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Garden Center to feature Smith oils during Pilgrima
The Bay-Waveland Garden Club’s Garden Center at 114 Leonhard Avenue in Bay St. Louis will serve as headquarters and starting point for the 1986 Spring Pilgrimage tour of the city.
Among highlights of this year’s tour, which is conducted under auspices of the garden club and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Council of Garden Clubs, will be a Garden Center display of the paintings of Laurent Smith of Bay St. Louis.
Smith, a resident of the Bay for the past 17 years, has been painting for some 25 years.
The paintings being shown are a representative selection from the 300-ODD he has produced.
They are painted in oils on stretched canvas or hardboard panels, using a fine-stroke technique suggestive of pointillism, to define a more-than-usual amount of detail.
All are of landscape themes, depicting in most cases actual scenes, several of which are local.
While subjects are mainly restricted to Southern Coasts and flatlands, they range from the Carolina tobacco fields to Texas hill country, with Mississippi and Louisiana featured.
The painting is done in a home-studio, mostly at night, using appropriately designed artificial lighting.
Typically, a work begins with onsite photography, notes or sketches, supplemented by certain subtle emotional responses recorded in memory.
From this data, rough compositional sketches are made in the studio, followed by small-scale color studies.
The final product may be a detailed enlargement of one of the studies or a composite of several, Smith explained.
The studio activity does not always closely follow the initial field work. Sometimes 20 years may
elapse between the first impression and the final rendering, he noted.
“Good painting is largely a product of mood. When you’re painting just for the hell of it you paint what moves you at the moment,” the artist feels.
The average picture represents about 80 hours final brushwork plus half as many more devoted to field and preliminary activity.
Smith says his paintings have evolved from a desire to preserve for future recall the fleeting pleasures encountered in roaming the back roads and quiet streets of the South.
Also, attempting to recreate on a flat plane the multi-dimensional charm of the open-air scene presents an endlessly-fascinating challenge. No other motivation is involved, he said.
Smith, a native of New York State, has lived and worked most of his 78 years in various parts of the South.
He still paints but has retired from
TOUR LUNCHEON STOP—The Landmark Townsquare Restaurant And Loimge at 210 Main St. in Bay St. Louis will serve a special $3.85 luncheon Thursday, March 27 from 11:30 a.m: ttr t?.m. for participants on the 198S Spring Pilgrimage Tour of the city to be sponsored by Bay-Waveland Garden Club. A creole cottage was built in 1880 on the site originally owned by P. R. Pray who came from Maine in 1820. The building was purchased by J. O. Mauffray on April 12, 1906 and a front addition
added later. The building, renovated and converted to a restaurant in 1979, is currently leased by Kay and Sonny Wolfe of Bay St. Louis who operate The Landmark whfclrhas beeii featured in 'Southern LivuTg," TJctti-'/' Homes And Gardens’ and ‘Mississippi Magazine.’ Kay Wolfe reported Friday The Landmark is an official tour stop and will be open from 11 a.m. to all tour participants, whether or not they order lunch. (Bay-Waveland Garden Club photo)
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His art education - a continuing process - is obtained from extensive reading of technical and art-history publications, long hours spent in museums, galleries, and exhibits, and a close study of other painters’ works. He has had no formal training.
Except for a brief, unsuccess episode in free-lance commerc art as a young man, art work, © sisting at various times of activity pen-and-ink, pastel, and wat color, has been restricted to leisi hours. Sustaining occupations fc been in the distantly related field; topographic and geologic map di
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Friendship Oak NS DAR
By Joe Pilet, publicist
Fred Wagner, a well known Bay St. Louis architect was guest speaker on Saturday when members of the Friendship Oak Chapter NS DAR met during the lunch hour at the Ramada Inn of Long Beach.
Announcing his topic as ‘Pericles - Meet Victoria,’ Wagner told the group that fashions in buildings seem to change about every 25 years. He explained fashions in furnishings, fabrics, and wearing apparel also change and are influenced by financial conditions, political factors, climate, and the taste of socially prominent persons.
In a relaxed, conversational, and frequently amusing manner, Wagner led his audience through the quarter-century periods in architecture beginning with the 1700-1725 and continuing through the 1850’s. Trends in architecture in the 1700’s were related to artistic events with France and England setting the styles.
Pericles, whose birth must have been somewhere around 490 B.C., fostered the highest in arts and science in the ancient world. Possibly with a bit of ‘tongue in cheek’ Wagner ‘revived him,’ while pointing up the beauty of simplicity.
The Gothic style developed in France, Wagner said, and touched on its acceptance and approval throughout many European countries, and later finding favor in this country.
In judging architecture, Wagner said what may be admired by one generation may be called ‘ugly’ by another. Beauty, strength and usefulness are the
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Bay-Waveland Garden Club
The general meeting of the Bay-Waveland Garden Club was held at 2 p.m., Thursday, March 13, at the Garden Center, 114 Leonhard Avenue, Bay St. Louis.
The president, Mrs. John Newkirk, called the meeting to order. The Devotion was given by Mrs. Mildred Banscher, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
Mrs. David A. Los Calzo reported on the Oriental Magnolia. Mrs. Jack Mohr spoke on the Spring migration of birds and said Mississippi is in the direct line of the route taken in the migration.
The Garden of the Month Award in Bay St. Louis was given to Mr. and Mrs. H. Merrick Rodi, 140 Leopold Street, and in Waveland it was given to Mr. Jack Sawyer, 904 Wood Street. Floral arrangements were put in the Bay St. Louis Library by Mrs. Clarence Ladner and in the Waveland Library by Mrs. N. L. Snider.
Mrs. John Holmes announced that there will be a Flower Show Judges Symposium March 17 through 19 at Gulf Park in Long Beach. Mrs. Holmes also announcd that the High School Gardeners will present the play “Little Women” at the Waveland Civic Center on April 4, 5 and 6. The public is invited to attend.
Mrs. George E. Baud reported on the planting of trees at Christ Episcopal Day School in Bay St. Louis, and at St. Clare’s Elementary School in Waveland to celebrate Arbor Day. Mrs. Baud stated students were enthusiastic about the tree plantings.
President Newkirk announced that the members of the Bay-Waveland
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