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USING A straight-nib Kohinoor pen, Fred Tharnton Hollingsworth

builds up an image from fine lines of ink. The respected architect’:

is having ; a public showing. of his sketches and watercotors.

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Hollingsworth is a

purist. It shows through
in everything he does. .

As an architect, and a pioneer. of
the West Coast style, he has stayed
true to the principles of organic archi-
tecture.

And as an artist, he doesn’t like to
mix mediums. He'll sketch in ink,
But never watercolors in the: field,
Even when he was piloting his own
plane, a Cessna 182 that he has since
sold, he would sketch out a scene and
label it with colors. He would then
return to his home studio to plan out
the composition and recreate the
image in color.

“| like to watercolor in the studio
where [have control over the medi-
um," he explains. Watercolor is a very
controlled: medium; that’s part of
what: intrigues. me I, like the tech-

snique, .the feeling that Iican do this.

under control.”

“I guess | approach everything i in

life that way; you can’t really get out

of your training, can you?” remarks -
Hollingsworth, when told that contro! .
appears to be a recurrent theme in his : °

work and his life. There is the con-
trolled skill of model airplane build-
ing, a craft that earned Hollingsworth
two national championship titles
when lie was a teen.

-* The “controlled - precision. with:

which he penned ‘the technical draw-
ings for pilot's maintenance manuals
while head illustrator at Bo¢ing dur-

ing.the war.-years.:The controlled |
‘lines of his post and beam home, the
first he designed and the one that won -

him ‘a ‘position with the prestigious
architecture “firm —

“Thompson, -

Layne

Christensen

: spotlight

feature.
“and a sketch of Peppi's“and the old™

Berwicke and Pratt in the late "40s,

- The short, controlled strokes of pen

on paper. that characterize his. ink
drawings.

And the elear and controlled
blocks of pigment that are his water-
colors. 1

. For Hollingsworth, who is ‘best
known for. his. architecture, art has

“always been a part of his fife.

Pye always drawn and- painted,
he says. “It’s always been kind of nat-
ural and easy for me to draw.”

© Thougi: he works-at his craft and .
his hobby on the same custom-built -

drafting table at home in the Capilano

Highlands, . the two are never con:

fused.

“Painting isn’t work to me; it’s .

relaxation. Architecture can really be
work, and often ts.” he notes, .

Now semi-retired, Hollingsworth
works on architectural commissions
at home in his glass-fronted studio.

In the evenings, the detailed plans °

Hollingsworth may be preparing fora

mansion in Seattle or an estate on the ~ \

UBC’ Endowment Lands are ‘Swept

; likes it, fine,”

NV architect Fred Thornton Hollingsworth |

aside and the artist emerges to work

itt leisure on a sketch or watercolor.
Favorite subjects are views from

the cockpit: a.sunset near Redding,

_ the quilt work of farmer’s fields out-

side Sacramento, the Gulf Islands sil-
houetted against a stormy sky... -
Sometimes: his sketches are like
holiday snapshots: :the serpentine
coastline of Big Sur, the palm trees of
Hawaii, the graiu ‘elevators of. the
Prairies or the rooftops of Toronto. .
Still others are local scenes: a.
sketch of .Decp Cove's: Panorama
Market, 10 watercolors’ that record
the changes in light off. Point Grey,

Teacup. Inn’ that West Vancouver. ’
District has reproduced for the cover ‘
of ifs annual report. -

His lines are clean, his: shapes :

- clear and his philosophy about his art

just as straightforward.

~ “1 paint.for the fun‘and the’ enjoys:
ment of the medium. Then if anybody:
he says with _ pragma;

aE ‘they ‘don’ 1 i's unot my pre -
_ fem, he adds good-naturedly, » :

Hollingsworth will put this to the
test when he takes his private pastime
public next week, when an exhibition
of 30 of his ink drawings and water-
colors ‘opens: at West Vancouver's”
Ferry: Building «Gallery. “A: ‘public
reception ‘on . Tuesday, June 27. is

expected to. draw Hoollingsworth’s:

friends ‘and: colleagues ‘who: include
art-world heavies Jack ‘Shadbolt and :
Gordon Smith. |

Does: this eave’ the’ ‘normally »
unflappable : Hollingsworth with a
hint of concern?» .
“If: you're not concemed, you ‘re.
_ losing control. ”

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