Langford artist Paul Archer, known for creating massive murals overnight, pays homage to Hannah Day, who is battling leukemia, with his latest work.
Archer started painting the canvas dropsheet, which was donated by General Paint, on Friday and finished Saturday.
The artist said he wanted to create “something that’s big and lasting and makes a statement” and gives hope to other children with cancer.
The family saw the mural when they were home in Langford for a visit on the weekend.
Four-year-old Hannah “loved the painting,” said her mother, Brooke Ervin. “She loved it so much she wanted to go back that night.”
Hannah is cancer-free after a stem-cell transplant but must remain so for 100 days — until June 27 — before she can return home from B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.
“She is doing extremely well,” Ervin said.
Hannah was rushed to B.C. Children’s Hospital in August 2012 after being diagnosed with a rare type of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma.
Doctors blasted Hannah with radiation, and after a 16-month battle, she was rid of the cancer. But in December 2013, she developed a second cancer, leukemia, due to the radiation.
