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^ 2310 Bridge Rd. (between 3rd Line & Bronte Rd.) 9 0 RATES Junior/Student Adult Couple Family ...$40 ...$80 ...$125 ...$140 We Encourage New Members Active membership, ladder, leagues, lessons, Sunday Socials, excellent teaching pro. For more information, call Lynn Kirk: 847-7838 Margo MacLean: 825-3588 BUY «c SELL QUALITY USED GOODS ? TENNIS CLUB ? 90 90 REGISTRATION Saturday, April 10th, 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. ® 90 Saturday, April 17th, 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. 90 * * AT THE CLUBHOUSE ^ Friday, April 9, 1999 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Faces appear in her art work (C on tinued from page 15) the windows of the OAS. "There is a square and a trian­ gle, vertical and horizontal lines, black-and-white, the primary colours - red, blue and yellow, and the complementary colours - orange, green and purple," she explains. Giroux goes through phases in her art - from painting to sculpt­ ing to textiles to pottery, and from portraits to abstracts to contem­ porary to still life. "I work through it, get it out of my sys­ tem," she says. During the 1940s and early '50s her paintings were realistic, but by the late '50s she had changed to a more impressionis­ tic style. Then in the '60s, she began experimenting with action painting; but during her time at the Ontario College of Art in the late '60s and early '70s, she con­ centrated on portraiture. "Since then, human faces appear in a great deal of my work - paintings, clay vases, and alabaster, soapstone and lime­ stone sculptures," she says, adding that even the few original flower pots hanging in her Oakville home have faces on them. Giroux participated in the Fibre Fusion show at Gairloch Gallery in 1989, and one of her fibre pieces resided in Neyagawa, Japan for two years as part of an art exchange program. That piece was later donated to Gairloch for a fundraiser. This seasoned artist has even dabbled in "functional art," giv­ ing the sun damaged mail box on the front of her Oakville home a facelift with a cow design, and decorating the tool shed with flowers and clover. "I had to clean, rust proof and prime the shed and then paint it," she says of the brightly painted shed in her yard. But then the Oakville artist enjoys dabbling in contemporary art, 'fun' pieces like the one that features a collage of shoulder pads, or the canvas with the water faucet protruding from its centre, or the piece that she is donating to tomorrow's (Saturday) art auc­ tion, titled Let There Be Light. The majority of Giroux's sculptures are carved out of alabaster, soapstone or wood, and each medium has its pros and cons. She likes the hardness of alabaster but not the physical labour it takes to complete a piece. On the other hand, soap­ stone is soft and easy to work with, but the finished product scratches easily. "Wood is fun," she says. "But alabaster presents a challenge. I like random shapes.. .1 drill a hole in it to let the light through, and I wet the stone to see what colour it is - some are translucent and some are opaque...I usually look for heads or faces (in the shapes)." And speaking of heads - her head and her husband's, cast in cement, are displayed in the back­ yard each summer, along with a few others. But despite Giroux's garden ornaments and the paintings and sculptures that decorate her home, she says people often don't con­ sider these accessories when they are decorating their homes. "People will spend $1,000 on drapes but won't spend $300 on a painting when they are decorating their room," she says, with a shrug. Giroux keeps her art knowl- Turn your bedroom into The Mission Collection'. edge updated by belonging to a variety of local arts organizations and by acting as a docent at Oakville Galleries. "You have to keep up to know what's going on. You have to get involved to appreciate contemporary art," she says. Her involvement, of course, often includes auctions and open houses. Consequently, Giroux has been busy these past few months. She has donated a large painting, an alabaster sculpture, and a small portrait to the Oakville Art Society's auction tomorrow night at Centennial Gallery, as well as one painting and one soapstone sculpture to Kaleidoscope, which opens today (Friday) at the Burlington Art Centre (BAC), 1333 Lakeshore Rd., Burlington (632-7796). For more details on Kaleido­ scope, turn to page 16, or call the BAC. Photo by Barrie Erskine Mae Giroux is currently completing her second painting of a Parisian bag lady on a round canvas in her basement studio. The first one she painted has been sold. 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