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! — Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 18,1977
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Mrs. Corine Haley has become a celebrity in her community of Ellenwood after developing a
proficiency for painting at the age of 76. Above Mrs. Haley does the mill at Rex.
She discovered art
of painting at 76
BY KEVIN COOK
Mrs. Corine Haley Ilves in a small, brown and
white house that looks Just like a scene out of one of
her paintings.
The Ellenwood resident’s talent for painting was
unrealized until three years ago. At that time, her
daughter passed away and Mrs. Haley suddenly
began to ponder her situation. ]
“What am I going to do now?" the grieving
mother asked herself. Painting became the answer.
And now Mrs. Haley has become somewhat of a
celebrity In her community, as the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution has done a feature on the
79-years-young artist.
“I don’t know anything about art. I’m Just
thankful to God to be able to do what I can," she
comments. Actually, Mrs. Haley’s penchant for
painting might be traceable back to her schoolgirl
days in South Georgia, where her teacher (who
instructed In a one-room schoolhouse) told Mrs.
Haley’s father that it “would be a shame If she
didn’t take art lessons." She was 10 at the time.
Mrs. Haley has captured the mood of those
long-ago days In a painting that depicts old tobacco
bams and trees "that shoot forever Into the sky,
some of them with no limbs on them."
To most, Mrs. Haley’s method of painting seems
an unorthodox one. First, she does the scene desired
on poster board, transferring the scene to canvas In
acrylics If she likes the way it turned out. A victim
of Parkinson’s disease, she finds working on a flat ,
surface preferable to using an easel.
"I’ve never stopped to figure out how long It takes
me to finish a painting," Mrs. Haley muses. "I paint
at odd times, whenever the notion strikes me. I
guess it takes me a week to complete a full-size
painting. My trouble is I paint too fast! At any rate,
painting calms me down."
Generally, Mrs. Haley refers to old photographs,
pictures in magazines, or postcards as subjects for
her paintings. "I use Just about anything I happen to
like. But, sometimes when I get through, the
painting doesn’t turn out like the original reference
material,” she observes.
Although she doesn’t usually go on location for her
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paintings, Mrs. Haley recently completed an old mill
scene at Rex. She wished to go there and remember
the days when she had watched the family’s com
being ground Into meal. "We had a chair factory
next door. I’m so glad they’re restoring the mill,”
she notes.
Mrs. Haley sometimes employs her Imagination
when creating a painting, and she occasionally
paints from memory. An example of this is a
seascape she did from memory after observing the
scene in a "Red Lobster” restaurant.
Among her many works there is a particularly
Impressive scene of a mist-enshrouded sun rising
behind an old bam. Mrs. Haley constructed this
painting from a photograph. From a postcard comes
one of the artist’s favorites: a snow-bound house.
Then there are grlss mills, various types of scenery,
and the like. "I think all the scenery Is beautiful-old
bams, old shacks in the woods, and similar things.
But, I’ve never been Interested In still life,” the
Ellenwood artist proclaims.
However, she has done a portrait of her grandson.
Mrs. Haley’s son, Leonard Richardson, Is
somewhat of a craftsman himself, making the
frames that enhance his mother’s work. Sometimes,
Mrs. Haley has the paintings she has done on poster
board put Into frames. She estimates having done
between 25 and 30 full-size paintings; Mrs. Haley
places them around her home, sells them or gives
them away.
The Ellenwood resident taught Sunday School for
some 15 years, and was a post matron with the Rex
Chapter of the O.E.S. 293. Mrs. Haley still gardens,
makes slip covers for furniture and until a few years
ago taught Sunday School. Recently, she gave two
acres of land for a park off Bouldercrest Road.
"I guess no one would object to being a great
artist-except me,” Mrs. Haley comments. "Actual
ly, I don’t know any great artists."
‘I don’t know anything about art.’
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Leukemia victim
MILWAUKEE—A Milwaukee
judge ruled that the parents of
Kimberly Cox, 7-year old
leukemia victim (above) could
not remove her from
Children’s Hospital. Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Cox want to send
her to a California facility for a
nutritionally-based treatment.
(AP)
For the birds
ALMOND, Wrs. (AP) - Les
ter Lant has built a 30-room
mansion that is strictly for the
birds — literally.
Lant built the giant birdhouse
this year to replace one his fa
ther had constructed atop an old
tower in 1931.
When the 150-pound birdhouse
is in place, Lant says onlookers
will see colored glass panes,
lights and a fountain.
“They love it,” Lant said of
his neighbors. “People all over
are talking about the tower and
the new birdhouse.”
Residents know value of their marshes
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) -
Glynn County is a bulwark of
Georgia’s coast and a nursery
for the oceans that caress its
shores.
And the people who live
around the county’s salt water
marshes there know their val
ue.
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of Glynn County until you’ve
had a mud bath in the mar
shes,” said Faye Cribb, who
works at the Brunswick-Golden
Islands welcome station on U.S.
17.
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