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Printmaker and painter displays ‘Invitation to the Goddess’ at NEC

MARGARET PARKER
For The Sun

Richard Taylor, a master print-
maker and painter from Johnson's
Landing, present his show “Invi-
station to the Goddess,” at the
‘National exhibition Centre in
‘Castlegar. ‘What this show is
about for me is evoking or invit-
-ing my more feminine side to
‘enter my life and work,” says
‘Thylor.

5 The show consists of about 20
‘works: hanga-traditional wood-

‘block printing; serigraphy-silk.

‘screening; watercolour and
‘acrylic. “Most of my images are
ery conceptually orientated,” he
"says. “But.in recent years I've
‘found new fields of discovery.
“I continue to use landscape as
‘a metaphor for a state of mind,
but I’ve also incorporated a much
larger context that includ

was living in, in terms of land-

scape, land forms, everything,”
he explains, I became more tradi-
tional in that approach. Now I
feel I'm going through another
major change," he adds, referring
to the inner world of dreams and
visions that he now draws for cre-
ative inspiration.

His most recent piece, entitled
“Com Mother” has come out of
several years of work, including

the

iphs.

“Art has always been my form
of expression,” says. Taylor,
“from kindergarten age.”

Although, he explains, he did
go through an age of rebellion. “I
was determined to be wealthy and
an artist’s life was not conducive
to that. I resisted for quite a while
but it came back and gave mean-
ing to my life.”

Taylor's first solo

started trying to make my! living
as an artist, he says, “If you're in
‘a city situation, trying to.pay rent
you can watch the creativity ‘get
boiled right out of you. I realized
I was going to have to create a
garden situation so my art could
come to fruition. That has hap-
_ pened for me, and I guess I feel
" pretty lucky.”,

“ginee his first show “in

corn used by Pueblo Indians.
“From the Oriental point of view,
bamboo is the, spiritual plant,” he

Richard Taylor

ness of colours give the allusion
of deep space.”

Taylor learned the technique in
Tokyo, under the master Toshi
Yoshida and has been specializ-

dreams, visions and fantasies.”
While Taylor employs several
themes and mediums in his work,
he devotes most of his energy to
‘hanga or woodblock printing.
<“Not many people use this
“Japanese technique because it is
‘very labour intensive,” says Tay-
“lor. He can spend one to two
‘months carving a series of wood-

{blocks alone. “The prints have a~

: soft feeling,” he says. ‘The rich-

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ing in dblock printing ever

since, “This marked a major

change in my work,” he says.
‘There have been scveral major

periods in the 21 years of his
artistic career, After graduating
from UCLA in California in
1967, Taylor created larger can-
vases than now, that were’sculp-
tural in form and abstract in
content. When I moved to the
country I became more influ-

says. “We can't grow. bamboo
here, but we can. grow com-and
it’s one of the spiritual plants of
ithe new world.”

‘The work in. “Invitation to the
Goddess” has a magical quality.
Taylor conjures up the outer
forces of nature in his large
acrylic triptych: three, views of
Fry Creck, and the inner forces of
dreams and fantasies i in his small-
a dbl

enced by the ‘that I

‘k prints and. seri-

was in G la City at the Gal-
leria D.S. He spent two years
there working for the American
Service Committee in rural devel-
opment, and he also continued to
paint. He later headed back to the
states where he learned the silk
screening trade, and shortly after ,
in 1971, came to Argentina and
immigrated to Canada.He. built
his home and studio in Johnson’ 8

~ Landing in 1973.

After screen printing for a
number of years he began making

* his living from his serigraphy. “I
‘had my house and a before I

Gi Ia, Taylor has
throughout B.C., and in vanes
and galleries in Vancouver gnd
Calgary market their work,
“Invitation to the Goddess,” at the
NEC is an opportunity for people
from the area to view his art.
“Often I-séll my work in major
cities and local people don't haye
a chance to sce what I’m doing,”
he says, B like to be able to invite
my neighbours and people I know
to mt show.”

“Invitation to the Goddess;
runs concurrently with “Choosirig
Clay,” from July J 18, to August 25,

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In some ways, this year will be
remembered as the summer of
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The festivities begin at 11:30
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more month and next weekend, a
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Kingsmen, and Freddy Cannon.
“Also. part of the weekend are
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To give, or not to give?

Donating to various causes requires good business sense

Donations, Just reading the
word makes business people
cringe. Castlegar retailers say that
an average of three people each
day come through the door, not
looking to purchase goods or ser-
vices but asking the business to
donate cash or goods or services
of one kind or another,

You might think that some of
the people who:are soliciting on
behalf of their group have never,
nor would ever, enter your busi-
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: your customers is rude, And you

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and ‘no’ to others? Their causes
range from sports to health to cul-
ture and from children to teens to

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Choosing to donate to groups
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Set up some criteria to evaluate
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