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Artist finds the perfect canvas -- ostrich eggs

Published on -7/16/2009, 8:04 AM

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By SHIRLEY HENRICKSON

Special to The Hays Daily News

LOGAN -- The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum will present "Ostrich Eggs Series by Lenne' Nicklaus-Ball" through Aug. 2.

Nicklaus-Ball has intuitively subscribed to the surrealist's dictum of combining personal memory and found objects to create concrete dreams rich with meaning and feeling. She has assembled antique jewelry, real ostrich eggs and found objects to create memory pieces that pay tribute to her late grandmother.

The jewelry -- primarily strands of pearls -- is real and was given to her by her late grandmother. A fashion maven and socialite on the St. Petersburg, Fla., scene, she left a trove of jewelry, some of it expendable. To honor (or appease) the scrutiny of her grandmother's keen fashion sense, she decided to use the jewelry as raw material in assemblages.

While traveling in South Africa, she saw that some flea market artwork for the tourists also entailed carving on ostrich eggs.

These eggs have sufficient size, heft and fullness to metaphorically embody a concept of maternal influence: the perfect ground for a decorative essay on family memory.

The David Vollbracht oil-painting workshop will be held 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. July 22 through 25. Vollbracht is a representational landscape painter of the West.

His work reflects the quality of light, nature and spirit drawn from the land.

The class will be on the use of photography as a reference material.

Special emphasis will be placed on the limitations of photography and how to use it as a point of reference instead of a crutch. Design, color, values and composition will be explored as well as the more elusive but just as important elements of mood, passion and attitude that can make a good painting better and a better painting great. Call (785) 688-4846 to enroll.

The July artist of the month is Janice Kenney, from Elm Creek, Neb. Kenney has old door panel signs and shelves, wreaths, and candle holders on display.

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