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Angus, Ontario, Canada
I am a Canadian artist, who has been known to paint realistic wildlife and abstract paintings. Most of my paintings and ideas are inspired by nature. I spend most of my time in the northern wilds of Canada. When looking at trees I tend to see people in their shapes. On an average day I will sit and imagine how an old tree might be thinking in the way it has shaped itself over time. Some of my paintings are a result of these imaginings.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Hamilton- It's Your Festival

Had an o.k. weekend at the Hamilton It's Your Festival. The concerts were really good. The weather was hot, but I had electrical hook-up so I could run the A.C. in the trailer. They also allow water hook-up. Sales were a bit down. They had a local frame shop selling, cheap framed posters of top selling artists. Some of them didn't even have glass. People are just so ignorant about quality framing. It was hard, especially because they were right beside me and kept trying to stand in front of my pictures. Really rude. I was a couple hundred down in sales because of it. I'm not sure if I will return next year. But it's hard to give up going back to our home town and visiting family and friends. Oh well! I guess I'll see how the rest of the year goes.
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  1. MedievalWednesday, 04 July, 2007

    Our sales were down as well, because of the guy selling his silver at cost because he was selling off his business. It was not good. People expected us to drop our prices as well - below our cost. Then we had lost stollen on the last day. Did you get out before the fights?

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  2. Kate RamosMonday, 09 July, 2007

    I actually didn't return this year, because the organizers put a commercial poster framing store right next to me. It's hard enough trying to compete with other singular artists but it's another whole ball game competing with every famous artist in the world, and they aren't even at the festival. So there are other festivals to attend to. Sorry to hear there was a fight this year. Now I'm glad we didn't attend.

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