Monthly Archives: April 2012

Hatter’s Bay Country Market

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Laura

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 | 6 Comments

Crooked Floor Cottage

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Laura

In order to purchase the land where Tiny House Ontario sits, I had to sell land with a very crooked little cottage on it. It was a fantastic spot in beautiful Warkworth, Ontario. You could walk to the village and yet you were secluded so much that you could bathe naked in the Mill Creek that ran around the ten acres.

This is the inside of the crooked cottage. I started painting it about a year or maybe two ago and lost focus on it. I pulled it out today and ta-da, it is done, like magic.

The stuff in the painting all has a story. The tall cupboard was retrieved from the garbage in Germany when I lived there. It is called a chimney cupboard. The wash basin and pitcher are made of enamel and were handy (still are) because either there or Tiny House Ontario have running water. The Victorian sideboard is from Eaton’s and cost ~$3.89 to order it from the catalogue about a hundred years ago. I had the catalogue but I donated it a while back so I can’t look it up. The sideboard now sits in my sister’s home, I gave this to her when she bought our great, great, great grandparent’s home. It is nice that it is there and it looks great in her kitchen. The stairs stool was built by my grandpa and the kettle in the other room belonged to him and grandma. The green footstool was also taken from the garbage; it has storage inside and I kept my dogs stuff in there. The candle holder on the wall was made by the Philoxian hippies at their commune in Marlbank. I bought it years ago when I was there with a group of friends from my youth; we were teeny-boppers then… I guess that this painting could just as easily be called waste-not, want-not or nostalgia.

I finally finished it today. It is 18×20.