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Kate Grigg was born in Orillia, Ontario in
1958 and began her career as a painter and
writer there. She later became a columnist
for the
Orillia Packet and Times
and now writes for the American specialty
magazine
Pug Talk.
Grigg collaborated with Arthur Shilling on
“The Ojibway Dream,” a slim volume of his
work published shortly after his death in
1986. She began painting for her own
pleasure, and developed her style based on
her attachment to Orillia and the northern
areas she frequented early in life.
“I suppose I must believe in the spirit of
the place,” she says. “Certain odd little
streets and sequences of houses seem to me a
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Spring Morning
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all of us. There’s something brave and
vulnerable about them, the way they stand
there stubbornly ignoring the fact of their
own smallness compared to the universe and
the passage of time.”
Grigg currently divides her time between
painting in Orillia and the home in Toronto
she shares with her husband, pianist Danny
McErlain, and their black pug, Hogarth.
Her devotion to her subject continues
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