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Wednesday, December 4, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 5 Sisters Library exhibits celebrate ‘bravery of art’ By Helen Schmidling Correspondent Every month, Sisters Library displays work by local artists, with exhibits coordi- nated by the Art Committee of the Friends of Sisters Library. This month, Linda Hanson9s large paintings hanging in the computer room, and the community room display of holiday art by Rachel Moore deliver great contrasts, both in the work displayed and the vision of these two art- ists 4 one seasoned and one youthful. Large paintings by Linda Breese Hanson are part of her early and mid-career collection. <Art takes a long time,= says Hanson, whose career spans more than 50 years. <It takes time and intention. The energy of your life is going into that painting, during the time you are painting it.= Most striking is Hanson9s self-portrait, about six by four feet, done in the 1980s, when she lived in the Bay Area. She tells its story: <I was driving up to the snow, going skiing. I looked in the rear-view mirror and I saw half my face. I thought 8what if you did a self-por- trait where you couldn9t see the whole person?9 and that9s what I did. That red coat was my signature coat for so long, but I no longer have it. I still have the big glasses, though.= The newest piece in this collection is a portrait of Hanson9s granddaughter, Summer, at age 6. Summer, who was born on the Winter Solstice, is now a teenaged soccer player. A native Oregonian, Hanson packed up her worldly possessions and young son, Aaron, and headed south to a new home in Berkeley, California in 1965. <I wanted to do art, so I went to Berkeley College of Arts and Crafts,= as it was known then, she said. <I worked in graphic design jobs, and raised my son. I took art classes when I could afford them, and spent a lot of time drawing.= At one point, she decided she really needed to go to school and earn a degree, as she9d gone as far as she felt she could on her own. <So I went to San Francisco State, and studied with Bob Bechtle, an amaz- ing California oil painter, and Richard MacLean, who painted horses. Both taught, and both were master paint- ers,= she said. <I got my undergraduate degree, and decided to go to graduate school. I was accepted at San Francisco Art Institute, but the week before I was sup- posed to start, I came across an ad, looking for someone who wanted to travel and talk about art.= She took that job, which was a combined public rela- tions, art ambassador and recruiter for the San Francisco Art Institute. She deferred the Let HBC Be Part Of Your Christmas Celebration Sundays in December Each one a celebr ation. Sunday Worship at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Walk to Bethlehem Living nativity graduate degree studies for a few years, and in return got to travel around the country talking about the art school and the wonders of doing art. She left her son, Aaron, back home in Berkeley, where he launched a career as a mem- ber of the thrash metal band Laaz Rockit (<Fire In The Hole=). Eventually, she returned to SF State, got her masters, and has since created many large (and small) paintings that have been shown and sold in galleries around the country. She continues to travel around the world, from Europe to South America, from the Palouse to Yellowstone, to her favorite hiking grounds along the Metolius in Camp Sherman. Hanson is an equally gifted photographer. Since acquiring her first camera at age 13, Hanson has traveled widely as a photographic art- ist, and earned awards for her photographic images. <I use my camera as my sketchbook, too,= she explained. Hanson returned to Oregon seven years ago, settling in Sisters. She continues to explore new avenues of art, most recently completing a workshop in the process called encaustic. You can see more of her work and read her story online at learningto- drawwater.com. PHOTO PROVIDED In the library9s commu- Linda Hanson’s work is hanging nity room, you9ll find Rachel this month at Sisters Library. Moore9s playful display of traditional holiday draw- Community 3 will be filled by ings done with black ink and the end of December. marker on white paper. Moore <The grouping is inspired is a young artist whose whole by Christmas and the holiday young life has been about art. season,= Moore said. <The Along with the black-and- optics depict Christmas in a white illustrations hangs a way that is both traditional <blank= canvas, stretched, and and playful.= ready for artists (young and Moore is from south-cen- old) to create a work using tral Idaho, the foothills of the their own impressions. 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