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Artist focus: Janelle Resendes

Port Moody artist needs a wheelchair to reach her easel
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Janelle Resendes — a 31-year-old visual artist with cerebral palsy who moved from Nanaimo to Port Moody four years ago — studied painting and drawing in school and at Vancouver Island University.

“I’ve always had a pencil or paint brush in my hand,” she said during an interview at her Moody Centre home last week to promote her GoFundMe page, a fundraiser to pay for a new power wheelchair.

Without the machine, Resendes can’t lift herself up to reach her easel and, as a result, she’s been unable to supply product for her art and card business (junique.ca).

Resendes likes to create abstract and landscape images and uses both hands to steady her brush, pencil crayon, pencil, pen or pastel marker as it touches the canvas.