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“Sandstone City”
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“Sandstone City”

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In the 1980’s Paintsculpturist Christine Joubert has recorded a legacy of Calgary’s historic sandstone buildings, many which no longer exist. Preserving a bit of the city’s history was a labor of love she felt was important.

Her ‘’SANDSTONE CITY’ collection of 16 paintings, incorporating actual sandstone from one of the buildings, captures it perfectly

painted in the 1980’s

CN Station

Calgary City Hall

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Central High school

Central united church

Clarence Block

The Grain Exchange

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Steven ave.

Post Office and Customs House.

"Sandstone City"

Hudson Bay Co. Building

Bank of Montreal

Bank of Commerce

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Calgary General Hospital

James short school

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Fire Hall

knox presbyterian church.

Burns Building.

Starts with a small stream Acrlic Polymer mix with sandstone.

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Tina Joubert

Tina Joubert

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Christine is a self taught artiest and photographer, who enjoys going on adventures with her husband Garry. They search for interesting landscape and animals to photograph, through the rural roads of Alberta. Tina's photo library is now very extensive with a lot of content for her to create digital art pieces. She also spent thirty years in the food industry and has an appreciation for a good recipe, and tried many. She has three complete cook books and several hard cover albums entitled Joubert's Trails of Birds, Joubert's Impressions, Barn Country book, Country and floral settings.Christine has created eighteen paintings of Calgary's Sandstone City, using Acrylic Polymer mixed with actual crushed Sandstone! Contact: Christine Joubert prairiestone@shaw.ca

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Tina Joubert

Tina Joubert

Author, Community member

Christine is a self taught artiest and photographer, who enjoys going on adventures with her husband Garry. They search for interesting landscape and animals to photograph, through the rural roads of Alberta. Tina's photo library is now very extensive with a lot of content for her to create digital art pieces. She also spent thirty years in the food industry and has an appreciation for a good recipe, and tried many. She has three complete cook books and several hard cover albums entitled Joubert's Trails of Birds, Joubert's Impressions, Barn Country book, Country and floral settings.Christine has created eighteen paintings of Calgary's Sandstone City, using Acrylic Polymer mixed with actual crushed Sandstone! Contact: Christine Joubert prairiestone@shaw.ca

Vėjūnė Rimašiūtė

Vėjūnė Rimašiūtė

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Vėjūnė is a community manager who helps artists all over the world introduce their artwork to Bored Panda readers and in that way, become more popular. Since she was always fascinated by the art world, she studied Culture Management and Cultural Policy at Vilnius Academy of Arts where she expanded her knowledge about it. Now she's using all this knowledge to showcase its beauty and help others dive into the fascinating world of art.

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Vėjūnė Rimašiūtė

Vėjūnė Rimašiūtė

Author, Community member

Vėjūnė is a community manager who helps artists all over the world introduce their artwork to Bored Panda readers and in that way, become more popular. Since she was always fascinated by the art world, she studied Culture Management and Cultural Policy at Vilnius Academy of Arts where she expanded her knowledge about it. Now she's using all this knowledge to showcase its beauty and help others dive into the fascinating world of art.

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