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C2 - The Oakville Beaver, W ednesday O cto b e r 17, 2001 Collage of creativity and collectibles at craft sale From fine art to Christmas crafts By Carol Baldw in ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR rene M ottadelli was a precocious child, accepting her father's challenge to copy a portrait of a girl that hung on their wall. And to his surprise, she did it. And she did it well. "He was astonished at how much it looked like the portrait," she recalls. "When I was very young, I was always colouring or copying from comic books and from paintings that hung in the Thouse." " That was years ago. And although Mottadelli never stopped drawing, her full-time career as an artist didn't begin until she retired from her first career - journalism. "I took journalism at Carleton (University). I did a lot of copy writing. I worked for the Win nipeg Free Press. Then I went overseas and worked in copy there, in London," she says, not ing that writing and painting are creative comple ments. "Writing is a pictorial medium if it's done right, fictional writing especially. The senses are kind o f melding together." So, when the Oakville artist returned to Cana da and married another journalist, she continued to write and paint. Her published works then began to expand to include plays, radio dramas and short stories, and her home was always deco rated with her own colourful paintings and draw ings. Then, after her third child was bom, Mottadel li decided to take evening painting classes at a local high school, which encouraged her to take some private lessons as well. "Then I went to the Art Student's League in New York City and that went pretty well. They made me a life member," she says, adding that she also began having solo shows at the Robertson Gallery in Ottawa. After what she calls a chaotic divorce and a subsequent remarriage, she moved to the Toronto area, and ultimately to Oakville. Mottadelli continues to work in pastels, which was the medium of that first portrait that she copied back in her childhood, as well as in water colours, oils and acrylics. But whatever the medi um, she works in bold, bright colours because, I she says, a pale palette would not reflect her per sonality. "And I was trained by two master colourists," she explains. "And I went to New York and stud ied abstract expressionism. Those are all con ducive to charged paintings, I think." Those charged paintings portray everything from birds, fish and flowers to portraits and native art. The former "comes from growing up with gardens in England and studying romantic w riters...It brings us closer to nature and a love of the planet," she says, adding that she thinks artists have a duty to "tell the truth about what's going on." Mottadelli also believes that the time has come for contemporary artists to abandon post-war abstracts, which she refers to as "heads in the gut ter a rt.. .We have had enough abstraction to last us 6,000 years," she explains. "W hen it gets into pure abstract, then we get aw ay...from one another." Mottadelli's paintings can be found in the Illuminary Gallery at 80 Spadina Rd., Toronto and, closer to home, at the Outreach Art and Heir looms, Collectibles and Craft Sale at St. John's United Church, 262 Randall St., this Friday and Saturday - Oct. 19 and 20. At the craft sale this weekend, Mottadelli will feature mostly watercolours, 21" x 29" with, per haps, a few images in metallic printmaking "metallics behind transparent prints." Outreach Craft Sale More than 50 other artisans and vendors will join Mottadelli at the 34th annual Outreach Show and Sale, which will include sculptures, jewelry, home accessories, and a number o f craft and Christmas items as well as vintage collectibles. A Cafe will offer a Victorian tea and, on Fri day night only, a lasagna dinner. This popular event will take place from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for seniors and students, and free to children accompanied by adults. All proceeds will go to community outreach projects locally and abroad. Outreach has sup ported Oakville Big Sisters, Burlington Breast Cancer Support Services, VON Alzheim er's Ser vices, the Women's Centre, Sleeping Children Around the World, victims o f the ice storm in Quebec and the American Red Cross's Rescue Relief Fund. Photos by Riziero Vertolli Irene Mottadelli, above, will be showing and selling her work, seen here, along with over 50 other artists and craftspeople at the Outreach Art and Heirlooms, Collectibles and Craft Sale at St. John's United Church this Friday and Saturday. All proceeds from the admission fees will go to support community out reach projects locally and abroad. The show will be held from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday in the church at 262 Randall St. fr y a c ^ , 'f a v r x . -fe y v & ££ United W ay of Oakville Proudly P re sen ts Carousej ° W A T ___ N H YOUR WINE NOW SO ITS AGED TO PERFECTION FOR CHRISTMASI \ The last start date to have beer or wine re a d yT o rw in s im a sisra s ia p p ro a c n in g . 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