22 — North Shore News - Friday, suty 14, 2000

NEWS photo Paul McGrath
DAMIAN George sits at Cates Park beach, the home of his ancestors. His work for

Visions of the North Shore is an interpretation of the park.

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DAMIAN GEORGE — CATES PARK

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easy on the eyes

Deborah Tuyttens
Contributing Writer

STALASTON’S (Damian George),
earliest memory of artwork is watch-
ing his grandfather Chief Dan
George carve medallions out of fir
bark.

Damian, armed with a pad of paper and a
pencil, would sit and
draw by his grandfa-
ther’s side for hours.

Damian George is a

member of the Tsleil-Waututh (Burrard)
First Nation in the Deep Cove area and is
one of the 12 artists working on the Visions
of the North Shore Millennium Project.

George grew up in the Tsleil-Waututh
ar<a and although has no formal art school
t.aining has spent many years training in the
traditional Tslei!-Waututh way by watching
and listening to elders and other artists. He
always took art in school and then in Grade
10 his work really changed when he attended
the Eslha7an Learning Centre, where for the
first time he was exposed to other forms of
First Nation Art. George has over 22 years
of experience as a Coast Salish carver and
artist and over the years has donated many
designs and prints to various First Nation’s
organizations and individuals for fundraising
events and sacred ceremonies.

Of the 12 North Shore sites that are
being celebrated as part of Visions of the
North Shore Millennium Project, George’s
work centres on interpreting Cates Park. He
has lived on the North Shore his whole fife
and is familiar with all the sites but this one
has special meaning for him. Damian spent
approximately chree weeks at the park Jook-

ing for artifacts as part of a project when a
picnic bench installation at the park uncov-
ered a burial site. Almost 200 band members
were interviewed as part of the Project and
George recalls that Cates Park *... was a
summer gathering place for clams, crabs,
muscles, sea urchins and a lot of deer hunt-
ing went on there, there was a deer

right through Cates Park. [The food] was
taken back to Belcarra Park where our main

village was. It was an important village to
our people”.

Cates Park was established in 1951 at
Roache Point, on land donated by the Cates
family in memory of Captain and Mrs.
Charles H. Cates, founders of the Cates
Towing Company. The point itself was
named for Lieutenant Richard Roche, RN,
of the HAS Satellite, which voyaged up and
down the B.C. coast in the 1859s.

When talking about his artwork George
reflects “like any piece I have ever done, [
want it to be easy on the eyes, to make (peo-
ple) feel the way I feel when you look at it.
None of my art has a squared edge, none of
it has a sharp corner or a straight line. Each
line has a real slight bend, so it’s easy on the
cyes. It makes people feel " peaceful, because I
think that’s what I feel at Cates Park.”

— George’s print along with the other
Visions of the North Shore Artists is part of
Reflections of Place.: worth Skore Inspirations
at the West Vancouver Museum G& Archives
July 1— Dec. 16 and will be on display at other
North Shore venues in the upcomeng year.
Deborah Tuyttens is curator af West Vancouver
Museum & Archives.

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