Harbourside Kickabout

About the Work

Harbourside Kickabout finds the world's game at its smallest and sweetest scale: a handful of children playing keep-away on the broad stone quay of Coal Harbour marina. White yachts doze in their slips, condo towers of green glass climb the left edge, and the North Shore mountains hold the horizon under a lively, cloud-swept sky lettered with the championship mark. On a bench to the right a family pauses mid-stroll to watch, and a round plaza medallion painted like a stitched football anchors the foreground.

Pius offers the painting as the tournament's quiet promise — that long after the trophies are handed out, the game keeps living wherever there is a patch of open ground and a ball. The grandeur of the setting only sharpens the intimacy of the moment.

Process & Technique

Acrylic on canvas, with the marina's water built from interlocking knife-planes of jade, slate and white that read as chop and reflection. Figures are gestural, caught mid-motion in three or four strokes each, while the towers are dragged upward with a dry knife so their glass shimmers without hard edges.