PASSERS-BY outside King O’Malley’s pub in Civic this weekend will have noticed a painter hard at work, painting live in front of the bar area.
Veteran Gungahlin-based artist An Pan started his artwork, which captures the ambience of the city crowds, on Thursday (March 17).
Born in China, he has been drawing since the age of five.
He studied at the Chinese Oil Painting Academy in Beijing, but also served in the Chinese army before migrating to Australia in 1990, settling in Canberra to become a specialist in portraiture and undertaking many commissions.
An Pan has travelled back to China on several occasions to paint commissions of well-known Chinese and international public figures and has told “CityNews” of the enjoyment he experienced in capturing images quickly.
An Pan may be seen in Civic painting until tomorrow, March 20.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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