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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-06-25, Page 11GoDERiG. SI 1"aTA ,ST44i, Wgro.1 171 Y, /M14 25; Noted 4`. havepermanerit ; The marine history of serving with the U.S. this point, he hsted left side. This, the Great ° Lakes has Defense Department for I:II ork explain( )ry chara continuing17 yeasn ,saservicetoing, 'considern 1dians the as pursue his the amongns grP paintininterests in 1974. ial becausehe a smudgeUnyedue largely to the His aintings are of tist boat's artGvrdon. Lightfoot.ships.Some are of der records the combinnevr ations Banother form pf art historicl classics, some at his creation would starboard side. But Clary of colours• that he uses, and its artist are now of boats that are feared look like on canvass, he is comfortable with his and in the event that he being recognized for their lost and some of modern had put about two and a interpretation, not only must retouch a particular expressions of accuracy racing sloop ps what he half years into the because eye -witness spot, say where a horizon Clary, of St. Clair Series. and beauty and James calls the Great, 'Lakes research behind, the accounts. favour his has been blotched, it is Michigan, is riding the Clary'. latest en_ "Like a famous sinking. opinion, but also because less time consuming for wave that he's waited for deavour was also on compares, es, writer," "I couldn't on the starboardosi e, in him to repaint the entire x ' k for years. it horizon in order to ensure I display last week. It is a think of beginning my would naturally surge to the uniformity of colours. Clary, who has devoted painting of the Titanic - work without first theort side, thereby Throughout the art the last six years entirely the unsinkable ship that knowing what the facts causing that lean. show could be heard the P to his painting, was in went down like an anchor were. For example, in the What may seem to be a • the songs and requiems of Goderich on Sunday, on its maiden voyage. Titanic June 22 to display his As ean be expected, important that I, deterit s E:1!t01 material to localitesHe this paintinregrand array of bythabe his best this part g the Titanic's • if he was acquainted with work set up in the parlour effort. It shows the process, because only story, would check for in the` Canadian songwriter, of Bob 'Nephew's Titanic in the middle of then will I know how the artist's in -Clary revealed _that__.h.e_._- Photographic Studio and its sinking.Labout the time many lifeboats to paint—"terpretatini:1 ror Clary "Thad - ----maaygeople-We invited -Thalthe lifeboats werepainted a picture of leaving the ship as ;op Y to attend the show. being lowered. Clary has posed to how many were Jim Clary has been riot yet come to that stage still on it or else being interested in the sea and of the work but it is clear lowered into the water." its boats since he was a that he knows where the The "Titanic" is also child growing up along scene is headed. shaven to have a slight list the Detroit River. After And well he should. At or lean toward the port ensure that his facts were "The Wreck of the correct, he used the 1,100 Edmund Fitzgerald" for page inquiry into the him and, in return, sinking of the boat before received a signed special making his sketches. copy of a Lightfoot The sketches look quite album. similar to the end product James Clary was only except that the lines are ..able to be in town for the crowded by the hundreds one 'day, but his work will of notes he has scribed, be on permanent display, graphic details, of and on sale in Nephew's colours shapes and parlour on Montreal perspectives to be con- Street. There will also be sidered when the canvass an open house of Clary's finally meets the brush. work on Thursday, and According to Clary, tiif he Friday of this week from works from four to six one p.m. to 9 p.m. at the ..~7hours per day, he may be Nephew gallery. This••type of artwork is Harrrr man for everyone. It is neither could tell a few stories e of ships,r ta• ea? for he'ss been mind -boggling nor painting various boats from the past and present lacking in substance, but since childhood. He is James Clary, a noted marine it is revealing and very artist from St. Clair, Michigan, and on Sunday, fascinating. It is Art. • inished the painting in about three months. Such work has also gone into paintings of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down in 1975. The artist has made a table -sized model depicting the floor of Lake Superior where the- Fitzgerald now rests. By using photographic records, Clary molded the lake floor, -placed some scattered debris around the wreck and made a model of the boat which sits peacefully in two chunks. From this model, which is 99 per cent accurate, he has painted over 130 pictures of,'the wreck of the• Ed,tnund Fitzgerald. He said that ,he. keeps "Meg"' of ail'.'"event, whereby he does many paintings of a particular ship. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then one could look at each painting as another James Clary, a well-known marine artist from St. Clair, Michigan, was in town recently displaying his work fro + ' a gallery of Bob Nephew on Montreal Street. This Is a painting of the Tit: just as It was sinking. For a painting of this. calibre, Clary has spent over two years researching every fact about the unsinkable ship, and will spend over three months, working six hours a day, in the actual painting. (Photo by Jason Ainslie) Billy, have bin June 22, he was In port for a display of his work at Nephew's Studio. Many of his paintings, some valued at over $20,000, are still on display in the studio on Montreal Street. (Photo by Jason Ainslie) Vacation prograrn offers comedy workshop Summer Campus, an being funny, �,. we ...,.._. ... _. Summer Campus, an so spend a daily swim are t f° nutrition unusual ever calligraphy. at a nearby site. Some g, facial ex- Y Program. 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