Danns House

Albert Seaman's Paintings, Drawings and Essays

A little house in Bramalea

Watercolour on Arches 140 lb CP paper. Image size 12" (30.5 cm) by 16" (40.6 cm) © 1988

This was a very ordinary little house. It was one of many other very ordinary little houses planted in the fields of Chinguacousy in the early 1960s with the beginning of Bramalea. It would be some years before the district became absorbed into the expanding City of Brampton, by which time a great many more similar houses had been added to the scenery.

The owners of this house had a small collectibles business which the lady operated from her wheel chair. As may be expected, the Brampton store offered a wide range of products suitable for decorating the plethora of new homes in the neighbourhood. A varied assembly of fine art was included in the inventory, a reflection on proprietors' own private collection by prominent artists. In 1988, I was commissioned to paint this residence and the result is shown above.

A small house and a small business. Not old-established and certainly not very well known, but typical of many similar family enterprises that formed major links in the growth and development of the City of Brampton.

Picture status - In a private collection.