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By KATHY YANCHUS Oakville Beaver Staff Watercolors have the capacity to do wonderful things for you, but they also have the potential to ruin your day. And that, in a nutshell, is why artist Barbara Hare is so enthralled with the medium. Hare, a longtime member of the Oakville art scene and founding memâ€" ber of the defunct Little Gallery, found watercolors a nice complement to her love of drawing. "You have to continue on...experiâ€" ment with other things," says Hare of her plunge into the very unpredictable medium. She has studied with a number of instructors both in Toronto â€" where she was born and educated â€" and Oakville but feels her painting tours with Gery Puley which have taken her to such spots as Yugoslavia, Thailand, Spain and the Greek Islands, have evolved . THE OAKVILLE BEAVER | FridayFile Dw\\l Presented by The Oakcuille Beaver First solo show in years her work even further. "I think I became less involved with the particular thing I‘m painting and got more abstract, loose," says Hare. Her first solo exhibit in many years, which opens tonight at Green Gables Gallery, resulted from this experimentation in abstract. Detouring from her landscapes and figurative drawings and paintings, Hare focused on abstract florals and when Green Gables owner Anne Grandin saw one of her works, suggested a solo exhibit, an ‘adventure‘ which evokes different emotions in Hare. "It‘s like hanging yourself on the wall," she laughs. The show, which runs for two weeks, will include several of her new larger florals plus landscapes from her travels and local sketching ‘expediâ€" tions‘. "This is the first summer that I had a closer look around town," savs Hare. Hare says she was born with a penâ€" cil in her hand, her schoolbooks were covered with drawings. "I was the happiest when I was drawing," she recalls. Her family talked her out of pursuâ€" ing art fulltime and she wound up takâ€" ing a business course and working for many years as a travel agent. Now retired, Hare is content to paint for the sheer love and enjoyment of it. "I do what I want to do. I don‘t have to worry about deadlines or paint any particular thing...," says Hare who meets weekly yearâ€" round with memâ€" bers of the Oakville Art Society to sketch and paint and keep the OAS Gallery, the Burlington Cultural Centre and Prism Gallery stocked with her work. Previous exhibits have been held at the Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton Place, Oakville Town Hall and Centennial Gallery. Hare‘s exhibit of watercolors opens tonight between 7 and 9 p.m. and ****************************‘******: FREE â€" MINI GOLF 5 Adult 5 Children Buy one Adult or Child Round of Mini Golf and receive the second of equal value FREE. 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Sun. 10 a.m.â€"9 p.m. (Closed Monda e (r]s o o * ***#*** "~ [ 4RA F8 als /\ We A\i\ \\ Wm\ l‘l e SXE 8 m â€"11 r‘:xr'c" ‘c"i’t a t % x FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1993 PAGE 10 Elegant comedy... pg. 15 301 id Dl n‘min A twoâ€"week exhibit of artist Barbara Hare‘s watercolors opens tonight at Green Gables Gallery on John Street. (Photo by Peter McCusker) Gables is open Tuesday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyone is welcome to drop by the gallery, located at 46 John St. If you are unable to attend tonight, Green Finding their niche in the music world It all started with a guitar and two voices. And now Cuccullen‘s Lament has a demo tape, an official debut behind them and enthusiasm for their music which they hope is contagious. When 19â€"yearâ€"old acoustic guitarist Jeff Low hooked up with 20â€"yearâ€"old vocalist and songwriter Michael O‘Grady, a product of St. Michael‘s Choir School and the Etobicoke School of the Arts, the two hit it off musically. Low liked the music O‘Grady was playing. "I thought it had potential. I figured we had something good so we started recording," says Low. Eventually they brought in more players, "somehow" got together $2,000,recorded their music and are now in search of publicity. "It‘s a very Canadian sound," says Low and O‘Grady of their music which they find difficult to define. "There‘s a certain sound developing in Canada and this follows that trend." A few months ago someone labelled it celtic rock, now the music is evolvâ€" ing," there are so many different influences," says O‘Grady. "It‘s sort of pop music with acoustic guitar," says Low adding "that you have to see us live." To be where the action is, they are moving into Toronto where the bass player and drummer already live, and spreading the word about themselves to various industry magazines hoping for reviews of their tape. "It‘s fun. It‘s an honest thing. I truly believe this stuff is great and I figure I‘m doing them a favor. 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