The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 76

2 February 1B, 1990 Women's News THE SUNDAY OKLAHOMAN House AGES (1M0 7YRS) BEAUTY PAGEANT COSTUME CONTEST TROPHIES MORE! First-Time Bidders Snag Dining Room look, both traditional and contemporary. "My aunt used to live in' the house," Vaught said, "and I don't remember' everything being particularly sophisticated" Shelley Stewart, who will be decorating t'm livine room has worked on fh- show house for the past five years. "1 keep doing it because it's tun. It's good experience in business while I'm helping the philharmonic': or-, chestra I help Oklahoma City, and me, at the same time," she said. Stewart said the show house is the only-medium where decorators can show what they cah do an where people can meet them By Peggy Gandy Society Editor Designers tf.or.tell Vogt and his partnei Hark, working unaYi me company name Foxglove wore pieased when they were selected to decorate the Decorators Show House dining room.

They said they submitted a design idea for the first time: this year. Our friends and clients encouraged us to submit a bid," Vogt said, "so we The Gecuralots uUn t-j use a European aatqie ollection of furniture in rich jewel tones. Kathryn Vaught, decorator for the master bedroom, said she is guixif tor an Htic at the same time, Recently, many of her clients have asking about allergy-free room, she said, and the public is becoming more aware of toxic substances in the home. Consequently, she is Mm the living room "as a non-toxic remodel." "I'm "using environmental compatible products, she. said.

"There are some-compromises tSiat have to be made because the industry doesn't have everything we need yet Stewart- said' she is concentrating on non- toxic paints and fabric, neai-aHergemc and re-cycled batting inside iybQh)erd fumitun and safe wavs to dispose of paiftt OKLAHOMA TULSA WICHITA CITY AREA AREA KS. AREA 636-1400 663-1551 267-4800 REGISTRATION ENDS FEB. 24TH From Page 1 coffee at the empty show house were sent out to 200 designers. The 98 decorators who responded were given a tour of the house as well as copies of the floor plans and an information sheet on deadlines. They were instructed to submit a brief description of their decorating ideas, based on a Georgian theme, and to list the first three choices of rooms they would like to decorate.

Their proposals were due by 4 that afternoon. The next day, working from a chart show-ing the designers' choices, June Parry, Georgiana Wiesner and JoRene Sherburne began deciding which room would be assigned to which designer. Sherburne said with rRuin Majern "Passion for fashion" I "Passion for fashion" TERIJON only 30 areas to be decorated, matching the designers to the rooms was "like a jigsaw puzzle." This meant some of the designers selected were asked to decorate rooms other than the ones they had requested. Final decisions were made and notices sent out to the designers by Dec. 15.

"Most of them were understanding," Sherburne said. However, some of them chose not to participate if they couldn't have a room of their choice. "Yes, there were some hard feelings," she said. Chosen designers The owner returned the renderings, all approved, to the show house committee Feb. 1.

In the midst of all the hard work, the decorating committee gave the designers a break with a get-acquainted breakfast in the empty house on Jan. 9. Everything is set on were invited back to the house Dec. 19 to measure rooms, sign contracts and pick up designer boards on which to put color swatches and details. The boards were due Jan.

17, at which time they were sub-mitted to the homeowner, Local Federal Savings and Loan, for approval. go and the doors to the show house will open for the designers to begin work on Feb. 26. Scheduled completion date is April 10, and odds are every last one of them will make the deadline, even if a committee member has to stay up nights to help paint a ceiling! Come Visit! Artist FRENCH MARKET ANTIQUE MALL 63rd N. May 848-5561 All Fall Winter 60 off strictly Maternity Fashions Candy Square N.

Penn at Brfflon RS. From Page 1 classroom and looked around, I thought, 'I'm a lot more serious about this than these other It was like a way for me to release something artistic, and I realized that was what I really wanted to do. "Of course, tole painting involves a pattern, and I realized quickly that I was feeling bound by that. So I started kind of redesigning. I found out I could make something look real, and I thought, 'This is "I loved it." It was during the tole painting classes that Rorex first recognized her talent (until then, she had assumed everyone could draw), and a scholarship to Bacone gave her the opportunity to develop it.

She studied with Cheyenne artist Dick West, who encouraged her to pursue her own style. "He was the first person who ever told me I had a style," she said. "I was thrilled. He advised me, but he never tried to limit me." She graduated in 1980 as class saluta-torian and went on to earn a degree in graphic arts at Northeastern State University. But several years passed before she was able to overcome an inse curity about her artistic abilities.

"It has only been within the last year that it hasn't made me totally uncomfortable to tell someone I'm an artist," she said. "I used to feel like an impos-ter like I wasn't really 'there' yet." It also took a while for Rorex to find subject matter that truly suited her. She had once been advised by her uncle, internationally known wood sculptor Willard Stone, to "paint what you know." At the time, she didn't grasp his meaning, but when she began to paint Indian women and children, understanding came. "That's what I know," she said. "I understand a woman's view." Rorex uses no models.

The faces of her women come directly from her imagination. "Sometimes I look into a mirror or have my sister sit for me, but only to see how to place hands or feet, never for faces," she said. Most of her women resemble each other, and she often is asked if she paints the same face on each canvas. "To me, they're not the same each one is different but I always think of them as Cherokee," she said. "You should see my temper flare, though, when people ask me why I don't paint 'pretty' women.

I try to portray real women. I grew up on a farm where my mother worked as hard as my father did." When Rorex once heard another artist complain about searching for ideas, the statement shocked her. "My gosh," she said. "There are so many things to paint. What I need is time.

"One of my goals is to put together an exhibit of 20 or 30 paintings of women doing things drawing water, gathering eggs, doing laundry. And I'd like to set these paintings from the late 1800s up to the Depression era." Rorex often portrays pregnant women, because she considers pregnancy one of the most beautiful and special times in a woman's life. She also has done a number of paintings of two women, because she thinks "friendship between women is important." She describes her style as simple, and she finds joy in her ability to convey a message with the strokes of her brush. Painting has become a vital thread in the fabric of her life. "It's as though I can't stop," she said.

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