HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-10-12, Page 7Paintingto tell
story of firm...
not decorate
BY JEFF SEDDON
His canvas is steel
siding, the top of his
painting is about 20 feet
off the ground and his
work tells the story of
what goes on inside the
building, the front wall of
which he is working on.
Rob Ruth`erd has
been working six weeks
painting the Gearco story
on the front wall of the
firm's new building in
Goderich's Industrial'
Park. He says his work is
not intended to be so
much "decorative" as it
is "real and explicit".
Rutherford__ w.as
commissioned by the
firm to paint a mural on
the building to give
motorists travelling
Highway 21 south of
Goderich a good idea of
what goes on inside the
plant. He was not told
what to do but rather
given a tour of the plant
and asked to put his
conception of what
happens "there into a
painting.
"I was impressed with
the size and scope of the
firm and the fact it was
Canadian," said
Rutherford of West
Petpeswick, Nova Scotia.
"That's why I came here.
I liked what they 'were
• doing. If there were more
• Canadian companies like
this I'm sure the
Canadian dollar wouldn't
be where it is on the
foreign exchange."
Rutherford tries not to
confine his work. He says
he moved to the tiny
ocean side village to take
advantage of the scenic
beauty that could easily
be transferred to can-
vass, and to get away
from crowded art
markets in Toronto and
Montreal. He says
Halifax 'is the centre of
Maai•itime Market
and _
that the ' mcuarket there,
while smaller than major
Canadian cities, can be
lucrative.
His productions include
car .._ ..and truck
customizing, van pain-
ting, paintings for
framing and sketches. He
is in the process of
preparing work for a
large art show a year
down the road but' felt he
could afford the time
away from home to do the
Gearco job.
Originally from
Toronto, Rutherford has
relatives in Owen Sound
and thus was familiar
with the Goderich area.
He said he is- a friend of
Gearco vice president
Mike Sully and when his
friend asked him to do the
work he accepted.
He really didn't know
what he was going to
produce when he arrived
in Goderich. He said hL�
saw the wall when he
drove to Gearco to start
the job bnt really didn't
have any idea what he,
was going to produce.
"I took a tour of the
company and then
walked to the road and
looked at the wall and the
idea came to me," ,,he
recalled. "I recalled the
machine used to cut the
gears and envisioned it
balanced with a gear in
its three stages of
production."
Rutherford sat behind
the machine sketching it
at work and then faced
the problem of putting the
sketch, which was about
10 inches high, onto a
wall about 25 feet high.
It turned out to be
simple. He merely waited
until after dark, set an
opiascope on the lawn of
the Gearco plant and
projected the sketch onto
the wall tracing the
mural. The system
worked out. Rutherford
managed to get the detail
he was looking for and
made the painting ac-
curate to a scale of 28
times larger than the
..original.......The .....two men...._....
working the gear cutting
machine were a bit of a
problem so Rutherford
merely stood near the
wall and had his co-
worker Kathy Kornelsen
sketch his outline.
The majority of the
painting was done by air
brush to give it the tones
needed for detail.. The
airbrush allowed
R'i t1 erford ' 'to _. give The
gears a steel gray tone
and shadow areas to
make accuracy stand out
from the road.
The final touches have
the artist „in a bit of a
dilemma. He wants to
show the heat treating the
gears get and is not sure
• how to go about it. He
plans to surround the
final gear with the same
gas burners used in the
plant but is concerned
about the colour of the
flame. The furnace flame
is blue but Rutherford
wants his flame sort of
yellow both to offset the
' yellow machine on one
I extremity and to make:it
' clear to the untrained eye
that the colours
surrounding the final
gear are not flashy
borders but are there to
signify the heat treating
process. . w
Rutherford W said the
work was slowed
somewhat ' by lack of
proper equipment and by
poor weather. He said he
figured the job to take
three weeks but it has
taken five weeks to get
three . weeks of good
weather. The air brush he
is using is also a bit small
for the project. It is
designed ,,to touch up
small works and is
dwarfed by the size of the
job for Gearco.
To reduce the effects of
weather Rutherford is
using airplane paint
which is oblivious to rain,
snow and sunshine. The
alumi-grip paint will give
the painting a life that
will probably exceed both
the siding on the wall and
the machine depicted.
"The machine will
probably be obsolete
before the paint wears
down," he said.
One drawback to the
job is working in public
according to Rutherford.
He says he never allows
anyone to see his work
until it is finished but that
was impossible on this
job, People travelling by
Gearco daily watched the
work progress and others
only saw it in its early
stage and probably are
still wondering what the
artist was doing.
"Some people saw it at
an- early stage and majr
never see it again," said
Rutherford.
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Rob Rutherford spent almost a month on a scaffold putting the details on an 18 -
foot mural using this tiny air brush designed for much smaller work.
Rutherford has been working on a mural that depicts the story of Gearco. The
work is on the front wall of the firm's Industrial Park location. (Photo by Jeff
Seddon)
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