Kate Ramos

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Name: Kate Ramos
Location: Angus, Ontario, Canada

I have lived in Ontario most of my life. I am a nature lover, who canoes into the Canadian wilderness annually. I have spent hundreds of hours canoeing and camping into remote areas. I use a camera to capture images and impressions for my paintings. I am a self-taught artist, with formal training in graphic arts. My hope is to give people the love I feel for nature, when viewing my images. I like to say a little piece of myself goes into each of my paintings.

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.

2 Comments:

Blogger Medieval said...

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?

Wednesday, 04 July, 2007  
Blogger Kate Ramos said...

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.

Monday, 09 July, 2007  

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