Local Burnaby photographer, Barbara-Lynn Pollard, will participate in the sixth annual Vancouver Outsider Arts festival from Oct. 14 to Oct. 16.
For Burnaby photographer Barbara-Lynn Pollard, picking up a camera offered a way to refocus her life, giving her a means to get through her panic attack episodes.
Growing up in an artistic family, she said that she had always been able to appreciate and recognize art. She gets particular joy, she said, in witnessing art that vibrantly fills spaces that would otherwise be blank concrete walls. She loves to capture these fleeting artworks before they are removed or covered over because “the graffiti is something that gets destroyed or covered over or removed quite quickly in the city.
“I would look for things that were more interesting to me, like writings on a wall or a drawing on a wall or something that caught my eye like a colour," she said. "Or old, like old barns, old farm equipment, things that have a history. But for her, it’s a form of creative expression. “It often speaks to a point with pending on what the art is,” she said. “It is someone's creativity. And it's also reflects someone's life and someone's pain, depending on what they put on the wall. So it's sort of someone's personal journey. Some people do art for healing, some people do art to express themselves —and it's all about perspective.
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