ArtsceneChinese brush paintingexhibitedin BronteA pair of Oakville artists will be displaying their work in the Chinese brush paint-ing style at a show at the Sovereign House.The art show, titled Chinese Brush Paintings, is part of Art on the Bluffs series put on by the Bronte Historical Society. It opens on Saturday, July 16.The exhibit will show-case works of art by Oakville residents Baoxing Zhang Rand Bernadette Duzyk, who IZIERO VERTOLLI / OAKVILLE BEAVER FILE PHOTOwill also conduct demon-DISTURBER: Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre chair Sybil Rampen and her dog, Sam, are pictured in the historic building during a recent art event.strations on the art form, which people will be able to participate in. The brush Rampen creates haven for heritage and artspainting uses traditional rice paper, inks and oriental By Carlie Oreskovichlong cherished dream. idea. But you have to have the Every six weeks he was in thebrushes.SPECIAL TO THE BEAVERThe Centre is definitely a work incourage to pursue it. And some-hospital with pneumonia, she says.Zhang studied calligra-progress and an ongoing passion for times that comes at a price andIt was a terrible battle keeping himphy with his father and took Sybil Rampen likes to think of Rampen, who is in her 80s. Itagainst the odds.alive. I just loved him so much andprivate art studies in his herself as a disturber. In fact she's would be easy to describe the bliss-Rampen points out she is not I felt guilty that I loved him so native China. About two proud of being that. She was a dis-fully sordid state of the shed that new to struggles. She sees the evo-much and actually he became thedecades ago, he began turber when she went to spend twohad been rapidly deteriorating onlution of her life as being one domi-anchor for the whole family. He's an teaching Chinese painting years in Europe in the early 1950s.the property and follow the three-nated by overcoming hurdles. When amazing person. He is just a won-in Alberta and later moved She was a disturber when she year physical process that wasshe was six, she was hit by a car, derful, intuitive, sensitive person. to Mississauga and contin-encouraged a group of friends to getinvolved in shaping it into the state-seriously injuring her leg. The driv-He's just totally independent. Heued giving art instructions together as The Grannies, thenof-the-art Centre that is there today.er was drunk. Her schooling was was my teacher. in the GTA, which he con-dressing up as bikers, even thoughThat would be like chronicling theinterrupted by scarlet fever andRampen was told to put Ben in tinues to do.they didn't have one hog between transformation of a sooty Cinderella bouts of pneumonia. And her mar-an institution but she refused. Now, Sovereign House is open them. And she is that when sheinto the belle of the ball. Certainlyriage to Leo Rampen, whom sheBen can read and write and workto the public Saturdays, raised her family of five boys, andthere was a contractor, but there met in Europe and became a CBC on computers. He's totally indepen-Sundays and Wednesdays lately she's been a disturber in cre-has to be a wand involved some-producer for the program Mandent now. He mows all the lawns on from 1-4 p.m. The show ating the Joshua Creek Heritage Art where, and Rampen is the one who Alive, brought her a succession of his tractor and is living in a closes on July 27. The venue Centre (The Centre) on wields that wand because, after all,children, six in the span of eight Community Living facility. is located at 7 West River St. Burnhamthorpe Road as a focus for she is a disturber. For her, it is not years. One died and the youngestHer only daughter, however, See Rampen page 40in Bronte.the arts and heritage, fulfilling asufficient that you get an creativehad Down's Syndrome.37 Friday, July 15, 2011 OAKVILLE BEAVER www.insideHALTON.com