the best.

VICE:
I keep having these vivid dreams where I am attempting to fly and skate simultaneously. I want to master this seamlessly in that dream.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
I'd love to be a white hat hacker.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
A public art collaboration for the City of North Vancouver whereby I donated my artist fee to Leukemia research.

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vaughn balberan

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:

Tournesols (Sunflowers) by Vincent van Gogh. When I was standing a few of feet away from the painting, it suddenly hit me that I was looking at an original piece created by one of the world's greatest artists in history. It’s a very different experience being able to see the various textures of the original painting rather than a print copy or computer image. I then stood there for several more minutes trying to figure out why someone would pay $40 million dollars for a similar sunflower piece by VvG back in 1987. It’s an impressive piece of art, but c’mon $40 million! I was amazed for many reasons. By the way, $40M would be equivalent to roughly $75M in today’s dollars. Yes, I’m a finance guy.

VIRTUES:
I’m incredible at solving problems. Well… at least at the office for finance and business related items. Give me a problem and I’ll figure out options, and eventually a solution. If I can’t figure it out, I’ll give you a full refund (with receipt only within 30 days of purchase).

VICE:
My biggest vice is having an addictive personality. I’m easily hooked when I truly enjoy something and I usually take it a bit too far. A few examples are 1) Working – I love what I do and end up spending far too much time working 2) Money – I had three paper routes (200+ houses) when I was 12 years old, so that I could earn more 3) Beer – I won’t go into any details with this one. I really need to improve on achieving more balance with my addictions.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
I wish I was gifted with ambidexterity. It would be awesome to be equally adept with both hands/arms for many reasons, but mainly because I would be deadly at dodgeball!

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
My all time favourite project was working with my wife to plan our wedding. It turned out to be the best day of my life (tied with the days our kids were born).

chris read

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
It’s a tie between Peter Eisenman & Buro Happold’s Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and Brian Jungen’s Cetology, a 40 foot whale skeleton made with white plastic lawn chairs.

VIRTUES:
Empathy, sense of humour and my ability to stay positive. Do to others what you would have them do to you.

VICE:
The need to have music playing all the time, wish I could stop putting unrealistic amounts of stuff on my to do list. Saying no.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
The ability to play an instrument, any instrument.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Creating a comic strip in French to propose to my wife. That and planning a 7 month trip to follow the sun, surf, wine harvests and music festivals around the world.

zoe mackoff

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
La Danse (Second Version) by Matisse at the Hermitage.

VIRTUES:
Intuition.

VICE:
Guinness

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Hockey skills! I wanna skate like Bobby Orr and shoot like Gretzky.

FAVORITE PROJECT:
Project Runway

saskia guaman

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, great display of architecture, design and hard work preserved in one place; you will be transported in time as you walk in.

VIRTUES:
Resourceful, practical, organized, open to anything and open to changes.

VICE:
Impatient and sometimes pushy, don’t mind me; you don’t have to do what I am pushing you to do!

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
A pair of nice wings to fly anywhere I want.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
I am a big procrastinator, however my latest fave project was making Christmas presents (pillow cases) for my friends. They loved it!

yas yeganegi

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Sangrada Familia in Spain.

VIRTUES:
Eternally optimistic & very patient.

VICE:
Indulging my sweet tooth.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Ability to predict/control the weather!

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Starting a pizza box advertising company when I was 22.

peter kibiuk

WORK OF ART THAT HAS LEFT THE BIGGEST IMPRESSION:
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) by Salvador Dali.

VIRTUES:
Curiosity, diligence, humility.

VICE:
Twitter.

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
Painting like Picasso!

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
Sailing to sunsets in Desolation Sound and the Gulf Islands!

susan hunt

Controller
shunt@farmboyfinearts.com

Most recently, Robert Ballagh's ' Homage to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa'

VIRTUES:
Conscientiousness (and impatience)

VICE:
I like to be in control... of everything! Also, I am currently addicted to perezhilton.com

NATURAL TALENT YOU WISH YOU WERE GIFTED WITH:
The gift of dance.

FAVOURITE PROJECT:
When I was 21, I traveled California living in a renovated Greyhound bus with 12 irish guys. To this day I still don't know how I survived with my dignity intact! Working at the Winter Olympics was also a brilliant, once in a life time experience.