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THE NORTH Shore can boast of some big names in the arts, sports and entertainment. Bryan Adams and Karen Magnussen: are but two who are known everywhere. And there will soon be another: Charles van Sandwyk, the artist; of Deep Cove, when he’s not going native in places like Fiji.

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NORTH VAW CITY

Displaced tenants may get help

TENANTS DISPLACED when their buildings are demolished to make way for higher cost housing may soon be able to turn to North Vancouver City Council for help.

becoming increasingly conscious of,’ he said.

Ald. Stella Jo Dean said the developer should aid the city social planner in helping tenants in finding new housing. And ‘‘the burden of the cost should be with the developer,’’ said Dean.

Last month Cressey Development Corporation of- fered to find new housing for tenants of the St. Alice Hotel during its presentation to council.

Morris said a policy to relocate low cost housing tenants exists in some areas of Vancouver.

Council is in the process of developing a policy which aids tenants in finding low to medium-cost housing prior to the demolition of their suites.

“*We didn’t use to have a system to deal with this,’’ said Ald. Frank Morris. ‘‘(It’s a problem) we're

48 YEARS OLD

You may cock an eyebrow at my taking time off from punching pol- iticians, etc., to venture into more pleasant realms. But great merit deserves mention, and in young Mr. van Sandwyk I think genius can be detected: or certainly an outstanding talent.

Charles has already made a con- siderable mark. He specializes in birds and landscapes, earns his liv- ing at painting and etching, and has never worked for anyone else.

ARTIST Charles van Sandwyk .-“Words can’t do his work justice.””

Think about that. How many in the arts can say they had already made it at 22 years of age? Ernest Hemingway was still a newspaper scribbler at that age, and most painters ars stil! painting their ex- pectations.

While still at Capilano College he won the $5,000 Alcan Award in the 1986 National College Arts competition. That was for his ‘‘A Selection Of Neighborly Birds,"’ which featured West Coast bird- life. ‘here were over 4,000 entries in the contest, and in making the choice they did, the judges couldn’t have been kidding. The originals are displayed in Alcan’s Montreal headquarters. Later, copies of the limited edition of the book of those paintings sold to the National Library of Canada and to the University of Washington.

He doesn’t look like an artist,

and we all know how artists are supposed to look, don’t we! He could be a computer programmer or a bank clerk. (Which reminds me that Gaugin once spent time in a bank, so I'd better shut up about that.) Like many artists, though, van Sandwyk has an affection for the South Seas, and returned in August from a !10-month stay in one of the remoter islands in Fiji.

Did I say he went native? That's what the photographs indicate, anyway, for there is Charles wear- ing a “‘sulu,”’ living in a thatched hut that Fijian friends built for him, swimming in shark-infested waters and diving down 60 feet without air tanks for fish. The Fi- jians, he explains, go down 80 feet, but they’ve been doing it since they were kids. (He says the sharks are not dangerous there, but I don’t believe him.)

Charles came here in 1977 from South Africa with his parents, both of whom live in Deep Cove, where he attended Seycove Sec- ondary. His father is a graphic ar- tist and ‘‘does fabulous wood car- vings.”’ In South Africa, his mother was a teacher who built ponds to attract birds, and the lad grew up in an artistic milieu, wat- ching those feathered friends.

And fiiends they are. The robin is ‘‘a serious poet and a fine musi- cian,’’ and that’s the way he looks in one of Charles’s paintings, which is a bit like a Wind In The Willows creation. But he seems to love parrots most, has studied those birds in Fiji, Bali, Java and Australia, and plans to put out a book of parrot paintings that will sell for $1,000

‘Their faces are quite ugly, real- ly,”’ he states, Beauty in ugliness. Absolutely. I know of a large van Sandwyk parrot painting that could dominate any room. One can’t stop staring at it. It’s dif- ferent, you see, because Charles paints for “character and life, rather than for anatomical real- ism.”

Words can’t do his work justice. You have to see it. Which you can do at the van Sandwyk exhibition — of paintings, etchings and sculpture at Tigers Gallery, 2133 South Granville. It opened yester- day and continues until Dec. 7; from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily@

Charity hockey game set

WEST VANCOUVER Police will be taking on North Shore realtors in 2 charity hockey game, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. at the West Vancouver Recreation Centre.

All proceeds from ticket sales to the game will be donated to the

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Tickets cost $1 cach and are available at the door.

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