Rivard’s work very
popular at shows

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distance.

As Boothroyd explains, her in-
troduction to etching happened
‘quite by chance,

“4 was studying in England at
the City and Guilds of London Arts

‘School and when | came back to

Canada | tried to get a job. | went
to Toronto for one week ~ it was

“too hot, my dress stuck tome —

“so l.went to Quebec and got a job ©
assembling children’s toys.”

In other words it was a creative
challenge. Right? Wrong.

"1 put heads on top of pencils
-at the rate of 1,000 an hour,” she
says, re-enacting the glazed look

“of an exhausted assembly- line

“worker.

“"It made me want to do my
-own thing. It was a fluke that got
into a craft show because I didn’t
even havea product.’

It jough her-work tends to ap-
peal:to certain types of people
(there’s Hot Tips for Tea Fiends :
that leads addicts through the
minutiae of tea- making, for exam-:

le Boothroyd tries not to create
prints with specific people i in
mind

‘Peopie ask me if | make. cat
s but | tell them to forget i it. 1.

know Il'can make money; but 1‘:
don’t have a relationship with a
ca Bae

lotting down whatever unusual

oughts Come into her head (she
says she. hates Jifting ideas — -;

y,'the bulk of -

er source material comes to her

while driving around in her' cars:

nspiration may com
ina relaxed atmosphere, the labor
nvolved in’ making thé humor...’
work.in her prints ts intense.
Some of my: ideas don’ te

piece called Traffic Jam which was.
of someone spreading jam‘on toast,
with cars coming out of the j jar.

without thet, it’ might wel be
Lifeless. with | Mikey. :

ilford, Granville, Oakridge, :
“Cequitiam,. Richport, Scott 72 -

it's the same old ‘story. Boy
meets best friend's girl, boy gets
tl boy‘drops girl: The twist here
that Gabe Walker (Sly Stallone)
oes it literally. ‘During a failed .

scue mission, he.lets her down °

none too gently) into a1,000- ::
‘oat-deep gorge. =. ©
Alter a respectable period of
self. -pity and loathing, the rock”
ck is forced to snap back into
action to save his friends from a
team of nefarious no-goodniks led
by Eric Qualen John Lithgow at
his eye-twitching best —er,
_ worst).

Not only does Gabe have to
pick off the ruthless baddies ‘
scrambling to recover $100 million’

rom the dangerous peaks of the -

mountain, he has to cope with a
‘ormer. buddy who hates the help-

ing hand that killed his lover...

“This routine action thriller is’
elped by some great photography: -
f the Italian alps and the almost
on-stop stunts.

Unfortunately the mix of studio

“shots and outdoors footage is as
clumsy as the humor. But who .
goes to these things expecting,

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“Jaborate on ideas but as dissimilar

“(I'm a tea fanatic’’): is quick to

The idea sounded good, but visu-
ally it didn't work at all,

“You have to put your ego in
the garbage to do this. Jacques’
work is less exposing in that way.
Boy is it bad when you try to be
funny and you miss, That's why |
don’t set out to be funny.”’

The pair.work out of separate
studios and don’t normally col-

as their art is, they do show

together at craft fairs.
Boothreyd, who is wearing

eye-catching teapot earrings

admit that of the two, Rivard is the
one who typically leaves with a
thicker wallet, ”

‘Jacques sells more than'me
because he’s more famous than
me,"’ she says matter-of-factly.
“His product is more trendy. |
tend, to sell more to weird Peo- :
ple :

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