Hello, friends. Like the meadow voles and flocks of robins in the yard this week, I'm beginning to take a decided interest in the imminent spring. How welcome it is; what a long year it's been. Working outside when I could and painting in my studio when I couldn't has carried me through, so far. I'll be glad to see the pandemic go, whenever it does go. Over the winter, I've been staying close to home and keeping safe. Right now I'm working on framing paintings for my upcoming solo show with Landing Gallery in Rockland. In mid-May I'll bring around fifty paintings to the gallery, and the show will be up around June 1st, for the month of June. A catalogue is in the works and if anyone would like to receive a pdf of it in May, or photos of the paintings in the show, I will be ready to provide such things probably by the first week of May, if not the second week. The gallery will have paper copies of the catalogue, too. The show is called Local Color: an almanac of Maine painting and will feature mostly small works made over the last two years, as the seasons changed, one to the next. There's some snow, some fall color, some June flowers, some wintery shorelines, some hot summer sun, some fog, and some of the new growth of spring. Being out in nature throughout the year remains my joy. Here's one of the paintings from the show - harvest moon, white pines, Stockton Springs, Maine - oil/panel, 8 x 10":
I will also be showing paintings again this year with Littlefield Gallery in Winter Harbor. They keep some of my available work up throughout the year, and on my page on their website, then around fifteen paintings of mine will be in a group show in the gallery in mid-September into October. I feel very fortunate to be represented by two such wonderful galleries, in two different parts of the state I love so very much.
Thank you to friends and collectors who purchased paintings last year. 2020 was a banner year in that regard, and the extra funds allowed me to complete phase one of my studio renovation, in the little old cape house across the street from where my husband Ryan and I live. We bought the cape several years ago, gutted it completely, down to the hand-hewn beams, and it now has a new roof. Phase two will follow later this year, if all goes well. I appreciate the support and interest more than you will ever know.
I will write again with more news before summer, since I also spent much of the winter finishing the book I've been working on, about painting on Bear Island, in Penobscot Bay. The book itself is done, and now I'm doing some final housekeeping chores related to it. I hope to self-publish copies in July. Please stay tuned for more news about that, keep an eye out for crocuses - any day now! - and take care, in the months ahead.
Thank you to friends and collectors who purchased paintings last year. 2020 was a banner year in that regard, and the extra funds allowed me to complete phase one of my studio renovation, in the little old cape house across the street from where my husband Ryan and I live. We bought the cape several years ago, gutted it completely, down to the hand-hewn beams, and it now has a new roof. Phase two will follow later this year, if all goes well. I appreciate the support and interest more than you will ever know.
I will write again with more news before summer, since I also spent much of the winter finishing the book I've been working on, about painting on Bear Island, in Penobscot Bay. The book itself is done, and now I'm doing some final housekeeping chores related to it. I hope to self-publish copies in July. Please stay tuned for more news about that, keep an eye out for crocuses - any day now! - and take care, in the months ahead.
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