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I THE HERALD Jay May 19DI Page 17 Arts and Ideas Art Friends are planning two very special exhibitions The Friends of the Hills Libraries have for many years sponsored art exhibitions at the Gallery of the Ctiltural Cen tre in Georgetown Artists of this and neighboring regions had splendid exhibitions in the beautiful gallery space that was once a church Here are the names of the artists the Friends have honored in the past Robert Ken Dan by Jack Reid Barbara Howard John Hall Frank Black and An dreas Drenters This year the Friends are sponsoring two shorter exhibi and sales instead of one long one lasting all summer The first opening on June 5 and con turning to July 6 is called Harald J Newman Paintings from Six Decades the second opening on July and continu ing to August 10 has the title Tony Meers The Making of Working Artist Frederic Harald John Bat Newman was born in Montreal in 1899 the son of a stockbroker At an early age he became interested in painting and writing He studied at University in Montreal and at Cambridge as well as at the Lon don Polytechnic School and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Pans In the late 20s he came to Toronto where he befriended artists and became a feature of the old English establishment and Toronto society Later still he did archeological and historical research in various parts of the world Eventually he moved with his family to Balhnafad and became a well known personality in this region In 1962 he was appointed director of the Halton County Museum at Kelso Hal Newman as he was called by his friends was a complex character with a host of talents He was a cultured man with many and changing interests Painting was almost the only con slant in his life Thanks to his Ideas and The Arts by John Sommer stepdaughter Mrs Rosemary Campbell we have a record of him as a painter that spans at least six decades He always re mained a member of the class he was born into There is no stress nor turmoil in his art nor does he express avantgarde ideas in his pain tings There is however a refine ment of touch and coloration in his best work that is very attrac tive and for these reasons alone his art is memorable Tony Meers was born in Brampton in and grew up in Georgetown where his parents still reside After graduating from Georgetown and District High School he studied at York University and at the University of Toronto From 1977 to 1980 he worked as a commercial artist for Sears Advertising Department In 1980 he set himself up as a freelance commercial artist in Toronto For two years he freelanced for Sears mainly but increasingly became known in the trade for the book covers he did for Harle quin Penguin and General Publishing He lives with his family in a pleasant house in Toronto and is working in a large studio whos door opens into his garden I know Tony Meers from a long time ago when he was an unusually talented year old boy He had an abiding interest in the observable world in par ticular the human face and figure This interest of his has never changed and over the years he has acquired the skills and the knowledge that is needed for his kind of talent He has become a working artist an artist who has to meet deadlines Quite often a messenger boys comes to his studio and watches the artist making the last changes to his design before it is rushed to the publisher A work ing artist will very rarely paint something for himself Instead he or she will pamt to the re quirements of a client who hires him for a particular purpose We are surrounded by art of this nature but we hardly ever look at it as art We say com mercial art with disdain in our voices forgetting that once all art was commissioned by wealthy clients who because they held the purse strings exer cised control over the outcome The freedom the modem artist do whatever he likes did not exist before the century and of course this freedom has as a result that most artists to day are ignored Hal Newman painted only when he felt like it Tony paints to order Hal Newman was a man who besides many other enterprises that engaged him dunng a long life was also able to catch the mood of a landscape or the mood of a face on paper or canvas Tony belongs to the great army of working artists who give expression to even the most secret of our desires and by doing so seduce us to keep on buyuig beyond the point of satie ty Two exhibitions two different definitions of art two different artist personalities both adding their work to the astonishing human fabne that covers the planet we call our home Pioneer Village to feature samples of early travellers food At Creek Pioneer Village everyone becomes a traveller of the century on the weekend of June Well Eat On The Way is a program which focuses on the foods that were eaten by early Canadian travellers Lacking modem day conve niences these travellers would carry such portable and long lasting foods as dried fruit maple sugar soup in a pocket dned soup Nice Cookies That Will Keep Good Three Months and unleavened breads like bannock and hardtack Visitors can enjoy samples of these foods their tour of the Village Visitors can also play the Journey Game which is based on the names of early communities in the Metro region In the Village Grain Barn they can see a rare wagon that was once a common means of transportation for freight and settlers Also the annual Service will take place on Sun day June at 2 30 This pro cessional service will be lead by the Rt Rev Allan Read Bishop of Ontario for the Anglican Church of Canada This centuries old custom one of sup plication and asking includes the blessing of seeds animals soil water and people in the hopes of a bountiful fall harvest Black Creek Pioneer Village is open from to on weekdays and a to p m on weekends and holidays The Village is located at Jane Street and Steeles Avenue in northwest Metro Toronto For more in formation call Drenters exhibition open to the public During the of 1990 Andreas or exhibited 18 pieces sculpture at the Galltn of tin lialloit Hills Cultural in Georgetown This exhibition won him frunds in our region It was an artistic and financial suit ess been waiting for another to see the work of tins great 1 artist Now there is another opportunity Beginning Saturday May 25th Andreas will open the famous Academv where he lives and works to the public every weekend to October for an ex of his latest work In several rooms of the Old as well as in the courtyard and the garden pieces of sculpture will be displayed Almost half of them are from the years 1990 and The hours to see the exhibition every Saturdav and are from l to A good friend of the artist the famous chef Herbert at the restaurant La Vieille in has adjusted his lun and dinner hour to the Andreas Drenters exhibition If vou desire to eat haute cuisine before or after you have experienced fine art vou tan do so at the from 11 a m on for the luncheon or from on for dinner Between 2 and desert and coffee is served Go to 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