Corporations, Charities, Not-for-Profit Organizations, Government Social Services

Contracts for Union Gospel Mission Charity Organization

UGM Donor Book, “Empowering Women, Recovering Lives”

Due to the success of her 2010 donor book, Felicity Don was contracted again, in 2019, by Union Gospel Mission Resource Development to produce coffee table books for donors who had donated $50,000 and up. This time proceeds went towards building a high-rise for women (single, with kids and/or babies) who are fighting addiction. 

Felicity was on site for 5 months painting life-sized portraits & writing their stories. She had the paintings scanned & inserted, with stories, into a coffee table book. Then she  oversaw production of 58 beautifully designed, hard cover coffee table books, designed by Toronto graphic designer, Jack Scrivener. Book production was finished just as COVID shut everything down – March, 2020! 

UGM Donor Book, “One Soul at a Time” 

In 2010, Felicity was commissioned by Union Gospel Mission to produce donor books of painted portraits and stories of their clients, for high contributing donors who donated toward the construction of a high-rise intended to house men fighting addiction.

Felicity was on site for 6 months painting portraits and writing their stories, then oversaw production of 75 beautifully designed, hard cover coffee table books, designed by graphic designer Jack Scrivener, based in Toronto.

The Gathering Place Community Centre Government Social Services

In 2021 Felicity had a short contract at The Gathering Place Community Centre to draw their valuable volunteers. The Gathering Place provides services to vulnerable populations in downtown Vancouver. 

On the pastel portraits, the volunteers wrote their own names and a line of comment to illustrate their feelings about the social services offered by the Gathering Place. Felicity made five single volunteer paintings and one group painting. Everyone was wearing masks, as this was in the thick of the COVID epidemic. The paintings are a record of the times.

“Thank you so much for….. your brilliant art. It makes our space so full and lively.”

– Dallas Gonsalves, Director of the Gathering Place

Intercontinental Hotel Montreal

In 1991, Felicity was contracted by the World Trade Centre (New York) through Champalimaud Design to design to execute a 500 sf mural in the stone vaulted underground Wine Tasting Room/Conference Room in the Intercontinental Hotel in Old Montreal. The results were featured in Canadian Interiors Magazine, March/April 1992.

Felicity chose not to totally cover the curved grey rock tunnel of the labrinthe under the hotel. She instead hired Italian plasterers to cover specifically graphed-out areas, to give the effect of an ancient mural that is falling apart. This was a cunning way to leave exposed some of the beautiful grey rock of the vault.

As this was originally a wine tasting room (now a multi-purpose meeting room) it was designed in old Italian baroque style, with a setting sun, pinkish on one end, golden on the other, and cupids flying about among the clouds on the vaulted ceiling above the viewers’ heads.

The lovely lights were created by designer Matoula Karagiannis, of Champalimaud Design, to emulate small suns. Beside each sun light, small tables are placed for customers to sit and drink wine.