~ae 42 ~ Sunday, November 10, 1991 ~ Worth Shore News o LIFESTYLES A couple with a talent for a living WOMEN OF my generation have it all over our men like a tent when it comes to retirement. Very few of us, a miniscule number, have escaped some household indenture, and therefore we fcel responsibility for home management, ever-if reduc- ed. We always know we're need- ed, that we always have something . required of us, which is very ego- strengthening. . Too, we've family respon- sibilities, also of domestic nature, and usually we've been much closer to and more involved in the community. All these simple ties give us an identity, however ordi- nary, still reassuring. Our men, though, have always seen themselves in what they do for a living. Then, when retire- ment is indicated, it’s as though the road in front of them has fall- en into an abyss, and they are looking down into that black hole. What will | do with myself? they wonder. Who will | be? And ‘alot of them slip over. It would be greatly to our ad- vantage to be able to persuade them that there is life after work, even though it no ionger rests on pillars of goods to be sold or to be manufactured or to be auc- tioned off or to be shipped to the Third World. That there is still pleasure and profit without tortes and invoices and inventories and prescriptions . and T-bars and slide rules. How happy we would be to _keep our handsome escorts, our seasoned companions, our knowl- edgeable observers, our friends and lovers, who, of all people, share our memories and under- stand our dismay i a world we never dreamed of. : Sometimes it comes about. No Eleanor Godley THE VINTAGE YEARS big sacrifice, no renunciations, no sweat. Both members of this coupie | know are now out of the formal work-force, both are learning and practising and advancing and both thoroughly enjoy their two distinctly individual exercises. Wrat’s especialiy suitable is that the taient of the one reinforces the talent of the other. She paints watercolors and deals with the landscaping. He looks after the cooking and shopping. She can sit at her easel for as long as it takes to get the exact tone, never having to interrupt the flow to take something out of the oven or put something in, or shop for the purpose. While he is revelling in a new herb or a different loaf or the Perfect salad dressing, she can prune the hedge without worrying about exhausting herseif. Now Margaret Key has ‘ust had her_first solo exhibit. The walls in the Civic Centre Gallery displayed a broad range of her watercolors, from Queen Charlotte totems to SHOP THE FLYERS > wednesday Woolco / Eaton’s / Sears New Factory Carpet / The Bay Lumberland giraffes in Kenya. She has had stuff in juried shows, several times, but this was the first ex- posure without any sort of sup- port. She suffered beforehand with stage-fright, she says, certain no one would be bothered to come, but relaxed when it was held beyond the original schedule, to accommodate the enthusiasm. Her subjects range from the whorly sandstone of Gabriola to studies of poited plants and dolphins frolicking. In some, she shows a distinct femininity, as with the fragile exetic colors in and amongst the giraffes, and with the triptych of potted cyclamen. A favorite subject obviously is the ancient working totems of the north — not those painted and propped up in parks and museums, but the ones that have had an obviously useful local spiritual life for many years. There’s an amusing, antic quali- ty to the Winter Forest, and smali pieces, of sea-horses especially, show that same kind of gaiety. Both mystery and humor color the giraffes, which, sadly, was NSF. Once painstaking elevation of Van- couver as if from the SeaBus is indicative Gf her working years as Christmas Delivery hand-maiden to a= group of engineers. Her formal training began at Banff School of Art, to which she had won a scholarship. She had grown up surrounded by that lux- urious scenery, amid the carefree wealth of visitors from the world, thinking that was the norm, She had a whole year in which to fall in love with paint and brushes, but then bravely put it all aside until her children and her working life both finally let go of her. Ac last it's her chance. She is now wondering how she ever found time to go out to work! She can free her spirit at the draw- ing-board and muscle her way through a tough transplanting job, while the soup’s simmeriag and the bread’s rising. : A lovely cohabitation. Ferry Building offering Vancouver Island art tour THE FERRY Building is offer- ing a tour next Wednesday (Nov. 33) to Vancouver Island to visit the work of B.C.’s most famous artists. The first stop is the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria for a look at its current show of Roland Brener. Then it’s off to the Emily Carr Gallery for a tour of the renowned B.C. artist’s work and ending with a look at the Carr House, where Emily Carr spent her early years. ~ Departure from the Ferry . Building is at 7:15 a.m. Par- - ticipants return at 8 p.m. the- same day. Cost is $36 for adults and $32 for. seniors. Registration is through the West Vancouver Recreation Centre. 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