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Wednesday, April 28, 1999 Photo by Peter J. Thompson Ana Bernardo is a third-year student in the textile studio of Sheridan College's School of Crafts and Design. Above she is putting the finishing touches on one of her designs for this weekend's Open House. Figurative textile designs are her forte By Carol Baldwin ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Ana Bernardo was inspired by the native women of Ghana. She went to the west African country as a high school graduate unsure of her artistic future, and she returned eight months later ready to delve into the world of textiles. "I did a little bit of traveling in Ghana and did some volunteer work during that time, staying in villages. So, not only did I form great relationships with people there, they wanted to teach me what they do. They have indigo vats in the villages; and they did bank­ ing and dying. I was completely intrigued," says the third-year Sheridan textile student. 'Traveling through the markets there was a big part of my inspiration, and you can see that in my colour palette. I like using fairly bold and very rich colours in my work." But it isn't just the colours in her work that are reminiscent of Africa, it is the figures she includes in many of her designs, particularly in her silk paintings. "This year, though, I've been getting into more conceptual-based work, which doesn't involve actual drawing of figures - maybe representations of figures but not actual draw­ ings," she says, admitting that the human form seems to creep into all of her designs. "I started off with bold colours, but this last little while, they're more subdued. I do any­ thing that will help to explain what I'm trying He's bringing veneer back By Carol Baldwin ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR to get across to the viewer." For example, she says, a bust that she's cre­ ated out of beeswax reflects a woman's beau­ ty, after she's had a mastectomy. "It's a sculp­ ture... about loss and beauty, and what a woman goes through with a mastectomy," says Bernardo, explaining that in Africa, scar­ ring is a sign of beauty. 'They have scarring rituals. It's a rite of passage.. .Babies get scars on their stomachs, and it is considered beauti­ ful." Bernardo's sculptures, done in felt, are also figurative. She draws the images onto the background piece of felt, then takes each indi­ vidual colour from its separate roll, and layers it onto the pattern, beginning with the finest thread. And, she has designed a variety of yardage patterns as well. In fact this talented young woman gleaned some commissions for yardage during last year's open house at Sheridan. "And I sold some yardage last year - my first three-colour print...a sort of Asian flo­ ral...on heavy cotton twill," she says, adding that this year, she will have pieces in the grad show at the photo gallery as well as items in the textile studio. She says she will have about half a dozen pieces in the two exhibits - the beeswax bust, some felt wall pieces, and some hand-painted silk wall hangings - but no yardage. "I've sold all my yardage," she explains. Bernardo is hoping for a similar response this year, even though she's going to be busy for the next few months with the commissions that she already has - both in textiles and oil paintings. Yes, she paints, too. But this particular artist says that when it came to formal school­ ing, she leaned towards textiles not only because of the African influence, but because she thought it would have a more practical application after graduation. And, she adds, "I enjoy using this medium to translate my ideas...I've always liked the feel of fabric. But, I'll do oil painting on the side." Now, with graduation looming on the hori­ zon, the 24-year-old artist is following a few leads she has for jobs in the textile business, creating fabric designs. "I know what's going to make me happy, and that's continuing on with the stuff I'm doing now ...I'd liked to maybe open up my own business or go into surface design, which I'm planning to do for about a year," she says, explaining that her own business will come a little later since start-up supplies - a printing table, dyes, a steamer, screens, emulsion, and so on - create a financial problem at the moment. "In a perfect world, I would like to do sur­ face design as a freelancer, and I'd also like to have shows on the side. I have some partners who are joining in with me, and we're plan­ ning to do a show." But her next show, of course, will be at Sheridan's Open House this weekend. THE OAKVILLE BEAVER V eneer is back. Solid wood is nice, but too cumbersome. Veneer, on the other hand, is flexible, versatile, attrac­ tive, easy to work with, and it holds its shape, says Daniel Durocher, third- year student in the furniture studio at Sheridan College's School of Crafts and Design (SOCAD). "People (other students) always poke fun at me. They say, 'We saw your name on a piece of wood out there, but we know it's not yours. It couldn't be," ' he says. "But a lot of French furniture was all done with veneer work. There was actually veneer on top of solid w ood...I've started really liking that stuff, and I'm trying to reintroduce pattern and veneer w ork.. .kind of like borrowing from the old to make new stuff. And it's not so off the wall." However, Durocher has considered making a piece of furniture from Sty­ rofoam, although more for a challenge than anything else. The idea came from an assignment he did this past year in which one of his instructors asked him to research the idea of cre­ ating furniture from foam. Durocher concluded that it definitely would not be a cost effective material to work with. Nevertheless, he has created Foam Follows Function, a unit of 16 interchangeable pieces created from medium density fibre board and paint­ ed white to look like foam. "Foam looks m odular to m e," Durocher says, explaining that his 16- piece foam-looking unit will be in this weekend's Open House exhibit. "It would be fun to make it out of (real) foam." And by the year 2000, Durocher plans to have something created from foam for a special exhibition that he (See 'From Carpentry' on page D4) Harbour Gallery "CELEBRATING OUR 10"' ANNIVERSARY" NEW PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE by Gallery Artists Brian Atyeo, Don Cavin, Joanne Clarke, Gisele Comtois. Bruno Cote, Art Cunanan, Corinne Duchesne, Douglas Edwards, Pat [-airhead, Telfotd ten ton. C.A. Henry, Martin Hirschbeig, Daniel Izzaid, Joyce Kamikura, Alan Kingsland, H. E. Kuckcin, Brent Laycock. 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