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REANNA Evoy’s art will accompany Christmas
greetings all over the world this year.

The eight-year-old Ross
Road Elementary school
student has found herself
under an increasingly bright
glow of art-world limelight

since her winter wonderland
pastel-watercolor was chosen

EIGHT-year-old Reanna Evoy proudly displays her original

in the foreground,

by Kids Kards as one the
company’s 1985 Christmas
cards.

Marketing manager for
the non-profit card company
Pat Payne, says Reanna’s
rendering of children tobog-
ganing and playing in a

snow-bound setting,
backdropped with grey skies,
snow-covered fir trees, and
bemused snowmen, was
chosen from 200. similar
pieces of art included in a
North Vancouver school
district cultural exchange

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

art chosen to be displayed.on Christmas cards, one of which is

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“I picked it out im-
mediately. I thought it was a
fantastic piece coming from
a child of that age.”

Of the approximately
2,000 kindergarten to grade
12 local works of art consid-
ered for the Russian ex-
change, 200 made the final
judging selection as those
representatives of North
Vancouver school art that
would be displayed in
Moscow in June,

Brian Evoy, Reanna’s fa-
ther, says selection of his
daughter’s work as a
Christmas card was a fabu-
lous Christmas surprise for
his family: “It’s not an
everyday thing, you know.’’

But Evoy, a constable
with the West Vancouver
Police, added that if effort
were the only yardstick by
which rewards were bestow-
ed in the art world, his
daughter’s Christmas card
would be recognition jong
overdue.

“‘Reanna does nothing but
craw and doodle. Already, it
is her number one passion.”’

Evoy family pride for
Reanna’s accomplishment
spans three generations.

“Everytime my mother
sees the card in the store, she.
just has to tell whoever is
there that the ‘card . was
drawn by my granddaughter,
you know’,”’ says Brian.

Copies of the card have
subsequently been sent
across the length and
breadth of the Evoy family
tree the world over, ‘‘and
even to people we don’t
know".

Suitably modest about the
painting she says took her
two days to complete,
Reanna assesses it with the
critical eye of a true artist,
“It's good I guess, and it
was my best then, but I’ve
done better since then.”

According to Payne, Kids
Kards raises money in con-
junction with the Canadian
Society for Information
Children and helps to fi-
Rance the organization of
parenting workshops, the
distribution of child
development pamphlets, and
the operation of New
Westminster's special needs
daycare centre; Rainbow
House.

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