April 26, 1989 VOICGya.“e She and Harald were married in December 1967 school where Harald, who is 15 year Théy met in art older than Ann, was taking a commer cial art course After their marriage, they moved to the Queen Charlotte Islands for two to three years, one of the places Harald 30. years. as an with Department o Anndaught art at a junior worked during. his engineer the Highways high school there When they moved to Victoria, Ann worked at the Provincial Museum. She started out in the exhibits deparunent and was later trasterred to the history department, which she said she liked even better. While in Victoria, she did freelance illustrations for other gover including the nment ministries, children’s line drawings for the Museum train in 1978 and 1979. When her husband was to Revelstoke in 19 move back to Winlaw 9, they decided to They had the house there, which was built as already a vacation home Her interest in art has always been there, Gross said talways drew since twas a tittte kid. My mom said | always had a pencil in my hand. | think I had drawn every tree in Winlaw up into high school.” VALLEY ARTIST... Ann Swanson Gross, Winlaw paint inher gatiery, A Place in the Forest. But the teddy bears also take a lot of work because they have to be textured with toothpicks Gross has a small kiln inher laundry room which she uses for her clay sculp: turing. She works outside with the clay When the weather is pleasant Her sculpturing is comprised mostly of female figures She also sculpts clay faces known as She does wall mask what she calls peacock which are based on Harald. When she did her Mothers and men. Daughters series of paintings, she also did several masks around the same theme. All are handshaped over whatever form she can find. The masks red with oil paint and then they oud of her Mothers a Daughters series, a collection ol paintings, which she did in 1986. displayed at galerie Grand korks. nany women here and a series W Nelson I mee lot are single moms,”’ she explained kvery time | saw a mother and daughterit kind orimspired me.” Gross majored in oils at_art school but sticks tc She watercolors said a painter needs a good workshop in color on one large painting Before her husband retired, Gross would work all night on a painting, spending between 50 to 100 hours ona large painting Since the gallery opened, she said she-hasn’t done nearly_as many pain lings as before In the summer, maybe there will be a day (to the twO\or Three visitors gallery),"* she said She added that most of the gallery Visitors and customers are Albertans. She Place in the Forest, do so after seeing said most people who find her her sign by the highway Most smaller pieces, of the sales in the gallery are ranging from $10 to $20. Gross is probably not as weltknown agreed the key to making herself better doesn’t travel her work as much as others I's more difficult to travel pain tings,”! she said Locally, she has strong support for At Christmas, many of her friends will often buy her sculptures her work for gilts Gross has also had requests for family portraits and has done two por at the Robson Annual Jury exhibit in Vancouver Media Centre's First Show in 1984. She illustrated a children’s book, Dusty, for Solstice Books and ‘con: tinues to draw for local publications, including Images, the Kootenay women’s paper Gross had some of her work on display at the recent grand opening of the Hummingbird Gallery in Nelson along with other local artists Gross had nine new paintings at the show that were done in the past year Ann and Harald have been married for 21 With both- of working and Harald’s job taking him away a lot, they thought it wouldn't be fair to have children They have two cats, Gretchen, 15, and Esmarelda, 16, who periodically years. them pop up in Gross’s paintings. “They are sort of familys" she said When Harald was working away, all | had for a model was me and my cats. People keep saying When the cats die, your paintings will change The price of her paintings start at $400 To $S00.and The large ones average about $1,200. THOSE WERE THE DAYS... The tow! in of Sandon was a busy town in 1987. The glittery Kootenay mining capital was a its peak in 1898 with a population of 5,000. Sandon Hi: Society is trying to preserve what is left of the old town. Provincial Arctuves Photo Society wants heritage protection for Sandon By CHERYL CALDERBANK The Sandon Historical Society is trying to come up with ways of preser- ving the historical area “What were are hoping to do is try and get some kind of heritage site protection Sandon,” president Hal Wright said But Wright stressed that it’s not an attempt to discourage mining activity Part of the attraction of Sandon is for society some of the past and present mining, he said To keep the old townsite intact, the society also hopes to encourage em ployees of Dickenson Mines and people looking for summer homes to locate in Sandon. The enlarge the museum “We are hoping Regional District of Central Kootenay sociéty would also like to to involve the in a plan that will allow all these things with the co-operation of Wright to happen” the provincial government, said “We want to come up with a plan that will protect everybody's efforis and help encourage preservation of these things and ‘encourage par- ticipation,’ he said Wright said many of the buildings are'in the advanced stages of deterioration. The roofs are in need of repair and the foundations are settling “Keeping snow off in the winter isn’t enough,” he said. ‘Structural repairs will have to be done. We want torkeep what's left of the townsite as in- tact as possible,"* which he said will mean raising some money Any work that has been done on the buildings has been done through donations teft in the museum. That amounts to between $2,500 and $3,000 ayear “The problem is a lot of the deterioration has advnaced to the point where that amount won’t sustain them anymore,” Wright said. “That's why we’re hoping to encourage in volvement from private individuals. “We are going to need some en. couragement and participation with local government so they can allow this type of development to happen," Wright added. There is no zoning in Sandon, but the Historical society hopes to get some kind of heritage site protection to keep (Up to We are the people who ... eGive The Best Rebates eHave The Best $1,500) with the heritage theme. “What we would hope is that the society. would be kind of an advisory body to the RDCK to set up some kind of zoning protection. We do have quite a few people who have expressed an in. terest in being involved’ by buying land with or without a building. 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