Pandora (Randy McArthur)

(1956 -)

Pandora left his home in Ontario at the age of fourteen and lived on the street for much of his life. He was part of the punk music scene in Vancouver in the late 1970s but gave it up for painting. He works at a harm reduction centre in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, a cause he is passionate about. Pandora paints almost daily, working on multiple canvases at the same time so his brain doesn’t get too crowded.