Paola’s bold and cheerful designs are intended to enhance the urban landscape and add vibrancy to the neighbourhood. 

Decorated utility boxes featuring colorful floral and animal-themed artwork, situated in a green space near residential buildings.

Artist: Paola Syme
Location: King George Blvd & 81A Ave
Category: Civic collection – Utility Boxes
Year Installed: 2024

About Little Things

Paola’s bold and cheerful designs are intended to enhance the urban landscape and add vibrancy to the neighbourhood while reminding us that we share these spaces with a diversity of little creatures. The use and repetition of fractal-like patterns represents the interdependent and interconnected nature of living things within the modern city, whether they are plants, animals or people.

About the Artist

Paola is a Dutch-born Canadian artist and designer that draws inspiration from nature. She illustrated over a dozen books under the pen name Paola Opal that feature animal characters in nature. She lives and works in Surrey, where she walks the local parks nearly every day.