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Show ATTORNEY WHO PAINTS Bountiful city attorney Layne B. Forbes displays oil painting that he completed a few years ago. Atty. Forbes began painting in college but quit for nearly 20 years before resuming his hobby in 18. He has several sever-al outdoor scenes hanging in Bountiful City Hall. farm which has since been mostly developed commercially. commer-cially. But the Forbes family has retained six acres of the homestead which is located immediately west of Davis North Medical Center. The farm, located near Antelope Drive, has been sold over the years for a K-Mart store and the Davis North Medical Plaza. Now, a major interchange of Interstate Highway High-way 15 is under construction just a stone's throw from the farm. By GARY R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL City Attorney Layne B. Forbes sometimes has a difficult time making up his mind what he wants to do but once. he ' does, he sticks to his guns. ATTORNEY FORBES, for example, is an excellent artist. And he's an excellent attorney as well. But to become the latter, he waited until his final year of college to decide to enroll in law school. Then he waited until un-til the very last week to apply. LAYNE ALSO took 20 years to decide that he could be a pretty fair artist. He started painting landscape scenes back in his college days, then closed his paint brush set for 20 years before opening it again in 1968 to paint a scene for a Bountiful Third Ward art show. In fact, Layne's first landscape land-scape scene a beautiful mountain scene looking west from Ogden Valley into the mountains was never finished. "I LIKE to paint from location loca-tion and just couldn't get back up to Huntsville enough times to get the painting completed." com-pleted." he said. The only classroom education educa-tion Layne had for being an artist was one quarter at We ber State College. It was there that he painted a football locker lock-er room scene which turned out to be his first sale. "I GUESS I was slow to get - interested in art," says Layne. "I didn't take any classes in high school although I loved to just 'doodle' cartoons. Then, soon after I got started. I quit and never touched the brushes again for 20 years." Now Layne stays active as a landscape artist doing two or three large scenes a year, mostly for relatives and a few close friends, HE HAS a large fall-season painting on the wall of his office in Bountiful City Hall and there is another of his paintings on the wall of the reception re-ception area for the mayor and city manager. Layne says he loves to paint and gets frustrated when he sees a particular scene, under ideal lighting conditions, and doesn't have the time or the brushes with him to paint the scene. SO AS a substitute, he often carries his camera with him and photographs a particular scene. The scene depicted in the accompanying picture of this story was painted from the cover of a book he purchased several years ago in California. "I enjoy painting scenery," he says. "It's a means of releasing re-leasing my emotions and tensions ten-sions as well as accomplishing something. And because of my love for landscape artistry, I am able to enjoy the outdoors more now than ever before. HE WON first place in a Bountiful Handcart Days contest con-test recently with a painting of an old barn located in west Layton. He later sold the painting to the owner of the barn. Layne has never entered a painting in a state contest but says he will someday. Asked if he has painted that "award-winning" "award-winning" entry, he said: "PARTLY. I started the painting about nine years ago, but it's still unfinished. But when it's done. I'm going to enter it in a statewide contest." con-test." Like he says, "it may take me a while to get me going, but I'll finish it some day." LAYNE WAS elected a Bountiful councilman for two terms. During his third term, in 1972, he was appointed the city's ci-ty's first fulltime attorney. "The city has been a good client and I have really enjoyed my job." he said. "It's been very challenging and I have had the opportunity of working on some large cases." HE CITED the law case in volving Bountiful's attempt at eminent domain necessary to obtain property for the development de-velopment of Davis Blvd. as one of the most important the city has faced while he has been city attorney. "That was a case that involved in-volved much more than just condemnation procedures," he explained. "Environmental issues became prominent in the case which eventually ended en-ded up in the state Supreme Court." HE NOTED that the defensehandled de-fensehandled by the late Supreme Court Judge Richard Maughan attacked the very question of the necessity of having Davis Blvd. as a through street. "If we had lost that case, there would not be a Davis Blvd. as we know it today." he said. ANOTHER CASE of real importance was one involving the city vs. the Weber Hydro-electic Hydro-electic Plant. This case ended up with arguments in Washington. Washing-ton. D C. w here Layne was an assistant to the former Secretary Secret-ary of Interior Stewart L. Udall. who represented the city in this case. Layne take pride in being referred re-ferred to as a "farmboy from Layton." HE WAS raised with three other children on a 37-acre |