CAYEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-07-08 published
MacCHARLES,
Mae
The family of the late Mae
MacCHARLES would like to extend our
sincere appreciation for all the kindness and sympathy shown
in our recent loss. Special thanks to the Forest Ontario Provincial
Police (Constable Vicki
CAYEN), Doctor Wayne
JOHNSON, Gilpin Funeral
Home,
Rev.
Kanji
MARUI, the Arkona United Church Women and all
those who sent flowers, made donations to the Strathroy Middlesex
General Hospital and sent food to our homes. Your generosity
and kindness was greatly appreciated. -- The
MacCHARLES
Family
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CAYGILL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-01-21 published
CAYGILL,
John
Ranson
After a long illness, on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at the age
of 82. Beloved husband of Marion (née
RIX.)
Loving father of
Jillian (Rob) and loving grandpa of Matthew, John and Kathryn,
all of Calgary, Alberta. Survived by his brother Geoff of England.
Memorial Service will be held at Christ Church Anglican, 8045
Islington Avenue, Woodbridge, 905-851-0718, on Monday, January
23 at 2 p.m.
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CAYLEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-01-25 published
POWELL,
Bill
It is with sadness that the family announces the passing of Bill
POWELL at Woodingford Lodge, Woodstock on Monday, January 23,
2006 in his 81st year. Bill was a
son of the late G.D. (Del)
POWELL and Charlotte
(CAYLEY)
POWELL.
Predeceased by his sister
Jacqueline (Jackie)
GARDINER (1999.) Survived by his wife of
52 years Edna
(PORTER)
POWELL of Woodstock, son Rick of Spruce
Grove, Alberta and four grandchildren. Also sister Margaret
TREZISE
of Woodstock and brothers George (wife Bertha) of Saint John's,
Newfoundland, Laurie (wife Joan) of Woodstock and Charles (wife
Dale) of Ottawa. Remembered by nieces, nephews, relatives and
Friends. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Bill joined
the Oxford Rifles in Woodstock, then the Royal Rifles of Canada
in Quebec, the Royal Canadian Navy in Halifax, and the Royal
Canadian Air Force in Winnipeg. In each case he was discharged
for being under age. He went to sea with the Merchant Navy, serving
on Canadian and American ships carrying supplies in war zones
in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. He continued to
serve on merchant vessels until 1950. On his return to Southwestern
Ontario, Bill worked for Veterans Affairs Canada in London. Following
his retirement he returned to his hometown in Woodstock. Bill
has been a member of Branch 55 of the Royal Canadian Legion for
more than 60 years. He was active in a number of organizations
including the Naval Association, the Historical and Genealogical
Societies, and the reunion committees for Chapel School and W.C.I.
The family would like to thank the staff at Woodingford Lodge
for their loving care and support. Friends may call at the R.D.
Longworth Funeral Home, 845 Devonshire Ave., Woodstock (539-0004)
Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the complete funeral service will
be held in the chapel Thursday at 1: 30 p.m. Interment Forest
Lawn Cemetery, London. No flowers please. At Bill's request,
a fund has been established to purchase a medical lift for Woodingford
Lodge. Those wishing to do so may contribute to the Bill Powell
Lift Fund at Woodingford Lodge, or to a charity of their choice.
Online condolences at www.longworthfuneralhome.com A Legion Service
under auspices Royal Canadian Legion Branch #55 Woodstock will
be held at the funeral home on Wednesday at 6: 30 p.m. There was
only one Bill and there will never be another.
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CAYLEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-10-11 published
LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH,
Lorna
E. (née
CAYLEY)
At the Delhi Nursing Home on Monday October 9, 2006 Lorna E.
LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH formerly of Norwich in her 97th year. Beloved wife of
the late Ivan
LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH (1992.) Dear mother of Elinore and husband
Bob VANPARYS of Otterville, Janet and husband Roy
BANNON of Newmarket,
John and wife Donna of Norwich, Scott and wife Margaret of Mt. Albert.
She will be missed by her 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Predeceased by her parents Thomas M.
CAYLEY and Elinore
(CARROLL)
and brothers Harry
CAYLEY,
Thomas
(Ghent)
CAYLEY. Lorna was a
member of the Otterville W.I., active with the Otterville U.C.,
U.C.W.. she was an Empire Loyalist, and member of the Sunshine
Club. Friends will be received at THE Arn-Lockie Funeral Home,
, 45 Main St. W. Norwich on Wednesday October 11 from 12-1: 00 p.m.
