“I remember being shocked by seeing him there in front of the Carnegie Library, Hastings and Main. And he would be crouched on the ground and he had a board and he’d be making quick paintings. And people were buying them. And all these people were giving him like a dollar to do sketches… And I refused to buy one. I just refused to commission one, so to speak. And I remember people insisting they sign, and then I remember people bartering. They said, I’ll give you 50 cents. No, a dollar. I’ll give you 50 cents. Things like this. And I don’t know that he relented. But I remember this very unseemly kind of context and there was always a small crowd around him because people thought they could profit off him.”
Art & Influence
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Screenshot from [title tk], [date tk] showing Norval painting on the streets of Vancouver
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