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Paper, to form a collage.

The total effect. is
arresting — one is unable to
, walk through the hall in
“ Lion’s Gate Hospital where
the pieces thang without
stopping to look. They are
‘the work of 65-year-old artist
Maria George of North
Vancouver, who visits the
-hospital three times a week
“to. receive: therapy for
multiple sclerosis.

The. ‘idea of making her .

after arriving home from the :
hospital ‘one ‘day. “The first
ar. I -was there, I did an

awful: lot sf Sketching, ” she

THE FIGURES are composed of sensitive, clever
lines that seem to exude a special life of their own.
Looking closely, you can see that the detailed
drawings of patients, doctors and therapists are

“learning
“never <stop drawing from:

chery work exhibited i in vom

have been pasted on

as a. staff artist for
newspapers in New Orleans

“and San Francisco, an ad

agency, and various private
firms, and has done free
lance layout, illustration and
fashion art for various.
newspaper fashion editors.
George has also taught

commercial art at three
California colleges.
Recently, she took life

--drawing classes in West
Vancouver. “You never:stop
you should

life,” explained.George.

Occasionally she sells. her affected my hands. At one~

pieces, and George has had

paintings are’ ‘on: Sigtee a

hand atne was’ , bad. ‘But

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CHAMBERLAIN

technique in Hawaii, of all
places.

“We lived in Hawaii for a
year — I learned the Chinese
painting there, I think at a
YMCA class,” said George.
The painting is done on rice
paper, and special brushes
made of bamboo are used.

In 1966 George was
diagnosed as having multiple
sclerosis, a chronic diséase
that affects the brain: and
spinal cord, and has a

seriously disabling effect. 7

Although she is confined toa
wheelchair, George said that
the disease‘hasn’t hampered
her painting and drawing:
“Fortunately, it hasn't

point; * “temporarily, they

quite weak. My.

has

Lion's Gate Hospital, as well.
as. her . collages. ‘George’
learned the Chinese painting

“George “painting.”
-drawing once: a week at the
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“in the United States. She has
a diverse ‘Career
, background, and has worked

“MARIA GEORGE
» demonstrates: her artistic
~- talent as she’ draws
...collages with pen and Ink
- on the walls of Lions Gate |
Hospital. Other paintings
she has done include
Chinese paintings which
are also hung up for
display at the hospital.

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