Sales soar for innovative work of

Jacques Rivard,

-IERE SOME péo-
ple see only gar-
bage, glass artist
‘ Jacques Rivard sees a poten-
tial treasure trove:

“Vancouver is a mecca for
garbage,” declares the Quebec-
born artist, whose grand

-candelabras, chic wine glasses and
Stratified icy goblets have been =~
crafted out of empty pop bottles _
and broken ketchup containers he
fishes out of the local dump.

With sales soaring and his objets
_d’art gracing the shelves of craft
‘galleries across the country, one -

could say that Rivard's refuse has
ascended from the depths of the
dumpster to the pinnacle of the
arts and crafts world,

And like his inspiration that -

-” arose literally overnight, success

has come quickly.

Aftera successful business craf-
ting illuminated lamps and custom
trophies for Quebec corporations,
* Rivard decided he had to break
“the mold he was in.

“YJacques’ lamps and one-of-
-ta-kind trophies were a big hit; they
- were really popular. But they. had

a lifetime,”’ interjects Rivard's.

partner, West Vancouver print-.

°) maker Sa Boothroyd. «

2, “Wewere at a- hamburger joint
“and saw a bunch a pop bottles ly-

~ ing near‘a machine, and he said,

. Vhave to make something out of
these.’ 0.
“He bought them for seven
“cents each and by the next marn-
ing he’d made a Viking-style
goblet. Three days later I-was go-
ing to an art exhibit in New York
and he came along with his bot-
tles, 7
We bought a blow torch and
he worked all night in our hotel

ATTENTION A

Sa Boothroyd

Evelyn Jacob
SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

‘room. He dumped the glass into
the toilet to cool the glass off and
glued all the pieces together.

“At 6 a.m. he put them out in
the sun to dry, and in two days
he'd sold everything.’

Always on the lookout for glass
of any shape and size, it's not
unusual to find Rivard scouring
Vancouver's alleys in search of
discarded bottles bars and restau-
rants toss into their recycling bins.

“Jacques gets on his bike with
a large stick that has a clamp on
the end of it and picks up all sorts
of bottles. You could-live’a year off
of the glass restaurants throw out,”’.
laughs Boothroyd.

{f Rivard’s methods can be said
to be on the cutting edge, and his

work the result of the concrete

detritus of society, Boothroyd’s
zinc etchings spring upward from
a breezy, ethereal imagination:
simple, primitive, humorous,
whimsical.

Her subjects are like stick peo-
ple on acid. In Toasting the
Queen, for instance, a frazzled
Queen Elizabeth Il (you would be
too if you'd just been popped out
of a toaster) pops out of a kitchen
toaster with her “royal purse’’
and crown flying off in the

See Rivard's page 29

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Bucket of balls $4.25
Club Rental $1.00

Lessons available with
CPGA Professionals ..

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.N- VANCOUVER 985-6815