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Haren Vakil was born in Mumbai, India. He holds a degree in Architecture from India and a post graduate diploma from the Victoria College of Art, Victoria BC.Haren worked as a designer and planner in India and the Netherlands. He came to Canada to pursue graduate studies at the University of British Columbia. Since then he has worked as a designer and planner with various Vancouver and Victoria firms. He now lives in Victoria and works as a painter, designer and illustrator. Haren is a member of the Island Illustrator Society and teaches part-time at The Victoria College of Art in Victoria B.C.
"Architectural settings and elements provide the structure and context for most of my work. Within this context I interweave, juxtapose and counterpoint various icons, objects, figures, and creatures to arrive at a compositional whole. The images and symbols in my work are derived from my experiences of various cultures, east and west. They reflect past and present, the mythical and the real, the profound and the mundane. My intent is to produce hybrid multicultural images sometimes with and sometimes without a recognizable theme or notion but always with a sense of wonder and an element of amusement".
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