WEST VANCOUVER painter and sculptor Vivian Corran mixes paints at her Klee Wyck studio.

Beside her is a recent acrylic on canvas. The local artist has donated one of her paintings to

Endeavor ’90.

Artist donates painting to charity

BEGINNING the week of Nov. 9,
the works of a group of established
Vancouver painters will line the
walls of the Vancouver Art
Gallery.

By Evelyn Jacob
News Reporter

All of these pieces have one thing
in common: they‘re going to be
auctioned off en behaif of
Endeavor ‘90, a society which
raises and distributes funds for 15
different. local artistic, scientific
and health organizations.

One of those contributing artists
is West Vancouver painter Vivian
Corran, whose iyrical abstract
series capture images of Mexico,
the West Coast and the prairies.

Corran has donated a piece from
her most recent Las Paredas series
entitled Vera Cruz.

The Las Paredas series, based on
a 1983 trip, are relatively large
canvases that combine geometric
shapes and architectural struc-
tures. Corran has depicted the
changes both weather and time
have inflicted upon the surface of
typical Mexican buildings: iarge

patches of peeling paint reveal
layers of colors beneath.

Color and color relationships are
of primary interest to Corran. Las
Paredas is executed in blues,
pinks, oranges and purples, repre-
seniing the colors cast upon a city
at sunset.

Corran, who holds an MA in art
education, says she struggled long
and hard against painting the local
North Shore inountains, but finally
created 2 diptych ca/led The End
of the Mountains three years ago.
Rather than using sombre blues
and greys, she employs shocks of
bright yellow and pink to repre-
sent rays of sunlight.

“| resisted doing mountains for
a long time because | always think
of them as solid, imposing, im-
moveable things,”’ she says. ‘To
me, the ray of light is a sign of
hope.”

Her most recent series, Wind,
Snow and Ice, was inspired by a
flight over the prairies. They are
deliberately different from past
work, says Corran, particularly in
the use of color: Whites, soft blues
and pinks convey the feeling of icy
winds blowing over stark land.
Corran has painted the pieces

trom an aerial perspective.

“I remembered this flight. You
could feel the coldness of the
landscape below. It was practically
colorless,’ she says.

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