{"id":4139,"date":"2017-08-30T06:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T06:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2017-08-30T23:15:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T23:15:17","slug":"haunting-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=4139","title":{"rendered":"Haunting Mash Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Court Painter claims a ghost in Inglewood Studio<\/h1>\n

Editors Note: Because of an unexplained mix up in Court Painter’s Media Studio Central, most of the photos accompanying this dispatch have bugger all to do with the ghost story. However it should be noted many of the images accompanying the story are stills from Court Painter’s recent music video and coincidentally have a haunting quality when viewed from a safe distance. <\/em>Anyway that’s all we can say right now!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Court Painter, Canada\u2019s preeminent portraitist of the Great Dominion’s paunchy political and cirrhotic celebrity class, was hearing strange sounds at his official studio in Inglewood. Lying in his studio hammock, he heard \u201claboured breathing\u201d and footsteps coming from behind a stack of unsold paintings. He checked and no one was there. While watching Winsor & Newton video ads, he heard a chain hit the floor in the studio. Again he checked, and nothing was there.<\/p>\n

The peculiarities at Court Painter’s studio, it seems, had gotten to the point that an unpaid studio assistant often refused to venture in the studio without her garlic garland and venomous snake.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGhosts,\u201d Court Painter wrote on the studio wall, \u00a0\u201cI never believed in ghosts. Until I arrived here.\u201d In that scrawl, Court Painter wondered if the ghost \u201cwho walks the cramped halls of this studio\u201d was ” Thomas Kincade Painter of Light,” the late and great richest painter in America who was rumoured to have visited the Calgary Stampede at the height of his artistic and monetary glory, way back when.<\/p>\n

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Press Attache A Hardon MacKay a self identified man of the Enlightenment says he never noticed any supernatural presence. Nor did the one eyed land lord who rented the studio in 2005. So the question becomes, if the ghost of a rare wealthy art hero has visited Inglewood, is he haunting the studio or is he haunting Court Painter?<\/p>\n

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It was Court Painter \u2014 the former art professor made famous for his role in introducing naive rural raised Alberta art students to the reality of the Void & Nothingness \u00a0\u2014 who last year intervened when a \u00a0protester disrupted an exhibition of machine made art by local art celebrity CC (name provided upon request).<\/p>\n

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Court Painter took hold of the masked man by both arms and dragged him across the gallery before realizing it was AHM his Press Attache. The move earned Court Painter critics in P.E.I. It\u2019s not clear if that move also earned him critics on another spiritual plane.<\/p>\n

Anyway they made up and continued as business partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t recall anything out of the ordinary in the studio,\u201d said A Hardon MacKay, a former inmate on Prince Edward Island who has served as Court Painter’s Press Attache since 2013. \u00a0\u201cAll I can say is the place seemed pretty normal in a bohemian sorta way when I first walked in and I am completely comfortable carrying on with my prestigious position.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Girl Named Robin said she never heard anything strange other than Court Painter’s usual speaking in tongues when she visited the studio with her pool playing bodyguard. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have hung in there long if I did,\u201d she snorted demurely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we are entering the realm of fantasy!!!\u201d sputtered the unidentified landlord who rented the studio in 2005 after its long-time mixed media artist tenant expired because he couldn’t keep up with the changing vocabulary of contemporary art & life. \u201cIn all my 30 years plus years of lording over artist tenants in Inglewood, none ever complained of a studio being haunted , so excuse me when I laugh a little.\u201d He was excused by all those present.<\/p>\n

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The shifty one eyed landlord said prior to 2005, the artist who occupied the studio had been there \u201cfor generations.\u201d It was a stunning place, he said, with north light, a gin mill and pot gardens front and back. Asked again, for good measure, whether he\u2019d heard anything odd during his tours of the studio, the one eyed,one legged landlord constantly moving in a circuitous circle said he hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think you are losing the run of yourself altogether. Stay off the brandy.\u201d he sputtered and gave away he likely had Irish roots by the cut of his jib and tweed “Make Green Great Again” hat.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s likely that the distant prospect of Thomas Kincade Painter of Light choosing to haunt a man, rather than a studio, would be distressing for Court Painter, who has been forever less fascinated by Kincade’s light and more his dark riches.<\/p>\n

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Last year, however, Court Painter admitted in his sleep that he \u201cput the old Moose Antler hat on\u201d and investigated local rumours about Kincade and his visit.<\/p>\n

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Court Painter, as an out of print art magazine noted, has Iowa corn field heritage and grew up with knowledge of goblins guarding the corn liquor and ethereal corn husk dolls that went whoosh in the night.<\/p>\n

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Court Painter summoned all documents from his early years and found an original ghost photograph. He had it framed and put on display in the studio. \u201cI\u2019ve had people come in here and start crying when they see it,\u201d he told anyone who would listen.\u00a0\u201cI would not be surprised if my great artistic ride is up. And if so, it has been a hell of a ride and nothing like going out \u00a0with a bang, broke and scared shitless.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Court Painter claims a ghost in Inglewood Studio Editors Note: Because of an unexplained mix up in Court Painter’s Media Studio Central, most of the photos accompanying this dispatch have bugger all to do with the ghost story. However it should be noted many of the images accompanying the story are stills from Court Painter’s … Continue reading “Haunting Mash Up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}