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The Citizen, 2001-08-15, Page 20Check out The Citizen's WEBSITE at www.northhuron.on.ca I i t', r 4 goizeiene44 2.R .#1 Bayfield, ON NOM 1G0 Paudisa 4 OPEN Douty-cram - 6 PM Tam Fa FREE RIDE TO AREA SHOPPING AVAILABLE U is > cc fi W or clt a. F., car U. 0 0 GODERiati 346 HURON RD., GODERICH i ,524-9381 or 1.800.338.1134 0 3., • m FREE RIDE TO- AREA SHOPPING AVAILABLE COMPLETE A/C EVALUATION & ESTIMATING HMI/AMU! CALL FOR DETAILS! PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2001. Local artists exhibit at Bainton Gallery to Sept. 15 By Mark Nonkes Citizen staff It's a show all about colour, one that will brighten the walls of the Blyth Festival Art Gallery with them, opening of Real Painting, work by three local artists from Aug. 14 to Sept. 15. Three talented and diverse painters from Auburn and Goderich will showcase their work. Featuring the abstract and bold works of Elfi Enns of the Auburn area, to the soft, watercolour land- scapes of Goderich artist Gwen Smithers-Kiar to Auburn painter Jane Stryker's colourful oil-based world of things which surround her, the show is sure to delight all who view it. Enns has been painting on her farm for years. Although she started painting realistic landscapes she grew tired of them and began paint- ing with "her feelings". When Enns embarks on a painting she has no idea of how it will turn out. One large oil-based painting will be churned out months after starting a painting and it will always be much different than the last. "It always comes as a surprise," Enns said. People often are looking for a meaning in her work but they do not see the painting for what it is really for, Enns said. "It's colour, forms, shapes and space," Enns said from the studio in the upstairs of her country home. Enns has displayed her pieces in Toronto, London, Guelph and sever- al local shows in and around Huron Country. Smithers-Kair tries not to stay at home to paint. She goes out on loca- tion and sits down or she takes a pic- ture and works from that point. Smithers-Kair recalls one after- noon of painting when she sat in the trunk of her car to avoid the wind. She paints on location throughout the year, along the side of the road, in a field or by the lake. She has painted scenes from all over Ontario • and across Canada. Her watercolour landscape pictures are close so reali- ty that the viewer believes they too have experienced the area. The work Smithers-Kair has in the show at .the Blyth Festival Art Gallery is called, For Everything There is a Season, as the paintings will be of the four Canadian seasons. "Both Mother Nature and humans share the same seasons," Smithers- Kair said from her Goderich gallery. Her works have been featured at galleries in Waterloo, Sarnia and Stratford as well as many other local art studios. Smithers-Kair has been painting foi over 35 years and has a studio on Victoria Street in Goderich. Anyone who knows Stryker can tell her some of her some of her favourite things to paint are pigeons, garlic and milkweed. "I'm starting to go off in different directions now, but for the last 10.or 12 months those definitely [were favorites)," Stryker said at her Auburn home, studio and gallery. Her always-colourful paintings are inspired from the world that sur- rounds her. Her husband, John, keeps pigeons on their property in Auburn. The couple grows garlic in their garden. "There's just a sense of beauty and gracesaid of things in nature," Stryker For the art show Stryker will have displayed a number of paintings and some abstract wooden pieces that has been carved with chisels, in the couple's woodworking shop. Stryker has displayed work around Huron County and is well known in the community. Her home and woodworking shop is located along on the north side of County Rd. 25 in Auburn. Inspection Local artist Jane Stryker looks at a painting in the works for the Blyth Festival art gallery show, in which she and two other local artists showcase their work. (Mark Nonkes photo) Blyth Festival invites members to special event, Friday, Aug. 17 THERE'S STILL TIME!!! Perennials & Nursery Stock Can Be Planted Anytime! HUNDREDS TO CHOOSE FROM °Our Perennial Gardens area Must to See as the Blooming Beds are Never the Same" Orders are now being taken for Pickling Cucumbers. NOW READY...Sweet Corn & Field Tomatoes The Blyth Festival continues its Membership Month with an invita- tion to the annual Members Day, Friday, Aug. 17. This event provides the Festival's membership with a chance to enjoy a sneak preview of plays slated for production in future seasons, At 3 p.m. in Blyth Memorial Hall, mem- bers of the 2001 company will pres- ent excerpts from a variety of works in progress. Ted Johns' popular char- acter, Aylmer Clark of He Won't Come In From the Barn, tackles genetically modified organisms and a host of other farming issues in a new piece with the working title, Bamboozled. Associate Artistic Director Eric Coates has been working with singer/songwriter David Archibald on a new musical based on the life of Canada's real life Great Lake pirate, Bill Johnston. A musical excerpt from the script, The Perilous Pirate's Daughter, will be on the programme. Much of Archibald's recent work has centred on the Great Lakes with spe- cial projects commissioned for many Ontario Provincial Parks, including the nearby Pinery and Lake Superior's Pukwasa. Area playwright Paul Ciufo's new script, Reverend Jonah, looks at the challenges of ministering to a shift- ing morality in small town Ontario. His play, On Convoy, was a hit for the Goderich Little Theatre several season's ago. He has continued to work with the Blyth Festival's Artistic Director, Anne Chislett, to hone his craft as a writer. "Members Day has always been an important event for us," said Chislett„"It's a chance for our mem- bers to not only hear the new work in progress, but also to gain a sense of kinship to the Festival's New Play Programme. The arts need more peo- ple like Blyth's members."