John Hood - Murals

Over the past 20 years, artist John Hood has received commissions to conceive and paint dozens of large-scale interior and exterior murals in communities all over Ontario. The following is merely a selection of the work he has undertaken in that time.

2005: Passing the Torch, Toronto, Ontario. 14' x 8' mural in The Bishop Strachan School, a private girls' school, depicting students from the contemporary graduating class meeting their forebears from a century earlier. Show here: details; the complete image is show above.

The Archangel Raphael The Archangel Uriel The Archangel Gabriel The Archangel Michael

2004: Archangel Panels, Toronto, Ontario. Four 10' x 14' mural panels on plywood depicting archangels for the Mount Pleasant Group's Mausoleum of the Angels in Beechwood Cemetery. Shown here (left to right): Raphael, Uriel, Gabriel, Michael .

2004: Ascension of Angels, Toronto, Ontario. 25' x 40' mural showing angels conducting souls to heaven, created onsite during construction of new mausoleum building at Beechwood Cemetery. Difficult site involved slanting wall with quarter-round inward curve, irregular dimensions and varying radius, overhead skylight. Shown here: details.

2001: Steamboats, Fort Frances, Ontario. 80' x 40' exterior mural featuring steamboats and modes of dress at the turn of the last century in the northern Ontario community of Fort Frances. Shown here: detail.

2000: The Tradition Continues, Kenora, Ontario. 30' x 70' exterior mural featuring local hockey heroes..

1999 Busy Wagons, Collingwood, Ontario. Collingwood's first civic art mural, a large exterior mural featuring a turn-of-the-last-century streetscape that inaugurated Collingwood's public mural program. Shown here: detail and complete image.

2000: Farming in Essex County, Essex Centre, Ontario. Large exterior murals of agricultural life on Wilson Avenue. Shown here: details of west and east panels.

1997: General Motors Mural, Oshawa, Ontario. Eight themed panels commissioned for the Bond Street Bus Station exterior by General Motoros, dealing with aspects of the automotive industry. Shown here: Complete image and three panels - "Environment", "Innovation" and "Safety".

1992-1993: Toronto Sun Mural, Toronto, Ontario. TORONTO HISTORICAL BOARD AWARD OF MERIT: 4,000-square foot mural comprising over 200 vignettes depicting 200 years of Toronto history.

1991: The Scarborough Rifle Company, 1866, Scarborough, Ontario. SCARBOROUGH URBAN DESIGN AWARD. Large exterior mural on the west wall of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13 on Kingston Road.