32 — Wednesday, April 9, 1997 — North Shore News

Putting a spin
on abstract art

By Layne Christensen
Community Reporter
ABSTRACT art is toc

Instead of taking offence,

Arnston shrugs it off.
si . upside down...
ential quality is there:

abstract a concept for .

many art-lovers.

But for the artist, it can
be therapeutic — an expres-
sion of mood and feeling,
and an expioration of color,
form, and movement.

West Van artist-architect
Carole Arnston paints what
gallery owners have coined
“easy-living” abstracts.

“You don’t have to have a,
Masters in Fine Art to appre-
ciate my work,” says Arnston,
whose works are currently on
display ar the Ferry Building
Gallery, in a joint show with
porter Lewis Ki

Painted in t s
abstract expressionist style,
her works are “abstract” yer
recognizable.

A landscape is quite obvi-
ously a landscape. A waterfall
is instantly recognizable as
just that — except when the
canvas is hung on its side.
Then it’s a wind-swept
scashore, as one art buyer
preferred it to be.

y happy.” she S.
Wates. whether it washes up
on a avashore or cascades
down the side of a mountain,
is scill warer.

Arnston likes to talk about

visual literacy — how viewers

inti — and

y to interpret a

work is within all of us.

Children are especially adept
at reading a painting.

dren have a natural
curiosity,” say
iris, “and don’t hesitate

mind.” Adults,
on the other hand, dons want
to be wrong, when in’ fact
there is no wrong answer.
Arnston deliberately leaves
her work, open to interpreta-
tion. The goal is tor the
viewer to make a connection.
If that happens when the
work's hung upside down,
then that’s OK
artist.
“As long as it’s not hung
backwards, I don't mind.”
— layvne@usnews.com

save the mother of

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

WHEN it comes to abstract art, seeing is in the eye of the beholder, says Carole Arnston, who shows her paint-

ings alongside Lewis Krzyczkowski’s pottery, at the Ferry Suiiding Gallery. Krzyezkowski agrees:

important that people see what ! see. The intent is for them to make their interpretations their own.”

‘tt. isn’t:

North Shore banks
counted on by kids

EACH year at this time employees of the Bank of
Montreal, CIBC, Canada Trust, Hongkong Bank,
Royal Bank Financial Group, ScotiaBank and TD
Bank across the province set aside their business
competition for a greater cause — helping kids
who need B.C.’s Children’s Hospital (BCCH).

“Since the Children’s Miracle Network ‘Felethon began in
B.C. back in 1988, financial institutions have raised over $2 mil-
lion for Children’s Hospital,” states BCCH Foundation chair-
man Larry Van Hatten. “This support bas enabled the hospital
to buy life-saving, state-of-the art equipment like incubators
and blood ‘warmers for the Special Care Nursery, and a kidney
dialysis machine for the Renal Unit. It has also furided research
and educational projects, and community outreach programs
like the Cardiolugy Clinic in Penticton.”

Why do bank employees of these institutions in North
Vancouver feel such a strong affinity to Children’s Hospital?

It’s because they understand thar the hospital is a truly
provincial erganization, that couches every community in B.C.
In fact, in 1996 there were 5,471 patient visits from North
Vancouver alone.

Financial institutions’ employees understand better than
most the importance of a sound investment. Each of these orga-
nizations have made an investment in our province’s most pre-
cious resource... our children,

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