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VISU al Through Ancient Eyes Rocks I Have Known by Heather Fisher Exploring Museums Our Past, Your Future This scries is for prospective volunteers interested in working wiih ihe North & Wcsi Vancouver Museums Participate in behind-thc-scc ncs explorations and insightful talks by leading mutcum people The $10 fee includes IwnRdd trip* February 7 & 9.14 A 16. al 1-4 pm at tncLuca* Center North Shore Continuing LJUL.ILH.II ion Housi Gallery, Twelve North Shore Artists. At the time, it was a gallery designated lor all the visual arts, and I recall being delighted with (he hanging space and the quality of light flooding into the gallery A few years later. I participated in a second show there, and then very shortly afterward, the mandate of the gallery changed to photo-based art. It wasn't until recently--with the opening of the Seymour An Gallery at the Deep Cove Cultural Centre and then the easing of jurying restrictions at (lie Fern Building-- that North Vancouver artists could exhibit There are rocks who stand alone, like the their work in a public. North Shore space. Crab and the Ancient One. and others who nestle with each other or other bits of their I have been very involved with art and world, like the rocks entwined in the roots artists on the North Shore since the early of a tree even after ihe tree has fallen over 70s. Together with a group of friends. I'd and died (Roots). There arc rocks who go to life-drawing sessions once a week in show their strong character as I pass. the old City Meat Market in the 100-block Mother Rock was such a rock, both hard of Lonsdale. There were many artist and soft. (Forgive me for mentioning her studios in the area at that time (one of twice, but she was one of the first rocks I which was even used by Joni Mitchell, who would also drop in to the life-drawing sessions from lime to time), and H was a great meeting place for artists. In the space important bit with me once, and hope thai of one year, I had two sell-out shows at the I've received their gift--and got the right Barroco Gallery on Lower Lonsdale. 1 was photograph!) also pan of the group of first students to take printmaking at Capilano College under Yes, I photograph rocks, not any old rock, Wayne Eastcott's great tutelage. but rocks that stand out lo me as they go My latest work, on display at the Seymour Art Gallery, is an attempt to sec with the eyes of the ancient artists of India. I wish particularly lo honour their ability to portray the cosmic dance of life in its sensual and spiritual aspects. The figures on the canvases portray a heightened awareness of their own beauty and sensuality as metaphors of the beauty and sensuality of all life. They suggest that in the union of the polarized beings a spiritual awakening takes place which results in the birth of the God Man and the God Woman. My figures emerge from the textured and hunushed surfaces of the canvases like the old temple carvings come to life. As well as the works on canvas, there are abstract works on paper describing the inner aspect of a spiritual search. I developed this theme in my work during a month-long retreat in the Okanagan. My exercise was to face a blank piece of paper each day with an empty mind and no concepts, ideas or reference (o the outside world. The resulting rush of paintings pushed me into another aspcel of myself as artist, and this body of work is a resull of about their business. Some may beckon to me to share a peaceful moment with them; others paticnth enjoy the challenge they have offered me to capture their essence. The form of a rock, its texture, its strength, its peacefulness, its relation to its buddies, its character; all these qualities draw me. I walk about, often in the Lynn Valley park system, and also on trips; my old. manual 35mm camera with me and good rockhopping sneakers on my feet, looking, relaxing, and soon, some rock, or a large rock surface, or a cluster of rocks catches my eye. Then I pause, crouch, hop a few Call 926-9254 or 987-SM* for more into Arts Access Advertising Rates April 1. June 1. August I. October I. December 1. Ads arc accepted camera-read | or can be designed by this magazine for a nominal fee. For more information, or for a copy of our Advertising Rates brochure tali I Arts Access at 984-9537. Inside Magazine Colour available only al extra charge Full Box 2 1/2" x 14" $200 Half Box 2 1/2" x 7" $125 Third Box 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" $75 Full Page 9 1/2" x 15 1/2" $650 Half Page 9 1/2" x 7 3/4" $350 Quarter Page 4 3/4" x 7 3/4" $250 PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE GST FOR SALE OR RENT 18 N E W A R T I S T L I V E / W O R K S T U D I O S Heather Fisher In es in L\ nn I alley I In · Whale Rock, Walrus, Crab, Ancient One, Mother Rock, Ripple and Twin Falls will all be on display at the Ferry Budding. January 25th to February 6th. THE GRANITE BLOCK NEW CONSTRUCTION: O C C U P A N C Y : SEPTEMBER »4 6 4 0 - 8 2 0 S Q FT. S117,900-S172,»00 Patricia Johnston has lived on the North Shore for 25 years. Hershow, Through Ancient Eyes, continues at the Seymour Art Gallery until February 13th. JOHN MASON | A J O I N T VENTURE BETWEEN J E M M D E V E L O P M E N T S INC. * PACIFIC M A R I N E C O R P O R A T I O N