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Page 12 THE HERALD Wednesday Nbvember 8 1989 Reproducing life satisfies our hunger for the past family of the artist that had come together for the occasion It was also the unveiling of a dona tion of her husbands artworks by Lillian Black to the Town of Hills Some of these donated works are displayed in the gallery together with the paintings that are for sale What we now need is an art museum where part of this donation can be on view at all times for the enjoyment of the citizenry My family had a passion for clocks Grandfather clocks They stood everywhere in hallways and on like tall serines They boomed out the hours like gongs One woke up from it in the night with a beating heart hen I was about five years old I learned that all these presences in the echoing house measured the passage of time I started to dislike them because they seemed to be either too fast or too slow ac cording to what one was doing I discovered however that one could make time stop at least for a while by repeating a tune over and over again on the gramophone Simply by lifting the needle on the great ebony box in my fathers room I could listen to the same sweet melody as often as I liked In my memory the haunting Tango sung by Negri competed through those prewar years with the ponderous sounds of the clocks whose time keeping brought us ever closer to doom while nobody paid attention Reproduction it seems is able to stop the river of time in our minds for a limited period and that fact accounts for the popularity of the many reproduction methods we have invented Most of our enter tainment comes to us reproduced From sport to film to music to painting it all reaches us around two or three corners Our taste for reproduced living joins with our hunger for the past when we im agine life was whole nurturing and uncomplicated In painting this hungry longing of ours has VON needs volunteers to work with shutins Volunteers to work with frail elderly shutins are being sought by the Halton Branch of the Vic torian Order of Nurses for the Friendly Visitor Program Each volunteer is matched with a suitable client and is given counselling in dealing with situa tions that may arise Friendly Visitors perform a number of functions from prepar ing tea to running simple errands They take their clients on outings and help them with shopping and as the name implies they are available to chat and listen Husband and wife teams are also encouraged to volunteer as Friend ly Visitors Twice each year inservice ses sions are held for the volunteers at VON Headquarters at To become a VON Friendly Visitor in Oakville or Burlington contact Ida Curne Friendly Visitor Coordinator at 8278800 PAMPER YOURSELF ESTHETICIAN EfcfusivcfyyounTitncss Centre given us painters that supply us with the images of unspoiled wildlife illustrations of warm and affectionate family togetherness and nostalgic memories of wholesome country living Peter from Sparta On who was at Art Effects in Georgetown last Friday to pro mote his paintings and the reproductions taken from them belongs to the last category He is an attractive bigbodied man who knows how to sell himself He is self taught and his drawing ability is limited You will not find the display of pyrotechnics in a Peter painting that are customary in a Robert Bateman painting for instance Instead you get slightly awkward and quaint depictions of rural life strong in mood and oddly trustworthy These paintings do not awe you nor do they tower over you With some diligence and application you probabjy could do them yourself Their appeal rests with the wholeness of the artists vision No car nor factory nor developer is in sight in a Peter painting His world is still waiting to be polluted Us people are upright souls untempted by the allmighty buck paints fantasies we ant to believe in The Art Effects Gallery and Framing Centre on 348 Guelph St in Georgetown has to offer more than Peter s reproduc tions It is the only gallery town as far as 1 know that sells antique botanical engravings lithographs architectural and historical prints and old maps All of these are true collectors items It is to be wished that some discriminating art lovers will make Art Effects their favorite browsing place The gallery open ed this past summer In its smart quarters it exhibits besides the an tique prints reproductions by fashionable artists like Robert Bateman Carl Brenders John SeeryLester and Peter Ellenshaw High quality framing is provided by Barry Bell who is in my opi that rare thing a creative framer Bring him anything and tell him to frame it give him carte blanche so to say and he will do a superb and tasteful job Most are craftspeople Barry is an artist The opening of Immortal Spint the exhibition and sale of paintings by the late Frank C Black at the gallery of the Halton Hills Cultural Centre on Nov was an affair full of sentiment and remembrances for the friends and Foodstuff Shredded or Fine Coconut One LB I 99 GROUND PECANS RED 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