Another Wolfe Island Farm on Baseline Road – This one close up. Does anyone know whose farm this is?
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Windmill painting
One For the Show
Well… it has been a long time. Those of you who know me will know that I spent my early life painting and selling these works in shopping malls across Ontario. I was just a teen and out of my teens then and for some strange reason that I cannot remember, I used to sign my paintings with the name Lana, or Jamey. I suppose I thought it sounded cooler than Laura or using my last name, as I do today. Anyway… the news is, that I just started selling paintings again. It is exciting to go full circle.
I now have 12 pieces on display at Hatter’s Bay. I hope you will stop by at this wonderful small business! You can’t buy a lemon tart today though because I bought them all! Sorry (not really). Last night we had a wonderful butternut and sweet potato soup from there with an artisan bread loaf from Fred’s that she carries there. YUM!
If you are interested in my work you will want to know that am asking $190/painting inclusive for each one. The frames are (of course) Canadian made.
If you are making a day trip of it, just around the corner on Mowat, there is a new little shop with beautiful things made by a sweet and chatty artist/seamstress, another artist/painter and also a jeweller. It is in a little white house there and NOT well marked. (SHHHH! I got the cutest little hand made bloomers for my new niece.) It is a great little outing. Creative things and then a lovely bunch of local food on your table for supper!
The show is now over. To see any works please contact Laura here.
Kingston’s Wars
This painting is of Cathcart Redoubt which is one of the four large Martello Towers that were built along the shores of Kingston in response to the Oregon Boundary Dispute. There are also two smaller ones. All are still standing.
The perspective of the image: from Fort Henry using a telescopic lens, so that you can easily see the tower on Cedar Island as well as Wolfe Island in the background.
One does not see Dead Man’s Bay in this painting but it should be noted that during the building of this particular tower, 17 men perished when their boat capsized there. These men were trying to return home after a day of work; sadly, this is how this bay got its name.
These towers were pretty much obsolete by the time they were built and fortunately were never needed to be used militarily.
With the towering windmills behind the tower in this painting, the name Kingston’s Wars seemed to me to be appropriate. Kingston has new really seen any war but for any of you who are not local and reading this, the construction of these wind turbines caused many hard feelings and disagreement between neighbours. Now with them present, land values in question and still feelings running high, one wonders if the healing of this generation of islanders, will happen.
I truly hope that it will.
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Spring Cattails and Turbines
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Another one from an early and lovely spring day on Wolfe Island. This photo, and I believe my painting as well, capture better than a lot of images just how HUGE these turbines are on the landscape. The large farm is sitting close to the base of the (closest turbine) and it is simply dwarfed compared to it.
I am still not sure if I love or hate these giants, but one thing I can say about them is that they have forever changed the view and I like to paint them. OK… that was two things…
Hatter’s Bay Country Market
658 King Street West
Kingston Ontario
In keeping with my own beliefs I could not be more thrilled to announce that Hatter’s Bay Country Market has accepted and will display (for sale) my Wolfe Island Series of paintings.
Hatter’s Bay is a local store. What I mean by this is that it carries local products. Wonderful candles from a local bee keeper, maple from a local farm, wonderful hand made dog biscuits, made from local products, locally produced and sourced food and of course, local artists work.
It is a gorgeous and unique business where you can stop by as a tourist just to look around, but I am sure that you will find more than one thing that you will want to pick up for dinner. I also suggest that you pick up a lemon tart which is a fantastic combination of shortbread and lemon. To die for!
The store is in beautiful and historic Portsmouth Village (now a part of Kingston). The setting for the Convict Lover which is the story that was written when the writer Merilyn Simonds purchased a home in the village and found a series of letters written by a convict from Kingston Penitentiary and a young girl who grew up in the home many years ago. If you have not read this, I suggest that you get a copy. It is an amazingly well researched historical fiction.
I hope you will all pop by Hatter’s Bay and don’t forget to bring your appetite not just for art, but for wonderful local food! Your dog wants a treat too! I know I am right, because dogs love Laurie’s dog treats!
DATE OF INSTALLATION: To be announced
Map (Hatter’s Bay is the lucky 7)
Categories: Art, Tiny House Ontario, Windmill painting, Wolfe Island
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Grandma Moses Children
When you arrive on Wolfe Island, and turn left off the ferry, not too far down the road sits this lovely Tiny House which is actually a child’s play house, I assume.
Having grown up in the country, I could never understand people’s reluctance to move kids to the country because there is “nothing to do”. Nonsense!
In this little image alone, the little girl in me can find at least a hundred things to do. The grown up me too.
I hope that the owners of this beautiful place did not mind my laying on my tummy in their lawn to get this angle? No one yelled at me anyway.
The bench faces out toward Kingston to Lake Ontario.
What I am after in this painting, is the simplicity of Anna Mary Robertson, the solitude of Lawren Harris, the movement of Emily Carr and the light of the Dutch Masters, the mood of the impressionists and the story telling of Douglas Coupland… not asking much of myself, am I?
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Last Year’s Wheat
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Spring Wolfe Island Farm
I was at Tiny House Ontario over the weekend. It was beautiful. Took a quick trip over to Wolfe Island for some photos. Painted this little 8×8 today.
New Sun
24 x 48 Special thank you to my friend, the photographer, André Gerow for allowing me to use his image as a jump off point.
