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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I mean, I’ve been to her house when it wasn’t open for a tour, but I was just curious about the layout of the place. I suppose I could explore this question online...

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

How was Emily Carr’s house in Victoria laid out? I know she took in boarders to cover expenses, but in “her" space she hoisted her furniture up on a pully system to have room to paint—but where was that, anyone know, have blueprints? She manages to make BC forests look both tropical and dangerous.

One of Carr’s paintings with her typical dark forest, and here faced by a little creamy church with a little creamy steeple, surrounded by grave markers.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Really love Maria Farmer’s artwork. www.mariafarmerart.com

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Maria Farmer

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Alas, I am retiring this page as I reorganize my social media life again. I used to do a brisk business with my art on FB—literally had often sold a piece within a minute of posting it—but it’s been dead here. Don’t know what my plans are at this point beyond this one decision yet… Thanks to all.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Autistic artist wins Turner! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Sketchbook, unsure of date, size.

Woman sitting 3/4 pose back to the viewer, in tones of orange and browns, arm along top of somewhat raised leg.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Doubt even Warhol could pull them out of their 3-D printed meat scandal now.

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 01/12/2025

Jennifer Packer’s tender portraits of friends veer between mark-making and stunning specificity. Even if their faces were blurred, even if they melted into their monochrome surrounds, they were fully and lovingly rendered.

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Jennifer Packer Confronts Grief Through Paintings That Cut Deep

The painter mines an iconographical language of grief through delicate, translucent paintings imbued with a sense of intimacy and intensity.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Napkin and paint on paper. The Fight.

Two adults argue above their child. Figures are made from napkins, black and white dotted, have dashes for words. Kid has unhappy face and arms over head.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Here’s model Emily Metalskin in her fox fur stole, again a take off on Otto Dix.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

After Otto Dix. Model Emily Metalskin. Thinking this is 9x12, and probably I painted it during the early part of this pandemic we’re in. Person with monocle sits craning to look at the camera while seated at small bar table. Martini, cigs, matches. Tones of pink and green.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

How do you feel about your mommy? I had an extremely contentious rel’t with mine. Anyhow, this quick sketch was from a pic I took of her when she turned 40. I’d just turned 17 and was already snap-happy.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

After Van Gogh, tricky, time-consuming, made me ask myself how he managed a canvas a day. Talent and skill, of course, having no kids, but how else? I’ve never really known if I believe he was mentally ill.

Young white woman sits by the fire holding infant. Her dress is blue; she inclines her head toward the warmth. The fire looks like it’s coming from her feet (passion keeps us warm?).

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I love this artist’s work: www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/81-c...

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Caroline Walker

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I loved the time at the beginning of the pandemic when artists would build their online sessions in homages to famous painters. This little sketch, which I think is on paper, 9x12”, is from a Tamara de Lempicka session.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

She looks so sad, don’t you think? I often think of her life as this sad, I must admit. I went to her house once in Montmartre, only to find its art emphasis completely male, incl featuring her son. She had a little wall to the side mostly of her sketches. Based on a Valadon self-portrait.

Sketch based on a Suzanne Valadon self-portrait. Valadon is staring into a mirror by a bowl of apples, her hair is short, blunt-cut brown, bangs. She wears a brown (with designs) dress.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Generally when I see a content warning, I can just put on it to see the art.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I don’t know why. Can you reset your moderation settings? They’re absurdly ridiculous for figurative art.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

…2 Remember that in those days, having your photo taken meant a very long camera exposure where no one was allowed as much movement as a deep breath—that’s why everyone looked so irritated and unhappy.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Sometimes it’s fun to take on a glum photograph from more than 100 years ago. The mother here was a sister to my great-grandmother, and the children my grandmother’s cousins.

Males on the left, three: father, toddler, young teen, girls on the right: three sisters, mother on the far right. My ancestors painted in tones of pink, blue and red. 16x20” oil on canvas.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

“Childless Cat Ladies…” What could be more appropriate to comment on this regime? Women on a sidewalk with leashes holding black cats in tones of orange, blue and grey.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Photography, done the traditional way. White woman photographer wearing a red shirt, a scarf, and turquoise pedal pushers, leans contemplatively on finned green car. Near brick wall, blue sky in bkgd.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Well, that certainly brings it into the political discussion...

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I’ve always thought Gauguin cut it off, personally.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

What do you think when you gaze at yourself in a mirror? Are you critical of what you see? After Suzanne Valadon. White woman holding black and white blanket up stares at her refection in a black-framed full-length mirror. Greenery and red curtain to the side. 9x11 acrylic on acrylic paper.

After Suzanne Valadon. White woman holding black and white blanket up stares at her refection in a black-framed full-length mirror. Greenery and red curtain to the side. 9x11 acrylic on acrylic paper.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Forgot to say it’s oil sticks.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Sunday; not sure how that happened! I always imagined this large board (30x40”) as an underwater or beside a pond image. What do you think?

