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Eventually Banbury was showered with numerous awards for his best fronts — including the Motion Picture Hera} magazine award, the Box Office magazine award and Universal Films award

— but when theatre started to fall off and long nold-overs were elim- inated he dropped his brushes and picked up a set of clubs for a 10- year stint at McCleery Golf Course as a golf pro.

In recent years Basrbury turned to abstract art because he says “there's not much psyche behind

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traditional modern art. 1 dan’t like all the parameters, | like to be a free spirit,” said the self-described Bohemian.

Many of his recent works are about music: ‘‘Rhapsody,”’ “‘In- termezzo” and ‘‘Overture’’ are titles of some of his newer paint- ings. “I like to paint to music and

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people say that the music shows on the canvas.”

Now that he is retired Banbury can afford the luxury of painting for himself — he doesn’t have any commercial worries. He insists that he is not “a painter of inven- tory. | want to paint good stuff — | don’t want to paint junk,” he says.

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life as an artist

One major project is a planned series of all the old fascinating Vancouver characters Banbury hooked up with when painting theatre fronts. “t think that has a place in Vancous er’s histery."” he says. ‘“You shouldn’t take infor- mation like that to the grave without sharing it.”’

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