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The imnortance of Ward?s ?sense of place? solidified with the settling of his family?s estate in 1979. His mother, Junita Luc Ward, was the family historian and left behind a wealth of information about the family and the history of the area. One 1630 document places ancestors of the Ward family in France long before the French and Spanish settlers set foot on the Gulf Coast. Related family names include Bordages, Farve, Saucier, Luc (or Luke), Guzman and Ladner.
?When I looked at photographs of my mother and father, my grandparents and my great-grandparents, all in the same setting with the beach and Gulf in the background, I realized that these were a part of the images that had been surfacing in my work for the past 10 years,? Ward said.
?Over the past 10 years, I have become increasingly interested in focusing images that initially made a visual impression on me during my formative years in New Orleans and Bay St. Louis,? he said. ?The images are, for me, personal ?icons? that evoke a sense of time, place and culture that have shaped my perspective.?
?The images and feelings that I have tried to capture in my work are directly connected to this geographical location...,? he said, ?...particularly Bay St. Louis, where my roots go back to the early settlers and where my family still lives to this present day. Drawn from memory, the images are the raw material and basis for my work.?
?BAY REVERIE??Paintings by Bay St. Louis native Harry Ward, including this ' one, will be exhibited Nov. 5 through Dec. 7 at Hinds Junior College in Raymond.