Artist’s Alley Lois Fuchs by Lyn Tremblay
In a quiet Lambeth neighbourhood on a street lined with mature trees, a certain group of local residents can often be found making their way to the home of Lois Covington Fuchs. Their ultimate destination will be a spacious studio room overlooking a back garden, filled with flowers, butterflies, birds and wildlife, within site of a babbling water feature. While they might admire this in passing, their focus will be on one particular individual who has been invited to sit perfectly still – perhaps for hours at a time. That person, also frequently a local Lambeth resident, has been called upon to be a model for the ‘portrait group’ who have come to enjoy the afternoon with Lois. They will unpack canvases, oils, bits of charcoal, watercolour brushes or sketching pencils and welcome the rare opportunity to practise capturing the image of a live model. And of course, the camaraderie of spending time with fellow artists. Their host, Lois, has worked with many mediums over the years, but says she prefers the immediacy of soft pastels. Many residents will be familiar with the work of this talented artist, who has lived in Lambeth for over 20 years. She is a member of the Lambeth Art Association, a group who just celebrated 50 years in the community. Lois’s work is featured in their annual show and art sale held at the Lambeth United Church. The professionalism and expertise exhibited in this artist’s work are easily identified, especially in the portraits of people and animals, many of which are in private and public collections across North America. Lois says she is drawn to realism and the inherent truth of the living form in space, and loves the challenge of portraying the essence of that form in the natural expressions that reflect each subject’s unique character. In short, “it’s whatever trips my trigger,” she notes, adding, “I take a lot of pictures when I travel, and sometimes certain things just resonate with me.” Friends and family look forward to her annual Christmas card. “I always do a card using my wooden artist’s mannequins.
I think I started 30 to 35 years ago,” Lois explains. “It’s just part of my whimsy.” Nutcracker Christmas will be her Christmas card this year.
Lois is also a member of Art- withPanache, a collective of local artists who show and sell their work in a gallery located in the Talbot Centre (465 Rich- mond Street). Chippewa Pow- wow will be part of the ‘OH! Canada’ art show, September 20 to October 10, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. Her work, Arrange- ment in Pink and Black was recently accepted into an in- ternational juried show.
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the Lambeth Villager
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