Buckland Southerst
Gallery: Showing by artists
Don Farrell, Britton M.
Francis, Richard Meliarmid,
Rita Monaco and Andrea
Padovani. Yo Oct. 29.
Intormation: 922-1915.
Ferry Building Gallery: Tie
Const. Paintings of the B.C.
coast by Mark Wilkinson,
wooden sculptures by Mitra
Davarpanah and West Coast
scenes by Ivor Cohen.
Gallery hours: noon-6 p.m.,
Tue-Fri. Closed Mondays.
Information: 925-7266.
First Street Gallery:
Dreamings. Austraiian
Aboriginal art. Intormation:
986-2664.

North Vancouver District
Halt: Judy Prendergast.
Works in a variety of media
including watercolour,
acrylics, pastels, coloured
pencil and ink. Jack Plessser
creates high-fired functional
stoneware and percelain
items. To Oct. 28. Exhibits
are a program of the N.V.
Community Arts Council and
open Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m.-
4:30

North Vancouver Museum
and Archives: A community
history exhibit featuring dis--
plays on the North Shore’s
first non-indigenous commu-
nity. Liuns Gate Bridge. A
photographic display that
fooks back 69 years. Shipyard
Snapshots: Cover to Cover. An
exhibit of the illustrated cov-
ers of the Wallace
Shipbuilder. Information:
987-5618. Museum open
Tue-Sun noon to 5 p.m.
PGE Railway Ssation:
Prince George Eventually. Len
Norris cartoons of the PGE
and BC Rail systems. Mon-

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Lansdale (987-5618).
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Ron Andrews recCentre:
Greek Momenis, Sketches and
watercolours of Greece by
Dennis Badgely. Wooden and
seramic sculpture by Graham
Eagle. To Oct. 17.

Seymour Art Gallery:
Capilane Art. Acrylic paint-
inus, cedar sereens and care-

ings by Frank Baker. To Oct.

24, Hours: Tue-Sun, noon tea
4 p.m. closed Mondays.
Information: 924-1378.

Sitk Purse Arts Centre:
Places and Things We Enjoy.
Lise and Ellis Bravham pre-
sent their latest watercolour

paintings. To Oct. 16. Hours:

noon to 5 p.m., Tue-Sun.
Torrefazione Italia:
Exhibition of works by Vjeko
Sager. To Oct. 31. 1860
Marine Dr., West Van.
West Vancouver Memorial
Library: A Family Affair.
Rick Yzerman and daughters,
Karri Brueckner, Charly
Mithrush, Kristi Yzerman
showcase their watercolours,
mono prints, lino cuts and
collages. To Oct. 31,
West Vancouver Museum
and Archives: Generations:
Five Decades of Art in West
Vancouver 1912-1962. To
Dec. 18. Gallery hours: Tuc-
Sat, noon-4:30 p.m. Archives
open Tue and Wed only,
noon-4:30 p.m. Information:
925-7295.
Inuit Gallery: Exhibition of
stone scultpures by North
Shore artist Lyle Wilson. Oct.
9-29. Opening reception,
Oct. 9, 2-5 p.m., 345 Water
St., Vancouver.

Capilano Coilege Arbutus
Studio Theatre: The
Children’s Hour. A play
about the repercussions of
allegations. Oct. 8-9, at 8

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Printmaker featured in &e

BETTY and Alistair Bell moved to West
Vancouver iui the early 1940s.

They were very active in the community and were friends
with many of the artists living here. Betty Bell worked in oil
paints, preterring to paint landscapes and still-tifes that were
influcnced by carly 20th century French artists such as
Cezanne.

Unfortunately, Betty Bell destroyed almose all of her can-

vases in the 1970s. She felt that her work was nor progress:
ing and that she had nothing more to say artistically.
Although Berty Bell gave up painting, she remained active
in the arts community and was a vital volunteer and teacher.

In addition to volunteering to teach Saturday art classes
at Gleneagles elementary school, Betty Bell was also the
longtime secretary of the B.C. Society of “Artists, As a. mem-
ber of the Vancouver Art Gallery women's auxiliary, she was
one of the volunteers who helped to establish and run the
Vancouver Art Gallery Shop.

Alistair Bell did not become a full-time artist until 1967.
Prior to this time, he pursued his artistic interests on
evenings and weekends. Some time during the 1940s, B.C.
Binning. realized that Alistair Bell had more interest and
potential as a printmaker than he had, and gave Alistair his
own set of wood engraving tools. This was the start of an
illustrious carcer.

Alistair Bell eventually became one of Canada’s outstand-
ing printmakers in etching, wood engraving and woodblock
prints. The Art Gallery of Victoria has a collection of prints
eveated by Alistair Bell up to 1982, and recentiy the Bau-Xi
Gallery produced a comprehensive catalogue of all the prints
he created in his career. A selection of Alistair Bell’s wood-
blocks is on display at the West Vancouver Museum and
Archives as part of the exhibition Generations. These pro-

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BOATS were a favourite subject for Alistair Bell, who
completed the woodcut Boats by the Dyke in 1992.

vide a fascinating look at the working process of the leading _
woodcut artist in Western Canada.

Betty and Alistair Bell are two of the artists featured in
Generations, a new exhibit presented by the West Vancouver
Museum and Archives, 690 17th St. In conjunction with
this exhibit, Alan Bell, son of the artists, will be at the musc-
um on Oct. 9 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. to speak on the _
work of his parents and their contemporaries in West
Vancouver. This is a free program. Please call 925- 7298 for
more information.

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p.m. $5. Box Office: 990-
7810.
Capilano College
Performing Arts Theatre:
Robinson Crusoe. Adventure
classic for the whole family
retold with actors and pup-
pets. Oct. 9, at 2 p.m.
$8/S6. Box Office: 990-
7810.
Deep Cove Shaw Theatre:
The Affeerions of May.
Comedy by leading Canadian
laywright Norm Foster. Oct.
15-30 (Wed-Sat), at 8 p.m.
510/58. Reservations: 929-
3200.

Head, Guts and Soundbone
Dance. Drama by Michael
Cook. Oct. 8-9, at & p.m.
§12/S10. Box Office: 990-
3474.

Windsor School: The Soldier
Dreams. Tempest in a Teacup
presents Daniel MacIvor's
award-winning drama about
family relationships. To Oct.
16 (Wed-Sun), at 8 p.m.
Tickets at the door. $10/58.
Information: 731-6478.
Firehall Arts Centre:

comedy about the lives of
middle-aged women. To Oct.
24 (Tue-Sat), at 8 p.m.
Matinees Saturdays at 2 p.m.
and Sundays at 4 p.m.
Tickets: 689-0926.

Frederic Wood Theatre: Life
Without Instruction. True lite
revenge drama. To Oct. 9, at
7:30 p.m. Tickets: 822-2678.
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