bit DOWNTOWN September IBHI GEORGETOWNS HEART PAST PRESENT FUTURE Reprinted from last Wednesda History uniqueness on BIAs side To of riio Herald I was d and angered to set such negative headlines on your report of our Down town Georgetown study Phase II For the record It la true lhat we never hope to regain our earlier roll as the retail centre of Georj town What we CAN do 11 transform our core area Into an Important civic business and centre In Ihc heart Say so Consider this We have right litre not only what other give their eye teeth for but spend millions of dollars trying to create a compact old town centre with and full oil unique ter and charm hive some beautiful old buddings family owned shops land for parking a major traffic artery link to the rest of community and some love ly old residential space right next door We have a new apartment complex and room lo build more Wc a library centre unique to all the area because of its old town location and hist And we have a group of small business who cart enough to work together lo our problems and who each ytar out of their own pockets try to make Downtown Georgetown shop and a Frank featured in celebration of local arts Just in time for arts centres opening House Sol surveys our best painters Herald Staff Writer John owner of Gallery House Sol on Charles Street in Georgetown prints set the new a good He put together show featuring five George artists Frank Black Grelchen Day Reginald layson Jo Walterson and Mar A Survey of Painting In Georgetown til Oct 1 1 wanted lo do the kind of show one hopes we sec a lot at the new centre he said Besides local familiar to area residents the show includes novices Reginald Finliy son paintings have never been exhibited in fore In fact this Is Mr Flnlayson first show I vebcen essentially pamt for myself he said He paints as a form of relaxation he said A dally commuter to Toronto where ties in charge of advertising sates for Chatelaine magazine Mr studied sing art layout design and color at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto Next to Mr s paintings are wjtercolors by Grelchen her first exhibit at House Sol She has exhibited at the Georgetown Library Mrs is aiming to have her own show next spring or fall in the new home moved into in July She is especially pleased because it contains a studio and has lots of wall space for displiying hc paint ings Mrs Day says she s partial to working with watercolors and acrylic paints Although she does much more realism paintings she used to she still enjoys do tracts AKTTLACIIHl ft former art it a Burlington school Mrs Day now leaches interior dec orating part time at Sheridan College She has a degree in fine arts from the University of Guelph Most abstracts originate from something that was real she said If I look at an object I like lo visualize what it could look like flat she said Her water color Iris serves as an example of work bordering on the abstract she said Each shape is painted vidually and it comes Out as a whole If you took one small section of it you would see it would be abstract she said Shape and color arc Import ant to Mm Day lhat why she likes painting flowers because you can break Ihem up Into shapes she said Most of Mr inlayson works on exhibits are pes of Georgetown Three paintings were done from photographs he look while abroad four years There arc places my wife and I went to that I know 1 lies tried to recapture them wllh paint and brush because pic lures fade and so do mcmorl Sonic people paint to sell I paint to remember ht said That a why he changed his style pointing from abstract to realistic in 1J75 His paint Hills in that of down town Kabul in re mind him of the time he spent there Before to Mr inlayson used lot of in his paintings he said The in Australia isn filtered through clouds and is very brilliant it up his works he slid well Mr said s to punt more people into his llltlTIME- did one with people in recmtly I thought I wab painting but I Ihem there were people in it he smiled Because selling his work is still new to Mr he said lies a hard time adjusting giving his poinl Shop DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN WHERE SELECTION SERVICE VALUE AHE HARD TO BEAT lie names and addresses of the people buying my paintings to be sure re in hinds so I know where are even when they ri resold he the work of Jo browns beiges gold- even Mrs herself is I in Georgetown for seven years Mrs Walterson runs Gallery in Terra Colt with Agnes I love shape and she siid Working mainly and there is pleasing simplicity have exhibited I I m going strange emotional attachment now to my works I want to gel lid Miss Some were Miss has sev en works ondnphy some loaned for the show and some owned by Mr himself IWtlSTrH I lowers ore a popular sub ject for who paints them even in the winter when her garden is snowed in Sht flowers or depends on pi mis she had polled indoors or she uses hundreds of be a big show month at the new library she said and will be ill new Pa he came bick from World War I Frank as an apprentice Magazine He taught art at Georgetown District High School for nine years after moving here in Most of the work done has been in oil he I used to do lot of then they went of People now like them again and I gone back lo Ihem he said He seen a lot of changes In the way is taught he said There was a lot of me in my days at Ihc Ontario College of If the principal thought your work v is any good he would put his Inltnls in the comer It meant something to you Mr Black advises young to go to as many art galleries as they can lo sec as much as tliev can Pick out the knowledge you wont from the paintings what you like and don like learn from it Mr moved to George town because il was an ideal place for an artist You can get almost any Ihlng you want to paint here rolling hills old houses street scenes he said And you don have to travel a lot of miles EXCITING NEWS FROM STEPRITE SHOES IDE Exclusive new 1981 styles Just arrived Super comfortable daytime footwear 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planning in this has been and continues to be cuorm cosily to all of us 1 was boil I planning about policy for Downtown that will set the trend for to come To pi for a new municipal complex and or a food store is progress finally A good phn put Into place jnrs an would have saved from iin of i very prob lems we face tod ly Of course we I to start to do something NOW know that too and wc know the small ess person is often hii or hi r own worst enemy shun uniform store hours and a public flul let s look at Phase II What wc have now forthefirat lime really is a strategy for planned lune We have possibility of ending short lighted mil solutions The team has helped us to see and to re think what our unique are It up us to bund on the positive things we have here by taking a new look around The problems wont all disappear like your headlines maybe they could be re arranged a so the outlook does appear so bleak- when maybe Its really not to bleak at Lynn Barnard Chairman Improvement Assoc A 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