While other kids were spending their allowance on toys or candy, Bill Pomeroy was buying art. “I'd buy posters or prints, and stick them up on my wall,” he laughs. “It's a little odd, I know, but I've always had an appreciation for art and artists. I never came from an artistic background – although my grandmother used to paint and draw, and I'd do that with her – but I'd always had a love of images and prints, and it just grew from there.”
Odd or otherwise, that interest eventually translated into a career for Bill. He started out working in a North Vancouver framing shop, and then later became the owner of Artrageous Pictures and Framing, a Commercial Drive staple since 1997.
“It was a business I sort of stumbled into,” he recalls. “I was in college doing drafting, with plans to go into architecture. I'd worked in drafting for a while, but back in those days you'd work for two or three months and then get laid off. I'd go back to framing for extra income, and then it just sort of stuck.”
