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Article by: PAMELA MILLER   • Star Tribune   • May 5, 2012 -
2:02 PM  Two friends and I put our feet up at the sunny sidewalk
cafe and set down our souvenirs near steaming coffee and gourmet
sweets. And what souvenirs: bright, beautiful murals -- a little
abstract, a little nature-inspired -- painted on large canvas
banners.  My travel companions, art lovers on modest budgets,
had gotten them at an eclectic gallery as I wandered nearby
admiring the work of a Canadian artist I had never heard of and
will not soon forget. Before that, we had visited an evocative
museum in this beautiful Vancouver Island town, watched boats on
its indigo harbor, stumbled i