24 ~ Wednesday, December 23, 1992 - North Share News

NEWS photo Terry Peters
DEEP COVE painter Charles yan Sandwyck has found his prom-

ised land on a tiny, two-kilometre-fong South Seas island.

Finding paradise

NV artist Charles van Sandwyck

SK A Vancouverite to
name one constant

A thing about their city

and the response is nearly
unanimous: the rain.

The grey, drizzly West Coast
days may keep the forests lush and
the grass emerald green, but not
everybody wants to grow up with
webbed feet.

So Deep Cove painter Charles
van Sandwyck chase to create a
paradise of another feather: asa
native of South Africa and lover of
the tropics, his plumage of
choice included pelicans, parrots
and macaws.

The dazzling colors of these ex-
otic birds fill van Sandwyck’s
paintings when he is enveloped in
the Cove's drizzly grey.

He liked his vision of paradise so
tauch that he looked for the
open-air equivalent and found it,
so that fike a latter-day Gauguin,
he now lives six months of each
year in the South Seas on a tiny,
two-kilometre-long Fijian island.

Evelyn Jacob
SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

There, van Sandwyck has built
his awa thatched bungaloo on the
beach and fashioned 2 make-shift
tub which sits perched outside his
back door.

He draws water from a well and
grows his own tapioca, yams, tree
spinach, eggplant and bananas.

Rarely has he reason to venture
far from this self-made Eden, pop-
ulation 30, except to return home

“once a year to sell his beautifully

See Presented page 28

IF YOU'RE heading down to
your local LDB outlet to take

on fuel for the holiday
blowout, take some food
with you.

No. not melba toast and Brie —
things like canned or packaged
soup mixes, canned fruit and
vegetables, rice, pasta, juice and
hot and cold cereals.

Doesn't sound like party fare? {t
isn't. These items are urgently
needed by local food banks and
for the Yisst time B.C. Liquor
Distribution Branch stores are act-
ing as donation depots this holiday
season.

infant supplies such as diapers,
baby food and formula would also
be weicome.

While you're looking for some-
thing to wash dawn the reindeer
pate, remember that for the price

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of one less bottle of liquor or

“special occasion’ wine you
could feed a whole family
Christmas dinner and more.

So pass on the Chambertin, get a
cheap jug a’ fun and spend the
difference on a donation to the
food bank.

You may find you enjoy the
wine and the inevitable TV re-run
of A Christmas Carol a fot more
this year.

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