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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1995-10-25, Page 15.11 r1:11 (t /t; iJ 1 p ;►:� y 1:.� 4'41, Local artists hold first studio tour Brenda Burke T A staff membership. "We want a variety of styles." GRANTON - Bright signs decorated with Goodale's studio near Granton contains wa- • tercolor paintings with titles such as "A lot of 'Sunset. Behind Cook's Farm, Grass people are shy Sculpture and October Storm. of going into "The lighting and the mood that studios... mother nature supplies - that's We want them where I find my inspiration," she to see what said while exhibiting her work from were doing, the studio she's had for the past year and a half. "It's very important to capture...an instant in time...a feel - balloons appeared near Granton, Lu - can and St. Marys on Oct. 14 and 15, pointing the way to studios of five local artists. Chapter 5, Association of Artists, which was formed in September, held Discovery '95, its first studio tour. "A lot of people are shy of going into studios...We want them to see what we're doing," said Artist Annette Goodale, adding the group is hoping to expand its The studio walls of printmaker Alan Dhingra in St. Marys are adorned with various sizes of prints that exude an African quality and often follow a theme of the human form, with a special emphasis on couples and pregnancy. His prints consist of dark and contrasting colors and have titles such as three's a Crowd, Under the Sea and Dance of Love. Some of his work displays large faces, colorful ab- stracts and mixed media techniques including sew- ing and wax painting, which involves beeswax, par- affin or crayons. Beginning his artistic endeavors with screen - printing in high school, he continued to the Ontario College of Art to study art and printmaking and is now teaching small groups in his studio that opened last August. Dhingra would like to move from his current nur- turing themes to explore abstract, dynamic prints. ,Ilan I)11i11gra for me ing." Although much of her work includes landscapes and floras, she is also drawn to the detail of pen and ink works, which are more time-consuming than watercolors when she uses pointillism, a tech- nique that involves applying small dots to canvas so they appear, at a distance, to blend together. An average 8x10 ink picture done in such a style may easily take 50 hours to com- plete. "I've always drawn or painted," said Goo- dale. 11111('11(' nnlale Renee Knight A step into Renee Knight's stu- dio near St. Marys reveals a me- nagerie enagerie of various subjects finished in colored pencil and watercolors. "Shadow and composition are really the most vital components to me," said Knight," explaining such a philosophy leads her to unusual subject matter at times, much of which is found in her own backyard, including the nature and animals that surround her. Wheelbarrow, Milking Time and Just Ducky are titles of some works hung on the walls of Knight's gallery. "I really enjoy nature and that comes through," said the graphic artist who has been painting since she was a child. From a piece displaying the swollen utter of a goat, which won a Best of Show award in 1993 at Gallery Stratford, to her favorite image of a carton of eggs named Craters, her sense of humor and eye for detail are revealed through her work. One of Knight s larger colored pencil pictures takes three to four months to complete while watercolor pieces of the same size take just a few days to finish. She prefers to do much of her work during the winter and show dur- ing the summer. Knight has been painting and penciling full-time for six years now, and opened ago. She is now working on a colored pencil drawing of a wild turkey feather. Barbara Beach her home gallery three years At her home on the outskirts of Lucan, Barbara Beach displays her custom-made art furniture which acts as a canvas for her original acrylic landscapes and designs, much of it appearing in pastel colors on white dressers and tables. "It was something I wanted to do as a business right away," said Beach, who began enhancing older furniture a year ago. " "Painted furniture's kind of becoming the 'in' thing," she said, explaining although it's popular in the United States and in larger Canadian cities, such art is gradually gaining recognition in Southwestern Ontario. Beach usually begins her work with an older piece of furniture that is of- ten defected or damaged. After repairing, stripping, sanding and priming the wood, she begins to paint, often conjuring up ideas before she gets to this stage. "Certain pieces suggest certain things," she said, pointing out the differ- ence between a dresser done in a natural finish with a small barn swallow on its front and a white dresser front covered with a frosty landscape that extends over its handles. "I like doing different things. There's really no end to what you can do with furniture," she said, adding beach scenes as well as brightly -colored whimsical figures for children's furniture are antoi her many ideas. It takes Beach two to three weeks to finish a scene on a large dresser and just a few hours to do smaller projects, such as a design on a washboard. She plans to concentrate on her watercolor and oil paintings this winter. 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