Shana Aldrich
Shana Aldrich, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate who grew up in Kennebunkport, studied fashion design and worked in fashion for 7 years in New York and Boston. Having returned to Maine to work with her family at the Old Fort Inn, she has remained interested in the arts and now designs one of a kind hand crocheted scarves and vintage scarf tops. In addition to fashion design, Shana pursued carpet weaving and collage. In particular, her collage work has won several awards both at RISD and at the Kennebunk River Club art shows.
Jayne Adams
Jayne Adams is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a BFA in painting. She has been a visual artist since early childhood and was greatly influenced by her high school teacher, Robert Hughes. She lives a life of artistic discovery and exploration which is demonstrated in her strong figurative work in oil and experimental imagery in printmaking and paper.
Harley Bartlett
Harley Bartlett has painted the New England scene for the past twenty years. This native Rhode Islander, schooled at the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, brings a unique sense of craft and tradition to his landscape and coastal paintings.
Like many of his professional contemporaries, he reaches back beyond Contemporary and Modern styles to find inspiration in the Hudson River, Barbizon, and American Impressionism schools. Growing up on Nantucket, the paintings of the 17th century Dutch landscape artists played a central role in the development of Bartlett’s artistic vision. His interest in Maritime painting can also be traced to the English Coastal and Maritime painters of that period.
Bartlett currently exhibits his work in some of the most prestigious galleries on the East Coast. His paintings have been widely collected by private and corporate art collectors.
Karen Beaver
Karen Beaver (Mandan/Yup’ik) learned how to bead at age twelve from her Mandan/Hidatsa grandmother. Beaver combines traditions from the tundra and the Great Plains in her beaded mask compositions, in portrayals of famous Native Americans, and in her dynamic sculptures . Beaver, who works under the Lakota Shadows name, was represented in the Museum of American Design’s “Art without Reservation, 2” exhibit.
Christopher Becker
Christopher Becker received a BFA from Ohio University in 1992. After living abroad and having worked in New York City many years, he now lives in Kennebunkport, Maine where he also showcases his work at his gallery. While he photographs editorially for publications such as The New York Times and Down East Magazine he is widely known for his fine art photographs. Becker’s light painting work, produced during the night, incorporates darkroom techniques during the camera exposure itself, which can be up to 6 hours. His images of land and water scenes are intimate and peaceful, even haunting. Becker exhibits in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles and is part several private and corporate collections.
Paul Bonneau
Working in a plein air style, Paul’s paintings exhibit simplified forms and pushed color heightening the experience of the subject matter. Often referred to as a “colorist”, Paul’s work has been included in invitational shows at the New Bedford Art Museum, the Danforth Museum, the Barn Gallery, the Irvine Gallery and the Judi Rotenberg Gallery, in Boston and in the collection of the Maine Turnpike Authority. He is represented by the Mast Cove Gallery, in Kennebunkport, ME and the Fore Street Gallery, in Portland, ME.
Paul has studied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Heartwood School of Art and the University of Massachusetts, and has participated in the PBS Television, Maine College of Art, Cape Elizabeth Land Trust and Laudholm Farm Trust benefit auctions.
Todd Bordeaux
Todd Bordeaux (Sicangu Lakota), carries on traditions he learned from his father (Ted Bordeaux) as well as his partner (Karen Beaver) through his national award-winning art. Originally recorded on a buffalo hide, Bordeaux conveys Lakota history through exquisite beaded story sticks. Bordeaux, who works under the Lakota Shadows name, was represented in the Museum of American Design’s “Art without Reservation, 2” exhibit.
Mary Byrom
Mary Byrom is a classically trained international award winning designer and fine artist. She has won awards for sculpture, package design and painting. She paints en plein air in oil and watercolor media year round through out the United Sates. She is an acclaimed children’s illustrator, sketch book artist and landscape painter. Mary is a member of Oil Painters of America and has participated in solo and groups shows throughout the United States and Europe. She maintains a studio and home in North Berwick, Maine.
John Caggiano
An artist member of many organizations, Mr. Caggiano has served as President of the Rockport Art Association and had been a member of its Board of Governors for sixteen years. Both he and his award-winning paintings have made appearances on nationwide television shows, and his art has also been featured in and graced the covers of numerous books, magazines and newspapers such as Marine Art: A Gallery of Marine Art, Monhegan: The Artists’ Island, The Best of Oil Painting and many others. He is represented worldwide in many private and corporate collections.
Mimi Gregoire Carpenter
Mimi Gregoire Carpenter’s muse is the ordinary scarred, stoic, Maine seashell – food for the gulls. Her detailed opaque watercolor paintings offer delicate portraits of Maine seashells, gathered and brought home from Goose Rocks Beach to her studio and given center stage. Imagine a moment on the beach, a childhood experience, a recent walk and respond to this rugged yet vulnerable environment, appreciating how magnificent even the most humble shell can be.