Funeral service to follow at 1: 00 p.m. Interment at the Norwich
Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made to
the Canadian National Institute for the Blind On-line condolences
at www.arn-lockiefuneralhome.com. Arn-Lockie (519) 863-3020.
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CAYLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-12-16 published
David PARTRIDGE,
Painter And Sculptor (1919-2006)
With a 'virtuosity of hammering,' his hard-edged, tactile and
sculptural Naillies transformed nails and wood into art forms
that are both evocative and spiritual, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page
S11
What came first, the nail or the hammer? That is the question
people ponder about artist David
PARTRIDGE.
Although he began
his artistic career as a painter and a printmaker, he is best
known for his Naillies. To create them, he would begin with a
piece of plywood, although he was known to use doors, beams and
other surfaces, which he sometimes covered in buffed or abraded
aluminum. Then he would hammer in nails of all sorts (aluminum,
copper and steel) and lengths, beginning with the shortest to
create a "relief sculpture." According to his fancy, he polished
or trimmed the hammered nail heads, wrapped the Naillie in duct
tape to give the surface more texture and lacquered or painted
portions of the finished work.
The
Naillies were quite spectacular, said artist Tony
URQUHART,
who was mentored by Mr.
PARTRIDGE in the 1950s. Although a very
different type of artist, Mr.
URQUHART also creates sculptural
collages or "boxes" out of wood, nails and many other things.
"They were things that had never been done before and they were
made at a very high level." And they also reflected many of the
artistic and social concerns of the time.
Besides the visual, tactile and auditory sensations of the works,
Mr. URQUHART was really impressed by "the virtuosity of his hammering."
By that, he meant Mr.
PARTRIDGE's workmanship in getting the
nails in straight and figuring out how deep to hammer them. "I
couldn't do that," he said. "If you X-rayed one of my boxes.
I would be embarrassed because the nails go in at different angles
and now I pre-drill them. But with the Naillies, one nail out
of line and …"
Mr. PARTRIDGE was an intensely creative person who seemed to
make art instinctively and organically rather than consciously
and deliberately. His daughter, Kate, says his life was a series
of creative cycles interspersed with down or resting phases until
something dramatic happened in his life or his environment, and
that would spark another creative synergy.
He is curiously not well known, said artist Ron
BLOORE, who had
known Mr. PARTRIDGE as an artist and a friend since the late
1950s. "That guy had a real collection of weird wild nails."
The works, especially the later ones, sometimes got to be quasi-religious
or spiritual, he said, because they explored "a visionary experience."
David Gerry
PARTRIDGE was the youngest child of Albert Gerry
and Edith (née
HARPHAM)
PARTRIDGE.
His favourite toy as a child
was a hammer, which he used to drag around with him and hit things
although not always from a creative impulse. One of his grandfathers
was a roofer, and the other was an undertaker, so that's where
he may have inherited his affinity for hammering nails, his wife
suggested this week. His other great love was flying, a passion
that can be dated to seeing his first airplane in the 1920s on
a family visit to Florida.
His father was a senior executive with Goodyear Tire, and so
David, his mother and his older sisters, Elspeth and Emily, moved
across the Atlantic in 1928 when Mr.
PARTRIDGE was transferred
to England. During the seven years that his father served as
president of the British firm, David went to Mostyn House School
in Cheshire, then Radley College in Oxfordshire. When they moved
to Canada in 1935 so that Albert
PARTRIDGE could head the Canadian
operations of Goodyear, David was sent to Trinity College School
in Port Hope.
That's where he met Edward
CAYLEY, who always called him Birdy
and considered him his closest friend for the next 76 years.
"We were opposites. He was stubborn and impatient, but for some
reason we got on," said Mr.
CAYLEY, noting that his friend had
a great sense of humour. "He was always restless, and that's
where the creativity came in."
After
Trinity
College School, Mr.
PARTRIDGE went to Trinity College
at the University of Toronto, concentrating on English, history
and geology, and graduated in 1941. He immediately enlisted in
the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he scored so highly on his
training courses that he was made a flight instructor and spent
the war, much to his chagrin, on this side of the Atlantic.
On June 14, 1943, he married Helen Rosemary
ANNESLEY (always
known as Tibs), who was serving as a Women's Royal Naval Service.
The couple had known each other slightly at university until
their final year, when his mother spotted Ms.
ANNESLEY at a reception
for visiting parents and told her son that he should "marry that
girl."
The year after they had both graduated, they began seeing each
other socially, and became even closer when both of them were
posted to Ottawa, she with the Royal Canadian Navy and he with
the air force. By then, his mother was dead and it was her mother
who was issuing the directives that Mr.
PARTRIDGE should "marry
that girl."
