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10A • June 5, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com Local artist remembered for work on the ‘Great Sneaker Spill’ McLeod from Page 1A “He lived close to the rhythms of the tides and of the forests,” said Watt Chil- dress, co-owner of Jupiter’s Rare and Used Books. “He really loved this place.” A memorial service will held 6 p.m. June 24 at the American Legion Post 168. Beach scenes Born Aug. 17, 1944, in Long Branch, N.J., under the name Steven McLeod Woodward, he was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, served in the U.S. Coast Guard and earned a bachelor of arts degree at Utah State University. He adopted “Steve McLeod” as his artistic signature, though he never legally changed his given name, his older broth- er, Wayne Woodward, said. In the early 1970s, Mc- Leod settled into Arch Cape and, later, Cannon Beach, where he and other local art- ists, including Frank Lack- aff and Bill Steidel, helped shape the town’s identity as an arts colony. McLeod co-founded the White Bird Gallery with Evelyn Georges in 1971 and displayed his work there and in other regional galleries. For years, McLeod most- ly painted realistic beach scenes featuring things like dories, Haystack Rock, the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse and the Columbia River — work that Cannon Beach resident Marilyn Rooper called “absolutely gor- geous.” “His paintings were mas- terful,” Cannon Beach resi- dent Karolyn Adamson said. “What he could do with light on water was just magical.” Steidel said McLeod was “rather shy and bashful about his work.” “But, at the same time, he was very proud about what he did,” Steidel said. “In my mind, he was one of the best artists that Cannon Beach has had.” A new direction Then, Picasso-like, he entered a new period. His paintings grew less repre- sentational, more impres- sionistic. He began creating kelp-and-seaweed sculp- tures and collages and other artwork fashioned with the spoils of his beachcombing, particularly plastic and Sty- rofoam litter. “He was looking for things that were not useful to anybody else, stuff that had washed up,” Wayne Woodward said. McLeod, a consummate environmen- talist, didn’t like to see trash on the beach. “He was try- LQJ WR ¿QG XVHIXO ZD\V WR use that, so he would make sculptures out of it.” 6RPH RI 0F/HRG¶V ¿QDO work consisted of landscape imagery painted onto small cardboard wine boxes. “I believe (the wine boxes) al- lowed Steve to experiment with this style without hav- ing to commit with large expensive canvases or fram- ing,” White Bird Gallery owner Allyn Cantor said. Though McLeod’s later work didn’t sell nearly as well as his more accessible seascapes, Sharon Amber, a Cannon Beach artist, told him his abstract work was top-notch. McLeod told her, “‘This is what’s in my heart. This is what I really like to do,’” she said. “A lot of people don’t understand abstract art,” she Council selects budget items Budget from Page 1A on measures including ren- ovations to City Hall, repair of the city’s downtown tennis and basketball courts, and construction of a new plaza at the west end of Second Street. The plaza will feature bench- es, low lighting and a rebuilt sidewalk. Funds will be avail- able for the reconstruction of the Spruce Street blocks be- tween First and Third streets to make them ADA-accessi- ble, and for repair of the pub- lic works garage. :LWK WKH ¿OOLQJ RI WZR new staff positions, the in- formation technology direc- tor Russell “Rusty Barrett” DQG ¿QDQFH GLUHFWRU /DXULH Sawry, personnel costs will increase about 12 percent for ¿VFDO \HDU %DUUHWW is to earn an annual salary of $67,000 for a 32-hour week; Sawrey will receive an annual VDODU\RI In a May letter to the coun- cil, however, City Manager Brant Kucera told members the actual amount the city has spent on IT services during the last two years has exceed- ed the budgeted amount by PRUHWKDQSHUFHQW Personnel services overall, including the roads fund, total ca n n on bea ch GAZ E T T E Room tax to support visitors’ center Seventy percent of a 1-percent room tax increase will help fund the Visitor In- formation Center through the Chamber of Commerce while 30 percent would go into the city’s general fund. 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The extra tax revenue in the general fund could support the Cannon Beach Library, which Kucera recommended in May should become a line item in the city budget. said. “If he could have tak- en it to New York, he would have been famous, I think.” Rooper said that a true artist, like McLeod, “wants to go places where he hasn’t been, moving on, trying new things.” Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, who was collaborating with McLeod on a photo book of three-dimensional land- scapes based on the artist’s sculptures before he died, said Steve was a “true free spirit,” which is very rare, he said. Soles lost at sea Had McLeod never pro- duced a single work of art, he still would have achieved a kind of immortality thanks to the Great Sneaker Spill of 1990. 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He often ventured into the nearby forest reserves to hunt for chanterelle mushrooms and sell them to restau- rants. “Steve was an extreme- ly wiry, agile person who ERICK BENGEL PHOTO could get across the land- In honor of his life, one of scape quite handily,” Lind- McLeod’s kelp sculptures, sey said. which he made many of in McLeod lived an in- his later years, sits in the dependent and intensely window sill of The Bistro in private life, which bor- downtown Cannon Beach. dered on reclusive, Wayne Woodward said. “He was more caterpil- sold many of them and some- times incorporated the shoes ODU WKDQ EXWWHUÀ\ VRFLDOO\ into his art, Ebbesmeyer speaking,” Childress said. McLeod told his fam- wrote. What’s more, Mc- Leod had networked with ily that, upon his death, other beachcombers, arrang- he wanted all of his art- ing swap meets and trade work and belongings given fairs where owners of ocean- away. So, late last month, borne Nikes could acquire his older brother, Wayne Woodward, and Wood- the missing mates. Ebbesmeyer used Mc- ward’s wife, Marci Wood- /HRG¶V LQIRUPDWLRQ WR UH¿QH ward, opened McLeod’s his models of ocean currents. loft apartment, just west of The Smithsonian Institution the Coaster Theatre, for the put on an exhibition illustrat- community to take what LQJFXUUHQWÀRZVWKDWLQFOXG- they wanted. His paintings ed some of McLeod’s Nikes, were claimed in no time. “The community was Cannon Beach resident Peter his family, too,” Marci Lindsey said. Woodward said. ‘More caterpillar than Days before he died, McLeod told his brother butterfly’ that he was “pretty hap- By all accounts, McLeod py with his life,” Wayne was kind and intelligent, Woodward said. Dads are Sweet! Vote of confidence In an executive session prior to the regular meet- ing, Mayor Sam Steidel and council members provided an evaluation of City Man- ager Kucera. 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