This is just a quick blog to remind everyone that the 1st weekend in December each year is when I host my annual Holiday Studio Tour – www.holidaystudiotour.com Although I could not manage to publish a new Christmas print due to Lennie’s health crisis and the amount of my time that it consumed, I will [...]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas; at least in my studio. My newest print is titled “Ancaster” and as the name implies, it is a view of the beautiful old Town Hall on a Winter’s evening with the overtones of Christmas evidenced by the Christmas ornamentation and Victorian Carolers. Chaucer and Catya make [...]
Here are the answers for all you children who helped color the “Pirate’s Cove” & “Cinderella’s Castle” wall murals at the Stoney Creek – Centennial Pkwy location of CAA on ‘Saturday, May 2nd. ‘Cinderella’s Secret’ Cinderella knows that to be beautiful on the outside, you also need to be beautiful on the inside. Be kind [...]
Thank you to everyone who voted for me …and to whomever nominated me in the first place. I have just been informed that I have won the Hamilton Spectator Reader’s Choice Award of ‘Favorite Artist of the Year -2008′. Thank you Hamilton, Kathryn www.hamiltonartist.com    www.kathrynsmith.ca
As the cold weather starts to encroach upon us I have been forced back inside. That means that I have to do a lot of painting because Sabine at the Framing Warehouse has finally (after two years) talked me into having a show of originals in their beautifully renovated Anastasia Gallery adjacent to The Framing [...]
Every once in a while a really good advertising venture comes along. This came to me in the form of an Internet ad in which a photo of Chaucer has been animated to read my advertisement aloud. Good idea. Great marketing by a really nice man – thanks Adam. To take a look at Chaucer [...]
I have recently published a new print in time for Mother’s Day. “Saturday Stroll” is a painting based on Locke St. in Hamilton, Ontario. To view this painting please go to the ‘Limited Editions’ page on my website at www.kathrynsmith.ca I will be having an Artist’s Open House this coming weekend of Mother’s Day. The [...]
From the earliest humble dwelling to the famous line uttered by Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’, the feeling is the same as you walk in the door: “There’s no place like home.” During the 19th century the art of house portraiture thrived as merchants and land owners prospered, their wealth reflected through the building of [...]
On Saturday, December 15th Chaucer and I will be at The Framing and Art Centre on Upper James and Mohawk in Hamilton (905-387-1479) from 10:00 AM untill 12:00 noon. Come meet Chaucer and I. We would love to see you there!  Kathryn & Chaucer www.kathrynsmith.ca    www.hamiltonartist.com
I remember Eaton’s windows. Many were the Decembers that my sister Shirley and I went downtown with our parents to do our Christmas shopping at Eaton’s department store. We not only anticipated the joy of visiting Santa in the huge toy department, but also looked forward to standing outside the store, walking from one window [...]