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 Weston
was seldom idle, either during his teaching days or in retirement. As
a teacher, he spent most of his free time painting and drawing, but
also designed and built new houses and made furniture and pottery. He
made his own frames with an old German mitre saw in his basement.(74)
"On the threshold of 80, Percy
Weston baches admirably in his home [on Dogwood Street], serves
an exotic drink called ‘The Dogwood Special’ to his friends; puts
his smocks through his automatic washer; feeds strips of fat to
the woodpeckers in his garden, and paints with a vigor that utterly
belies his age."(75)
He exhibited less frequently but a large
retrospective exhibit in 1959 at the Vancouver Art Gallery was a success.
His work was less highly regarded in the 1960s, but "he remained
steadfast in his devotion to the landscape."(76) Weston continued
to paint, and when he died, an unfinished canvas sat on his easel.(77)
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