I always imagined this large board (30x40”) as an underwater or beside a pond image. What do you think? Cheerful, bright, a mix of grasses and dots and slashes moving upwards, green, purple, yellow w blue bkgd

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Another in the autistic masking series. I believe in covid masking, too, and I believe there’s a painting here that shows that in 1918. But autistic masks are metaphorical. What would they look like if we could see them?

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Do you have an obasan or granny who looks like this? Would she sit you down with a bowl of food, or is she another type of person? Mine was the second. Although she may have been warm to my siblings, she never was to me.

Older woman wearing green, greying black hair up, green bkgd.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

If you want the very best oil sticks, choose PauldeMarrais.com. Buttery, custom colour orders welcome. Get small or ask for large. I’ve been getting mine here for years after being disgruntled by all the commercially avail ones. Not getting paid to say this.

Pauldemarrais.com oil sticks are groovy. Pic shows them in a rainbow of colours.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Cat says, Where are all the female artists?

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

What is she thinking, do you imagine?

Portrait of young white woman in a green dress with yellow/pink trim, orange room. The girl’s head is slightly inclined, looking at the viewer. Her hair is shoulder length, a honey brown.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I wonder how scary Vichy France became for she and Alice? They decamped for s. France and safety, but I look at this differently now that we ourselves are surrounded by the current brand of Vichys.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I know she perpetually felt behind the 8-ball financially since she depended on others for her income. She had someone to cook and type for her—a wife, a wonder millions of women writers would love the ease of. But I wonder how being stuffed into dresses worked for her?

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I always wonder if Gertrude Stein was ever truly happy as a butch dyke in Paris. Yes, she was well off, relatively, with whacks of freedom compared to most women, and she had what we ID now as a vivid, full life—but was it enough? Maybe she would have preferred not to write in “code?"

Gertrude Stein in her salon in Paris, with art behind her. Her hair is up; she wears a yellow scarf with a blue clip, and a green, form-fitting dress. The walls are orange.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Hopscotch! Feel the freedom your young body felt again? Girls hopscotch in blues and yellows. Oil on stretched canvas.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Hopscotch! Feel the kid’s body you once had, and how free it felt to move? Oil on stretched canvas, 20”x20”, for sale

How does this make you feel? Do you feel joyous, can you feel the freedom of your young body? Two girls play hopscotch. Tones of blue and yellow. Oil 20x20” for sale.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Working again on oil paintings from old images. Why is this mother so worried? I wonder what her worries might be. Has her husband left her to support the kids alone? 20”x20” oil on stretched canvas

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Have you ever had a conversation with an autistic person? The inside person, the outside person, which is most real? Oil in stretched canvas, yt woman sits on white couch with red pillow and red flowers. She wears orange dress. For sale. I believe this is 16x20”.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Two yt women in 1918 stroll wearing masks against the flu. (Not in very protective masks. We’re much luckier today to be able to find ones that work.) But it shows that protections/mitigations don’t have to ruin your life. 24”x30” oil on stretched canvas, by yours truly like all my entries here.

Two white women in 1918 stroll down the street wearing masks against the flu. (Not in very protective masks. We’re much luckier today to be able to find ones that work.) But it shows that protections/mitigations don’t have to ruin your life. 24”x30” oil on stretched canvas. Colours are brown, green, red, peach, off-white.

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History Chrono @historyachannel.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

In 1969, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro founded the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, challenging male-dominated art education. It empowered women to explore identity, collaboration, and political expression—reshaping the art world from the ground up. #ArtHistory

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Sixties hair; who doesn’t love it? Those beehives, man, they were something. Oil on stretched canvas, uncertain of size off the top of my head.

Sixties hair; who doesn’t love it? Those beehives, man, they were something. Yt mother and two girls done in mostly yellows and greens. Checkered wall in behind.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This is certainly what being disabled feels like. Always left out.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Even though the world has been pitched into war, a Sunday painting, one that perhaps expresses where we are now: Do you feel endangered when you see this? I do.

Woman crouching, done in orange with deep blue floor and turquoise wall. Cold wax and oil, 2024, 16x20”. DM for purchase.

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Hamilton Art @hamiltonart.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

What’s happening here? Two women in bathing suits, one probably helping the other to learn how to swim? Do you remember learning to swim, when someone else had to hold you up? Oil on board, 20x20”. In tones of muted pinks.

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Along The Garden Path @landscapechick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"The primary theme that drives my art practice today is celebrating the beauty of black childhood." This striking Gustav Klimt-inspired painting is by Maryland based artist Tawny Chatmon. #WomenArtists #FineArt #BlackArtists #ArtHistory The Redemption by Tawny Chatmon @tawnychatmon.bsky.social

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