Susanna Blunt was born above a bank.
It was the 1940s, and her parents were working for HSBC in the northern Chinese city of Harbin, where executives were granted penthouse apartments.
It’s a neat biographical detail that suggests the hand of destiny at work in the North Vancouver artist’s life, guiding her to a career that has placed millions of copies of her work in every bank in Canada.
After two decades, Blunt’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that has appeared on all Canadian coins will slowly begin disappearing from wallets, replaced by Steven Rosati’s portrayal of King Charles III.
The Royal Canadian Mint says
