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Art trust honors Smith

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development « of Vancouver.

Bertram Charles Binning
studied at the Vancouver
School of Arcs (now the Emily
Carr Institute of Art and
Design) where he later taught
and, this year, was awarded a
posthumous honorary doctor-
ate.

It is appropriate then that
his drawing and watercolors be.

- on display in the school’s
Charles H. Scott Gallery.

The show brings together 50
of the artist’s drawings and
watercolors from the collection
of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

All were produced between the years °38
and *46. have as their subject the life
and lan of West Vancouver, where

IN a Charles van Sandwyk painting, animals express emotions with a charisma
that the human element cannot match.

£ach work colored by hand

rE A Q Son press in his cottage’s
. 7 A cramped studio, hand-pulling

WEST Van artist Bobbie Burgers’ Pasture
fetched $2,500 at auction.

District’s Artists for Kids Trust, which
collects significant artworks as a teaching
resource and publishes original prints tc

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his widow Jessie, now 92, still resides. The
show continues through Nov. 30.
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Ir’s a banner year for West Van painter
Gordon Smith, who is currently enjoying
a 50-year retrospective of his work at the
Vancouver Art Gallery.

On Oct. 24, the 78-year-old artist was
recognized for his commitment and dedi-
cation to North Vancouver School

raise funds for its programs.

As a founding patron to the trust,
Smith has been instrumental to its success
in bringing many of Canada’s leading
contemporary artists on board, says man-
aging director Bili MacDonald.

The trust’s extensive permanent col-
lection of Canadian art has been renamed
the Gordon Smith Teaching Collection of
Canadian Art.

lamps, mahogany treasure
chests and magic carpets —
and family heirlooms like his
grandfather’ 's pocket watch, a
Requent mofif in his etchings
watercolors of birds and
painstakingly
exquisitely

animals, all
detailed and
framed.

Life is full of surprises.

He paints birds that
behave like humans, iguanas
that carry pocket watches.

“My animals always like to
make fun of time and really
it’s of no value,” says the
artist, who is always on time.

The destruction that mired
his island home is not reflect-
ed in his work. He paints only

the etchings at the rate of six
to an hour. Each is painstak-
ingly colored by hand. His
frames match the intricacy of
his work. Hand-gilded in 22-
karat gold and ourchased at
auction, they cas casily cost as
much as the sw: they encase.
Life is heing tre te yourself.
“All my life, evecvycne was try-
ing to change. what I was
doing,” he says.

“You can’t paint birds with
clothes on,” his detractors
would say. After completing
a graphic arts program at
Capilano College he tasted
three weeks in the profes-
sion. So he returned to his
fine art.

“When you retire from work or you ask
people on their deathbed ‘what is it you would
have liked to have done more,’ no one ever
says that they wished they had worked more or
that they were on time.”

Life is art.

gentle scenes. “I like to paint things in a gold-
¢ moment,” he says. His pleasure is “to take
something soft and gentle and put it out into
this cruel world.”

Life is a test of will.

He cranks out his prints on an 1870 Keltons

. . photo Terry Powe
BILL MacDonald (right) con igratulates Gordon Smith during his announcement of
the renaming of the Artists For Kide Trust’s permanent collection of Canadian art,
now known as the Grodon Smith Teaching Collection of Canadian Ait. —

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