PAGE 12, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3-) 1978, WHITBY FRE E PRESS T exture is -a Irîa Ketola, whose works Whitby A of, ' are on exhibition at the from Ma, NuýW US THE lIME TO RE BROKEN WINDOW OR SCREEN FOR FASTR AS EFFICIENT EAR AT COMPETITIVE PRICE, THE COMPLETE HARDWAI IrDOMINION HARDU TQWNOF Wl- SPRING CLEAN-UP CAMP, MAY 15TH TO 19TH 19 1. Brush, hedging, tree branches, and o material wilI be picked up during the Week only. The material must flot be cul 2½/ feet in length and securely bundled and longer material WILL NOT BE PI, 2. Household furniture, applicances, c, resulting from the cleaning up of the g MINOR household repairs, domestie such as paper, rags, cartons, packing c will be picked up: 3. Collection will be limited to a combir MORE THAN 6 RECEPTACLES OR dwelling unit in addition'to the normal 4. Each bundie or receptacle to haye a NOT MORE THAN 50 POUNDS. 5. The special collections apply only to d' DO NOT INCLUDE COMMERCIAL AN] PREMISES. Your co-operation is requested in havini EARLY on your regular collection day. R. A. Kuwahara, P. Eng., Director of Public Works. ( * 4 * 0 e O O e O e O O e q O e q e q e e e e e e e A ~UA!JK ~A~mWIUM .#'N.. feature of local Arts -Station Gallery experirnental artist who ay 5 to May 2 8 is an turned away from the tradi- tional approach to art early IPAIR THAT I inher schooling. th Ontario College of Art in 1971, Roy Ascot, a man who » started -.sometbing , f a X v revolution against tradition- alism, was principal. "He caused me Vo question Jeverything," -says Ms Ketola, and since that time she bas been experimenting in many different ways with S TRY various media. Mr. Ascot brough a lot of RE STO0RE instructors, with "far out ideas" Vo the collège, she said, and although he was - eventually fired, the ex- MA R E perimental art department bie developed, remains. Mrs. Ketola has lived in Oshawa since 1975, and'has just completed a move to IITBY Ajax has a close association with Whitby Arts having taught children's art classes in drawing, painting and film amking at the Station since 1976. This month she is having ber first one-woman show at the gallery, although it is not 'AIGN the first time her works have 978 been shown in Whitby. She exbibited at the mem- bers' Juried Show at the Dther similar type Whitby Station G'allery in Spring Clean-Up 1977, ýand the same year her it any longer than works wer in an exhibition at J. Loose material the Whitby Municipal Build- ICKED UP. ing, organized by the Station Gallery. .lotbing, rubbish, "You don't have Vo use a grounds, or from traditional approach," says waste materials Mrs. ketola. "You don't have cases and bottles Vo use a traditional ap- proach," says Mrs. Ketola. "You can experiment with a ined total of NOT, media Vo quite an extent, if BUNDLES per you allow the media, Vo speak collection. Vo you."' Mrs. Ketola has used such igross weight of techniques' as squeezing canvas, until it forms the texture of bark on a tree. She [welling units and ews stitches into wrinkles ID INDUSTRIAL and creases in a folded canvas, s0 that it appears like the. stones in a patio. tg ail garbage out With hier, texture is very important to her art. A lot of Mrs. Ketola's work has a three dimensional effect. She produces her own rust from steel wool for coating canvasses, and >~ ~ - works over the rust with gel (an acrylic media). e O ICI CREAM4 STORE 370 Brock St. S. Sofeway Centre e 668-3231 ANMOUNCES Their New Summer Hours Daily lOum -1l Pm Treat mom on Her Special Day to her favourite Ice Cream Dessert or Cake. 0 ORDER SOON te «m ure.y pIck-e. Gift Certificates Available O ts, SAKiN.00*00 B **ego*AN Police report A 28-year-old man has been cbarged with danger- ous use of firearms after a sbooting spree in bis house last Wednesday when he wounded himself in the foot, police said. Charged is Dave Cusiar of 215 Palace Street. Police said a 12-gauge shotgun was used Vo fire several shots into the walls of the'house, but there were no shots fired at police. The accused was treated at the Oshawa General Hos- pital for a wound in the foot, after he was found sitting calmly on a chesterfield when police arrived. Neigh- bours reported the shots Vo police. Durham Regional Police are investigating a suspect- ed case of dog-napping in Whitby. On April 29, police said Walter Malinowski of 919 Byron Street North reported that bis 14-year-old tri-cobor beagle bad been stolen.' The saine day, police re- port the rear door of the resÎdence et William R. Townsoei 1M8 Giffard Street wmas fareed and a cagette player valued at $150 to $M0 wua atoei. artist s exhibition -May 5 to 28 She has also experimented with burning sheets of~ canvas, one layer on top of another, and burning sheets on snow Vo obtain a pattern. "I have experimented with, alI kindsof things, 1 she says. "Wrinkles and folds fasci- na te me. One of my pieces is called Wrinkles and Folds. Immortalized. " She explains bow she created one work by writing the alphabets of several languages, and mathemati- cal formulas on a canvas, and folded it and put it in storage for about a year. When she unfolded it, she like the folds and wrinkles in it after washing it, and she sewed stitches over all the wrinkles witb a sewing macbine before metalizing the canvas with layers of gesso, acrylic house paint and aluminum paint. "Metal impresses you as a lasting thing," says Mrs. Ketola. Some of Mrs. Ketola's works have taken a long thme Vo produce, because of con- stant experimentation until she has found something that satisfies her. The official opening of "Metamorphasis" will be from 2 p.m. Vo 5 p.m. May 7. The public is invited Vo at- tend and meet Mrs. Ketola at this time. These happy members of the Meals Without Wheels senior citizens club spent three weeks making this distinctively Canadian Maple Leaf Quilt. From left. Vo right are: Turdy Hachie, Phyllis Cinnomon, Isobel Cammack, Effie Freek, Bernadette Webb, Millie Hopley, lia Newton, Lillie king, hellen Wragg and Susan Puckrin. Members who alos participated in making the quiît but were absent when this picture was taken are: Alice Peddie, Reta Glover, Lois Sleightholm, .May Killens and Bessie Acton. The quilt will be'raffled at the club's birthday party june 30 at the Knights of Columbus hall, on Brock Street Nortb. Tickets are available by calling Mrs. Cinnamon at 668-8064. Free Press Photo GOT A WEED PROBLEM? SAY HELLO TO US........... ...... AND SAY GOODBYE, 683 a 9589 mmmmm um mm»mmmmm $1WOFF ON WEED SPRAYING WITH THIS COUPON I $13.50For a5ox 1 W LotI TuH-E MAPLE LEAF FOREVER THE WEED MAN Irja Ketola, an artist who experiments with texture in her works, points out the patterns on "Suddenly Changed, 1 a work that won the best painting award at the City Hall in Toronto in 1976. She described this work as a "sewn metalized canvas." Behind her is another work, entitled "Rust and Tbythm," for which Mrs. Ketoal made her own rust solution from steel wool. Free Press Photo