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 [...]
Tomorrow’s the first of December. The temperature is hovering a little above freezing with the precipitation alternating between light drizzle and wet snow. And so it is that today should be the day that I decided to decorate the planters and put up some Christmas lights outside of my building. Nothing like doing electrical work [...]
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 [...]
Whenever we hear the word ‘vigilante’ it surely must evoke images of Charles Bronson wandering the streets at night, single-handedly eliminating crime in the movie “Death Wish”. While the legal definition of the word does mean ‘to take the law into one’s own hands’, the word comes from the Spanish term for ‘watchman’ or ‘guard’. [...]
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
This is a 360 degree view of beautiful, little Pier 4 park in Hamilton on a warm August evening. In these photos it is Thursday at about 8 P.M. During the summer and through September the Vintage Car crowd drive their autos down to the park. For a few hours you can go back to [...]
Okay. Holiday’s over. I have had the same painting on my easel for the better part of the past two months now. I had decided to take a couple of weeks ‘off’ when the nice weather arrived. And two weeks stretched into three and then four and so on, with too much time spent outside [...]
You may remember that I was complaining about the neglected flower bed in front of MacNab church at the top of the underpass steps. I was complaining to the point of volunteering to plant it myself if the City of Hamilton would agree to water it. I am so happy to see that it is [...]
I don’t want to complain about the disgraceful state of City Hall’s public square without offering some partial solutions to the Mayor’s ‘eyesore of concrete’ in front of Hamilton’s City Hall. Realizing that there is a city union and also paid suppliers of plants and flowers for the city, I would like to propose the [...]