Wednesday, September 13, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER B7 A R TS & ENTERTAINMENT cts artist' s two passions By Carol Baldwin ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Joyce Davies is a woman of colour, which has nothing to do with her skin but rather refers to her art and her life. Colour has wooed the 70-year-old Oakville artist since her "Crayola" days as a child, when she readily accepted its flamboyant attraction. And it has been a faithful suitor, remaining with her throughout her creative career, which has included dancing with the Royal Winnipeg Bal let, painting, sculpting and now quilting. Her life has also reflected that penchant for colour as she and her musician husband traveled the world, stopping to live in Britain, Sweden, Canada and the U. S. An artistic blend of her dancing and her trav eling is apparent in her colourful quilt, titled Caribana. This quilt is prominently featured on the first page of Rubicon Publishing's Weaving New Rhythms Diary, 2001, accompanied by a poem about dancing and music - a perfect poet ry partner for a former dancer's quilt, which she says, "was my response to the Caribana parade." That response was sketched with textiles and thread into a 35 1/2 by 39 inch quilt that not only reflects the expressive dancing of Caribana Photo by Christine Smyth Joyce Davies' Caribana quilt will be part of the Weaving participants, but animates the dancers with a vibrancy that only someone who loves dance and colour could do. "For some reason I don't think my eyes work well with pastels or black," quips Davies. Her quilt of many colours and many dancers can be seen and even purchased for $450 at the Weaving New Rhythms exhibition in the M cLaren-Bames Gallery from Sept. 17th to 30th. Other artists featured in the Weaving New Rhythms Diary, 2001 will also have fibre art in this unique exhibition, and many of those artists will be at the opening reception on Sunday, Sept. 17th from 1 to 4 p.m. in the soon-to-bedemolished gallery at 133 Reynolds St. Also, as part of the Oakville Festival for Fibre Arts, some of Davies' other quilts will be on view in the Omnium Gatherum exhibition in the Abbozzo Gallery, 179 Lakeshore Rd. E., from Sept. 22nd to Oct. 8th, along with the fibre art of other members of the Oakville Fibre Alliance (OFA). j Davies joined the OFA to share ideas with other textile artists and perhaps try some of the other textile disciplines. And the quilt artist con tinues to enjoy the camaraderie and the free flow o f ideas that the OFA has to offer. She also enjoys being part of the collective (See `Enjoys' on page B5) C h ristie festival o f ART & CRAFTS · Spectacular Fall show! Juried artisans from across Ontario selling high quality hand made crafts and original art · Be entertained! Live music, children' s entertainment, demonstrations by talented artists · Enjoy! The park's natural beauty, picnic areas, trails, lakeside New Rhythms exhibition. Discussion on Icelight art exhibit A round-table discussion with Icelight curators Su Ditta and Peggy Gale will be featured on Friday, Sept. 15th at 3 p.m. in Oakville Gal leries at Gairloch Gardens. The discus sion will be gen erated by a close look at the exhi bition Icelight, which brings together a com prehensive selec tion o f original video tapes pro duced by Igloolik Isum a Pro ductions and Amait Ikkajurtigiit (the W omen's Video Workshop). Ditta is an independent curator, critic and writer, who was executive director of the Canadian Images Film and Video Festival in Peter borough for five years, and curat ed film and video at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa from 1987 to 1990. Peggy Gale is an independent curator who is currently the curator of the visual arts sec tion o f the Bien nale de Montreal 2000. In 1990, she was a m em ber o f the cura torial group for the first Biennale of the Moving Image at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, M useo Nacional de Arte M odem o in Madrid, and in 1994, she was curator and on screen host for Video A rt Video, a 10-program series by Canadian-artists, for TVO. Icelight clos es Sept. 17th, at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore Rd. E. The gallery is open 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays to Sundays. Adm is sion is free. Oakville Place September 23 & 24 Under huge festival tents / 10 am-5 pm daily Admission $5.00 / Free parking on site Children 12 and under free. No pets please Now Independently Owned & Operated! 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