Painter's new works
in tune with culture

Evelyn Jacob
SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

HE LAST time Wendy

Hamlin showed her

work at the Diane Farris
Gallery, she came away feel-
ing frustrated and disen-
chanted.

Not because the turnout was
poor or because she was dissatis-
fied with the way the exhibit was
curated, Hamlin’s reasons were
far more personal.
“It didn't have an international
language,” the green-eyed,
blonde painter says of the 1991
exhibition that followed an emo-
tional three-year sojourn to
Seville and focused on her assess-
ment of the Spanish Virgin cult,
which, she says, borders on hys-
teria.
“(t was a very personal state-
ment and it didn’t translate well,”
Hamlin reflects over coffee in a
Kitsilano café.
“You had to be part of the cul-
ture to understand what | was
doing. | painted beautiful, crying
Madonnas, some with their NG Oe LM Rak / : ;
shoulders and breasts exposed NEWS photo Mike Waketield
because | saw sensuality and sex- PAINTER WENDY Hamlin is confident galtery-goers will be in
uality — not just the religious tune with her exhibit Telling Stories. She said her last exhibit at
aspects. the Farris Gallery left her fseling frustrated because most view-
“Here, the paintings translated ers did not understand the cultural significance of her works.
Telling Stories opens Saturday at the Diane Farris Gallery in
See Stories page 44 Vancouver.

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