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BY MELISSA MARTIN

Special to the AV News

For Ann McIvor of Port Alberni, art comes naturally.

McIvor is the latest in our “meet the artist” feature for the Community Arts Council of the Alberni Valley.

McIvor is a freelance artist who has been drawing since she could hold a pencil. Mostly self-taught, she took naturally to drawing people and her body of work attests to that. McIvor says her first love is portraiture, and her website, annarts.com, features portraits of both people and animals. Her portraits of people capture their personality, from the curiosity in Nikola Tesla’s expression (a 10×12 acrylic of the inventor) to the hint of a smirk in another subject’s portrait.

McIvor’s work—especially her Raven series— was featured at the Rollin Art Centre last summer in Women’s Work. She was one of a number of female artists exhibiting together, including Sue Thomas, Jillian Mayne, Colleen Clancy and Laurie Blakley.

McIvor also works as a graphic designer, creating digital art as part of her portfolio.

McIvor has illustrated a number of children’s books, including Mr. Bat Cat by Barbara Christine Bechler, The Gentle Giant by Teresa Guidon and the children’s action adventure book The Samurai Baby Part 3 by Marcus Robinson.

While her media ranges from pencil to computer to paintbrush, she enjoys painting the most. She works in both oil and acrylic.

McIvor is based in Port Alberni but her work is featured around the world.

WINTER BREAK

The Rollin Art Centre is closed for its annual winter break and will reopen with a new exhibit featuring the mixed media artwork of Sarah Williams on Tuesday, Feb. 1 during regular operating hours, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Rollin Art Centre follows provincial health orders and will modify its reopening if necessary.

Melissa Martin is the Arts Administrator for the Community Arts Council, at the Rollin Art Centre. E-mail: communityarts@shawcable.com.

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Raven No. 10 is part of Port Alberni artist Ann McIvor’s Raven series. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Port Alberni artist Ann McIvor’s work can be found in pencil, digital format and painting—the latter of which she says she loves the most. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

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A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last

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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.

More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.

The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.

They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.

“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”

It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.

Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”

Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.

“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.

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