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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, Jan. 28, 1994 â€" 10 Join us for Monte Carlo Night! Saturday March 5, Otello‘s Banquet Hall Ticket Reservations, 844â€"7984 By KATHY YANCHUS Oakville Beaver Staff Tracey Bowen is a working mom and not unlike many fortuâ€" nate career women these days, her ‘office‘ is her home. "When I‘m working downstairs it‘s the same as if I was working (outside the home)," says Bowen, an accomplished and awardâ€"winâ€" ning artist with numerous group and solo exhibits to her credit. "When I‘m teaching, I usually paint at night and when I‘m not teaching, I use the morning." Pots tend to boil over and the dust isn‘t the only thing to pile up, but Bowen manages to make both fulltime passions work; in fact the two intertwine as she attempts to translate her life into art. "Most days I consider myself more of a juggler than an artist," Dorval location only Dinner 8:00 p.m. GOOD TIMES at CHAPS The world‘s largest chain of Comedy Clubs welcomes you to YUKâ€"YUKS COMEDY NIGHIT ‘A F THE BEST STAND UP COMEDY® DINNER SHOW PACKAGE â€" Only $1996 Show Time 9:30 p.m. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT....... Always something good cookin‘ ‘" writes Bowen in her introduction to Over the Rainbow, an installaâ€" tion of mixed media on canvas and wood recently on display at The Gallery located within the McMaster Medical Centre in Hamilton. "I play many different roles and I always try to maintain an equality amongst these roles. My creative process involves the image bank inside my head, my obsession with making things and the reality of preparing meals and doing laundry." Over the Rainbow is a series of images representing her search for balance, explains Bowen. "I have chosen to paint on canâ€" vas aprons and then stretch them like animal pelts on the traditional wooden stretcher frames used for painter‘s canvas. In front of these stretched aprons are three wooden bowls representing the constant act of food preparation in a LIMITED RESERVED SEATIING Tickets are selling fast, so don‘t delay. .. buy your tickets today! Dorval ~~323 Church St. in Miler Mew Church Reynolds Artist Tracey Bowen â€" juggling her obsession with creating and the reality of preparing meals and doing laundry. (Photo by Peter McCusker) very traditional watercolor painter. . painting city street scenes, the streetcars of Toronto. Very marketable, recognizable, very safe stuff." Having "a short attention span," Bowen, however, became bored with her subject matter and media, and moved into found objects and mixed media with no traditional subject matter. For slightly over a year now, she has been working exclusively with acrylic on canvas, a techâ€" nique spawned by the director of Toronto‘s Art Dialogue Gallery, one of the galleries which repreâ€" sents her. woman‘s life. This is especially important when children need to be provided for." Bowen says she began as "a \ hair and body Welcomes CHARMAINE! to their professional staff! Charmaine has worked in the Bronte area for 14 years! She would like to invite her new and old friends to visit her at her new location * Complete Hair Care * Tanning * Full Esthetic Services 67 Bronte Rd. Oakville Ont. L6L 3B7 (509) 847â€"7696 BURLINGTON, OAKVILLE 4 Book....$14.00 6 Book.... $22.00 Give all the hope you can. 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