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Color is important and beâ€" fore beginning any piece Mr. Polkinghorne goes through a long process of seâ€" lection. Using a series og’ swatches, he picks out combination and starts rough color sketches: Only when he is fully satisfied with his rough work does he feel close enough to what he wants to begin putting it on canvas. The Waterloo artist finds himself working with simple shapes taking shapes of color, arranging them to make them balance and then experimenting with a combination of colors which at first don‘t appear to be complimentary. ""In the area of color one of my main interests is to try to use unfamiliar colors and not make it appear that way,‘‘ said the artist. ‘"I work with colors people wouldn‘t normally see." Exhibit at Waterico Public Library Mr. Polkinghorne‘s works deal strictly with shape and color. The finished products lack perspective and picture plane. Terry James ‘‘The human element is else. He said the structure _ The local artist‘s work has Chronicle Staff Writer involved and you want to do of a painting, whether it be a been received with mixed Ted Polkinghorne doesn‘t something different with three panel mural or a reactions by visitors to art refer to his works as paint it,‘"‘ he said. ‘"Once you turn Screen, has a lot to do with Salleries where he has preâ€" ings. Instead he prefers to into painting shapes they bee his whole artistic process. viously exhibited. Locally label them as painted come more and more what He strongly believes that his works have been part of panels. He is an artist in~ they are. With figures an arâ€" the proper structure or A student and faculty show terested in interior space tist can‘t get something re frame can make a ‘‘nothâ€" at UW. and architecture â€" thus the moved enough."‘ ing"‘ piece oh into some _ Yery seldom have.‘ reason he entitled his exhiâ€" _ Many of the artist‘s more thing extraordifiary. heard someone say I hate bit at the Waterloo Public popular designs are faâ€" ‘Included in Mr. Polkingh ;t * said the artist. "I haâ€" L_lbrary, **Interior De shioned from torn paper orne‘s local exhibit are vyen‘t observed people being signs."" shapes. screens, three panel murals puzzled or confused either." Mr. Polkinghorne‘s works ‘‘I like using this meth and three sculpted heads. . deal strictly with shape and od," said Mr. Polkinghorne. He refers to the latter as a _ Mr. Polkinghorne attribuâ€" color. The finished products <‘People don‘t know what it poor man‘s sculpture. As tes this lack of confusion to lack perspective and picture ;s but subliminally they reaâ€" Well as sculpturing and his dealing with the unconâ€" plane. lize what they are looking painting he has worked in a ventional while at the same "‘In the area of color one at." few other media. It is Mr. time being subtle. of my main interests is to _ One of the artist‘s favorite Polkinghorne‘s belief that 1. illi try to use unfa_lmiliar colors works is a screen. contemporary artists should lookp :‘:p:y z:’:rkw lalll,:l%i:: and not make it appear that ‘"I am swinging into a branch out in more than one them (the subtleties) I don‘t way,"‘ said the artist. "I dijrection that has more to â€" field. Th mnrer thrmine nork "a% nannle (%4 Artist works with unfamiliar colors, interior space I x.la V‘“fis The local artist differs from many painters in that he decides on the structure of his work before anything ‘‘I like using this methâ€" od," said Mr. Polkinghorne. **People don‘t know what it is but subliminally they reaâ€" lize what they are looking at." **I am swinging into a direction that has more to do with physical objects or pieces of furniture,"‘ he said. "I am moving fairly steadily into the decorative sense and am using some of the philosophy behind Jaâ€" panese paintings.‘‘ Julie is right. The country is magnificent. But high prices, bad food and bad manners make it less than a paradise for travellers. Is that why most jobs in these fairly lucrative trades are held by immigrants? Is that why our minâ€" ority of good restaurants are operated by immigrants. You can spend ten minutes looking for a clerk in a supermarket. You could spend the rest of your life looking for a porter at an airport. You can turn purple in the face waiting for service in a department store, while two clerks chat about their night out at the sinâ€" gles club, and a third burbles away on the phone to her boyfriend. Why? Is it that nativeâ€"born Canadians feel themselâ€" ves above the service trades, so that they take out their resentment on their customer. Occasionally you get a genuine smile or a real thank you, but more often they are perfunctory or nonâ€"exisâ€" tent. letting you sign in. Car jockeys come squealing up to the front door of the hotel, jump out, hand you your keys with one hand while holding the other out, and disappear to let you, with your bad back, load the bags into the trunk. **‘Contemporary artists don‘t as a rule,"" he said. **They feel it is more feasiâ€" ble to do one thing and do it well. This has a real stagâ€" nating effect. All artists soâ€" mehow should have the faciâ€" lities to be able to spread out and do a number of things. A lot of things in conâ€" temporary art lends itself to this." The play, which openedr:' Tuesday, March 13, will to Friday, March 17, at the UW Humanities Theatre. Playwright, Alexander Ostrovsky, was famous for poking fun at the nouveau riche. In his work Diary of a Scoundrel, which takes place in 1867, Ostrovsky uses his main character, Yegor Gloumov, to make fools of people who have faiâ€" len into money. The comedy is the major spring production of the UW drama students performed under the direction of Tom Bentley Fischer. **People are willing to look at my work and find them (the subtleties) I don‘t throw them out at people. A painted panel somehow has to sit on a wall and rest Mr. Polkinghorne attribu tes this lack of confusion to his dealing with the unconâ€" ventional while at the same time being subtle. there Mr. Polkinghorne‘s panels, screens and scul tures will remain on displ’ at the Waterloo Library Gal" lery until Sunday, March 18. The gallery is open during regular library hours. reactions by visitors to art galleries where he has preâ€" viously exhibited. Locally his works have been part of a student and faculty show at UW. a ‘‘Very seldom have. @ heard someone say I hate it,"" said the artist. "I haâ€" ven‘t observed people being puzzled or confused either." in easy, unprovoking UW