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Wednesday. May 16, 2001 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER B5 Original art on view at Wellspring open house By Carol Baldwin ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Artistic licence has given Wellspring a different look, complete with a lush front garden and stairs leading up to the front door. A woodcut of Wellspring was creat ed by Oakville artist Naoko Matsubara while she was looking at the support centre for cancer patients and their families on a landscape-free construc tion site. Turns out her vision was a lit tle different than the architect's, but then that's art. And the framed woodcut of Wellspring, donated by the internationallyknown artist, hangs above the recep tion desk in the newly constructed facility. It all began with Mayor Ann Mulvale's 50th birthday celebration. One of Matsubara's woodcuts was on the mayor's wish list as was the comple tion of Wellspring, a facility that the long-time Oakville mayor has support ed since its inception. "They (Wellspring officials) wanted to thank her personally; so they approached me," explains Matsubara. "I had no idea what Wellspring was all about. So, I got some brochures and I started reading; and I thought it was a fantastic idea. I decided to make a print of this place and give Ann an artist's proof and give the rest of the edition to go on sale (with proceeds going to Wellspring)." Matsubara says she visited the site many times, following the building's progression from a skeleton to a fin ished exterior. When she began the woodcut, the front door o f the 10-room house was a few feet up from a dirt lot. "I thought, with my artist's imagi nation, they were going to make lots of steps and flower beds. And I started to make the w oodcut," M atsubara explains. "I already gave the print to Ann. Then I went to the opening (of Wellspring) and was shocked...I told them my (rendering) was different. And they said, `Yours is better.'" Now the woodcut artist, whose cur rent project is creating a mural for the YMCA addition, refers to Wellspring as a new landmark in North Oakville with its welcoming porch at the front and artificial lake in the back. "It has a great future. And so many people come here to help and to be helped," she says, adding that she hopes people will support the informa tion centre by buying one of her 70plus woodcut prints of Wellspring, priced at $500 each, that she has donat ed. "It will remind them o f someone they know who had cancer and has been helped or, with that print, they can remember someone who is already gone." Wellspring is inviting the public to an open house tomorrow (Thursday), from 3 to 7:30 p.m., to view Matsub ara's woodcut and all the other original art that is now hanging in the twostorey white house. Joyce Kellock and her husband, Ed Boyer, both Oakville artists, were but ton-holed by Mulvale to solicit original art work for Wellspring before the facility was even built. And now that its doors are open to the public, their work is done. "We asked artists, and they were all very willing to donate something. There is a wonderful wallhanging or two, and one was donated in memory a volunteer's husband," says Kellock, adding that the interior decorators also selected some artwork to match the decor. "The artists were absolutely won derful," agrees Judi Perry Brinkert, executive director of W ellspring, adding that 18 paintings now hang in the large house at 2545 Sixth Line. Although that may seem scant for a 10-room house, Brinkert explains that some of the walls were purposely left unadorned. "We had to leave some wall space blank because we want to be putting up acknowledgements to people who have donated a lot of money to the centre. And we wanted to be able to expand our amount of information corkboards up on the walls, because a lot of what we do is provide information." Along with the information, Wellspring currently offers 31 different pro grams to its over 320 members. Wellspring is open Mondays to Fri days from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with plans to open Saturdays when necessary. For more information on the centre, its programs, tomorrow's open house, or the purchase of a Matsubara woodcut print, call 905-257-1988. * Photo by B rent Foster Naoko Matsubara has donated one of two artist's proofs of Wellspring to Mayor Ann Mulvale and the second one to Wellspring itself (seen in the background). Wellspring, an organization that provides support for people with cancer and those who care for them, is inviting the public to see its framed woodcut, along with 17 other original works of art, at its open house tomorrow from 3 to 7:30 p.m. The paintings are hanging in the 10-room house at 2545 Sixth Line. Woodcut prints of Wellspring will be sold for $500 each to raise money for the support centre. 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