Timmins artists bring a creative flair to their fences

Two Timmins artists bring life to fences Two Timmins artists have turned fences on their properties into creative works of art.

From bush logger to wood carver, Claude Fortin of Timmins is also an artist with his recent creation of a gate he carved and accented with a wood burning technique.

The gate -- which doubles as a fence -- is located on his property and is used to lock away belongings.

He said it's only in recent years that he's taken up these art forms and it only took him a few hours a day and only a couple of weeks in total to create it. He said his inspiration came from a video he saw online.

“I carved my animals, the bear, the squirrel, the fish and then it came in my mind what I wanted, when I was doing my animals," said Fortin.

"I had that in my head for a couple years."

While his art is on private property, there's another fence not too far away from his place that will be enjoyed by many.

At Cedar Meadows Resort and Spa, Marie-France Lafleur-Gagnon is spray-painting a wolf-inspired mural on a fence.

“I can’t do finger-painting like I usually do cause it’s a lot of slivers but I tried, but too rough for finger painting so I decided to give the spray painting a try and so far so good," said Lafleur-Gagnon of Art by MFLG.

Fence art Claude Fortin and Marie-France Lafleur-Gagnon are artists based in Timmins and have used fences as canvases to create works of art. (Lydia Chubak/CTV News)

The fence will be used as part of a wolf enclosure.

“There’s a wolf compound coming here at Cedar Meadows and I figured well it’s more interesting than brown plain fence so I decided to do a wolf mural with lots of colours because that’s my character and my type of personality.”

Lafleur-Gagnon said she's only just begun the mural. The fence is more than 600 feet long.