After the war, the
PARTRIDGEs moved to St. Catharines, Ontario,
where he taught art first at Appleby College and then at Ridley
College. Their two children -- Katharine (always called Kate),
a psychologist, and John, a reporter at The Globe and Mail --
were born there in 1945 and 1947. This was the period in which
he was finding himself as a water colourist and a printmaker.
He won a British Council scholarship to study at the Slade School
at the University of London, so the whole family lived in Hampstead
for the academic year 1950-51. Afterward, Mr.
PARTRIDGE enthused
about working with artists Tom Monnington and Edward Ardizzone,
the "wonderful introduction into etching and engraving" he received
from John Buckland-Wright, and the stimulation of being in contact
with Graham Sutherland and John Piper, among other Slade professors.
After returning to Canada, he taught high school art at St. Catharines
Collegiate and Vocational Institute, co-founded the St. Catharines
Art Association and the St. Catharines Public Library Art Gallery
(and was its first curator) and taught summer school at Queen's,
the same place he had himself studied a decade earlier.
The PARTRIDGEs, who were both anglophiles, lived in Sussex with
their children from 1956 to 1958 and for a longer stint beginning
in 1960. All the while, he was showing in group and solo exhibitions
in Canada and abroad. In February and March of 1958, he was studying
etching and engraving with William Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris
when he had a creative breakthrough.
"I was fascinated by the irregular surfaces of deep-etched copper
and zinc plates, irrespective of their purpose in printing. They
became low-relief sculptures, which seemed to my ex-pilot's eyes
like aerial views of topography," is the way he described the
process later. One Saturday, he was gallery-hopping and came
across an exhibition by Hungarian sculptor Zoltan Kemeny that
he described as "bas-reliefs using all manner of metal bits and
pieces, welded into an even more exciting aerial vision than
the etched plates had provided."
The eureka moment came in Ottawa (where the family was then living)
the following winter when he came across a piece of plywood left
over from a renovation. "Nails were at hand and a hammer! I descended
to the basement and made my first nail sculpture." The Naillies,
as Mr. PARTRIDGE called them, were born. Wood, the most basic
building material, became a platform for work that undulated
with rhythm, light and texture. Hard-edged, tactile and sculptural,
Naillies transcended their utilitarian origins and transformed
nails and wood into something evocative and spiritual. Naillies
seemed too skinny a word for a new art form, so at a dinner party
with Alan Jarvis of the National Gallery and his wife, Mrs.
PARTRIDGE
came up with the term "configurations."
He had his first solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and configurations
at the Robertson Galleries in Ottawa in October of 1960, the
same year he gave up full-time teaching and moved his family
back to England. They stayed until 1974. Since then, Naillies
have been acquired by the National Gallery, the Art Gallery of
Ontario, the Tate Gallery, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and
the Gallery of New South Wales and many other institutions. He
also won commissions, such as Metropolis, a huge mural for the
new city hall in Toronto and the Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial
in Westminster Cathedral in London.
After returning from England, they settled in Toronto, spending
summers at a cottage near Stony Lake, Ontario, that they bought
from Mrs. PARTRIDGE's family. By 1980, Mr.
PARTRIDGE, who had
some spare cash after having sold a big Naillie, indulged his
unquenchable love of flying by buying himself a do-it-yourself
kit for an ultra-light plane. He partially constructed it at
his studio on Queen Street and then hauled it up to the cottage,
where he attached floats and set off across the lake, never having
flown that kind of plane before.
He took some great photographs, said Mrs.
PARTRIDGE, by tying
a string around his big toe and attaching it to a camera "so
he could fly with both hands, which he needed to do, and his
big toe would pull on the thread and snap a photograph." Once
again, he was interested in aerial views of the landscape, the
same topographical impressions that he created in his Naillies.
About this time, Mr.
PARTRIDGE reconnected with his old friend
Ed CAYLEY, who had also been living abroad, by phoning to ask:
"Do you still like movies?" The two men resumed a ritual weekly
trip to the movies that had begun in their undergraduate days
at the University of Toronto. After Mr.
PARTRIDGE had a stroke
a little more than three years ago that seriously hampered his
mobility, Mr.
CAYLEY brought lunch and a DVD to watch with
his old friend at home.
David Gerry
PARTRIDGE was born on October 5, 1919, in Akron,
Ohio. He died of heart disease on December 11, 2006, after a
stroke and a heart attack. He was 87. He is survived by his wife,
Tibs, his daughter Kate, his son John and their spouses. There
will be a public graveside service today at 10 a.m. at Saint_James-the-Less
Cemetery in Toronto.
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