Village Squire, 1976-09, Page 7works for the new book. There was no
stipulation on what the works were to be
about except that there were to he seven
drawings, one to introduce each of the
litergical seasons.
Friend and fellow artist Bev Katzin
suggested that she use hands as symbols for
the seasons and after thinking about the idea
for a while Jo agreed. The decision was really
made when Ms. Katzin also provided the
hands, or at least the owner of the hands who
agreed to model. He was Reg Schultz, a Blyth
area farmer and friend of Ms Katzin and
husband Ron Walker whose workworn hands
seemed to fill the bill. Jo said Mr. Schultz has
"the most beautiful hands, strongly formed,
deeply -lined, obviously work -worn but
sensitive too."
Jo took pictures of the hands in various
poses: held out in supplication in Advent,
holding a baby (they substituted a pillow) for
Christmas, in a praying position for Ordinary
Time between Christmas and Lent; holding
back thorn branches to symbolize the 40 days
in the wilderness; carrying a beam which
could be the Cross; pulling back the stone
from the tomb for Easter (they used the cover
of his portable cooler) and digging to
symbolize the work of the last Ordinary time.
Photographs, Jo said at the time, were poor
substitutes for the real thing but her training
in the technique of the masters came out
Using her knowledge of anatomy, of bone
structure and muscles, she was able to bring
the flat photographs to a new dimension. It
took three months from the time the drawings
were commissioned until they were complet-
ed.
After wiping into the indentations in the plate,
The reception for her work for the book was
very favourable. The work of all 20 artists was
praised in a book review in the Ottawa Citizen
but the highest praise was saved for Jo's
drawings:
"But the gentlest, yet most moving
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Jo puts the plate on the press.
statement is made by Toronto artist Jo
Manning. She has compiled a series of seven
pencil drawings of rough, toilworn hands
which represent in their simplicity the
liturgical seasons...".
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