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 reflection of 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.

Her devotion to her subject continues unabated.