{"id":3762,"date":"2013-09-04T16:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T20:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2013-09-11T18:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T22:40:33","slug":"soak-up-local-colour-in-aurora-at-weekend-art-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/soak-up-local-colour-in-aurora-at-weekend-art-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Soak up \u201cLocal Colour\u201d in Aurora at weekend art show"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

First impressions are very important. <\/p>\n

For some, it is the make or break of what can be the beginnings of a beautiful friendship. For painters and sculptors it can be the all-important first step in creating a new masterpiece. <\/p>\n

These tentative steps lay the \u201clocal colour\u201d of any work and this weekend, Aurora artists invite you to soak it up in your own back yard with the inaugural \u201cLocal Colour\u201d art tour.<\/p>\n

Local Colour is a new group, bringing together eleven artists from Aurora and the surrounding area to show off their creative streak in a local setting. The group is an off-shoot of art classes led by artist Judy Sherman in her Temperance Street home-cum-studio. <\/p>\n

\u201cRather than students, we\u2019re a group of people who are painting at the studio,\u201d said Ms. Sherman as sun beat down on her the deck overlooking where Saturday\u2019s tour will take place \u2013 both indoors and out. \u201cWe decided to start this group to help promote local artists in the community. Everybody is local, so why don\u2019t we try and promote the local artists in town?\u201d<\/p>\n

The majority of the artists participating in Local Colour are current or former students of Ms. Sherman. As they conversed in the garden last week, each one had a different suggestion of what \u201cLocal Colour\u201d meant to them. For some, it represented the beginning of a painting. For others, it was a sense of history. Some suggested it symbolizes each colourful person\u2019s own identity. <\/p>\n

As each suggestion was thrown out, it seemed each one was a reluctant artist who eventually found biting the bullet and picking up a brush, chisel, or lathe as a way to find and express themselves. The work on display has been selected by the artists themselves to illustrate their artistic journeys.
\n\u201cJudy and [artist] Eva [Folks] have always done as much as they can to support all of us in our art,\u201d said Cathy Fairs, who will be showing some of her still life work. For her, finding art was a positive outlet, and one she hopes will be reflected in her paintings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first time, I came home and said, \u2018I feel like I have just had a two hour holiday. To concentrate on something and work a something and ignore everything else that has been happening that day, or that month, is a wonderful thing and very therapeutic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drawing and painting is something Helen Simpson always wanted to do as well. She travelled extensively and found inspiration wherever she went, but actually sitting down and putting brush or pencil to canvas or paper was something she never before had the chance to do. <\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought I was an artist, really,\u201d says Ms. Simpson, who focuses on nature, houses, and farm scenes. \u201cIt has really been a wonderful experience for me and it is a very spiritual thing. When I am here, I am taken out of myself and I don\u2019t know how it happens. It is something you can\u2019t explain.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the people sitting around this impromptu roundtable, no explanations are needed. Each speaks of how they have been drawn out of themselves through their art. Majella Power said through the art classes, she has found the confidence as well to consider herself an artist rather than a student, often focusing on a nautical theme in her work. Art has also prompted Chris Barfitt to channel her love of nature through her art to others, encouraging them to recognize a \u201cspiritual energy\u201d in the world around them. <\/p>\n

Mike Sheridan, on the other hand, works with wood, creating detailed sculptures of birds. Before coming to the studio, that is as far as things went. His work with a brush was limited to house painting and fences. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn a very short time, I am happy with what I am doing,\u201d he says of what he has learned. \u201cIt is self-satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adds Ms. Sherman: \u201cMy belief is to help people achieve what they want to achieve, not for anybody to do what I do, or what somebody else does. It\u2019s to help people achieve their goals and encourage their styles to be the best they can be.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why I think this group is so unique because the quality of the work is really good and everyone\u2019s style is different, so you have a variety of work. It\u2019s very eclectic and there is something for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local Colour gets underway on Saturday, September 7 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 89 Temperance Street inside the studio and, weather permitting, in the garden. A public preview of the show will also take place on Friday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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