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Blue Hill Vistas
Exhibited May 22 to June 30, 2004
(Artists' Reception Sunday, June 6th, 5-7 pm)
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Sunlit Town
Copyright © Wini Smart
The Island
Copyright © Gail Cleveland
Beech Hill Blueberries
Copyright © Laura Tasheiko
Pumpkin Island
Copyright © Brad Betts
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Featured this spring at the gallery is an exhibition of paintings and photographs of Coastal Maine entitled "Blue Hill Vistas."
These artists live in coastal villages in Maine and have painted professionally for decades. Their experience of the diversity of coastal subjects and the play of light and fog is translated into realist, impressionist, and minimalist works that reflect each artist's unique vision.
Gudrun Kiefer Tarr paints serene minimalist works reflecting her experience of the ocean that surrounds her home and the divide between sky and sea while out sailing with her husband.
Laura Tasheiko paints vivid realist and impressionistic watercolors and acrylics, and specializes in Maine coastal scenes.
Brad Betts paints a variety of Maine landscape scenes and seascapes from his home in New Gloucester, Maine. His favorite subject is capturing the shadows, light, and colors that are created when waves meet Maine's dramatic shoreline.
Wini Smart lives on Great Cranberry and has been painting realist coastal scenes of Maine for over 40 summers. For the first time in her career, she spent the spring season painting wonderful scenes of Blue Hill village and surrounding area.
Wini's daughter, Gail Cleveland, spends her summer on Mount Desert Island and paints realist and impressionist landscapes of Acadia. A hiking enthusiast, Gail has painted large watercolors reflecting the picturesque beauty of the peninsula as seen from atop Blue Hill.
Bonnie Alpander, a plein air artist, loves to paint on location because of the intimate contact with nature that it provides. She often visits the Downeast coast to capture in watercolor its rocky shoreline and village scenes.
Margaret Mayer lives in the White Mountains, but visits Deer Isle in the summer and paints watercolors and pastels of the islands in the bay, especially at sunset.
Collectively these artists draw upon centuries of direct experience of the everchanging moods of Downeast Maine. Their original oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastel paintings will be on display from May 22nd to June 30th.
Please visit the gallery and meet the artists in person on Sunday, June 6th, 5-7 pm.
See the calendar for future exhibitions. |
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