Lynne Blanchard Carr
A Plein-Air Artist working in oil medium, Lynne has been painting landscapes, seascapes and florals in this area since 1971. Growing her business at the “Sabaka-Carr Gallery” in the 1980’s and former Art Guild of the Kennebunks Member, the Framer’s Workshop Gallery currently exhibits her work. A member of Oil Painters of America, and past attendee of the Vermont Studio School, Lynne has a long history of exhibiting in many art festivals, does commercial work for brochures, and has illustrated a children’s book. Traveling abroad with her husband to wine destinations has expanded her visual scenery and has contributed to a passion for environmental issues and land conservation.
Anne Burnett
Painting “en plein aire” is a great joy to me. Though I enjoy the solitude and quiet of painting in my studio, there is nothing so rich and lively as to be immersed in the sights, smells, and sounds that swirl around while painting on location. Each painting becomes a “bookmark” of a life, a “thumbprint,” one passage of time, one location, one canvas, one story.
There are places I have driven by for twenty years when one particular day the ordinary is set apart from every other day, and the season, the light, the atmosphere move me to want to paint that subject. There is an immediacy and spontaneity to plein aire painting that is very exciting. With travel as a passion, I have found there is no better way to learn about a place and it’s people than by painting them on site.
Lucia deLeiris
Lucia deLeiris has painted landscapes in many areas of the world, including Europe, the Amazon, the Russian Arctic, and in the Antarctic. She was awarded the Antarctic Service Medal by the US Congress for her artistic work in Antarctica. Lucia has had solo exhibitions at many galleries and museums, including the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA, Arnold Art Gallery, and three times at the Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI.
Sandra L. Dunn
Sandra Leinonen Dunn is a painter as well as a published children’s book illustrator. Her paintings are exhibited in galleries throughout Maine, and she has a working studio at her home in Chelsea, Maine. Sandra has a BFA, and a BS in Art., and she has also studied at the Maine College of Art, the Boston Museum School, and Whitelands College in London, England. Ms. Dunn’s paintings have won numerous awards including Best of Show at the Maine Open Juried Art Show. Her work is in collections throughout the U.S., and Europe.
David Fouts
David Fouts is an impressionist painter in oil, using color and texture to tell the story of his art. Over the years he trained with many excellent artists and has developed a distinct and recognizable style of his own. His award winning paintings are held in collections across the nation and internationally. He maintains a winter studio in the Hudson Valley of New York and a successful gallery (Landmark Gallery) in Kennebunkport, ME.
Louise A. Frechette
Louise A. Frechette, P.S.A., is an internationally recognized artist serving as ambassador for the arts in three invitational exhibitions in the past four years, representing the United States in Italy, and Canada. She was the featured artist in the international publication the Pastel Journal Magazine, August 2008, the recipient of the prestigious Grumbacher Gold Medal National Award and forty-five awards in national, regional and state competitions in oils and soft pastels. Five, one-woman shows nationally from Maine to California in the past six years. Museum invitationals exhibitions include: the Presidential Library of George H. W.Bush, College Station, Texas; The Attleboro Museum and the Brickstore Museum. Her original work is carried nationwide in high-end galleries from California to Maine and in Montreal, Canada. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of New York, New York, and member of several other artists organizations.
Philip Frey
“My primary interest and enjoyment of painting is the endless beauty of color, light and movement of the Maine landscape. Equally significant, is a wish to invoke a sense of place and time that is unique to coastal life. These days, I am experimenting with limited color palettes and abstracting the landscape through using unconventional vantage points. From time to time, when I am fully enjoying the process of creating, one can see beyond the ordinary way of experiencing things – a little experience of the amazement of the unfolding of things. It seems to me, that it is this open perspective that helps me create a harmonious painting that the viewer can enjoy as beautiful.”
Paul Carter Goodnow
Paul Carter Goodnow was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1958. A painter, carver, and gilder, Paul studied gilding in Boston with Nils Johnson. He took classes in oil painting in Providence, at The Rhode Island School of Design and Providence Art Club, and later with John Loughlin. Paul is an elected artist member of the following associations; The Rockport Art Association in Rockport, Massachusetts, The Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and The North Shore Art Association in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He is also a member of the Connecticut Pleine Aire Painters Society. Paul has won several awards for his oil paintings. His paintings and handcarved, goldleafed frames hang in many collections. He regularly participates in shows throughout New England and New York.
DeWitt Hardy
DeWitt Hardy studied at Syracuse University and is nationally known for his watercolors, drawings and set designs. He has had over 16 one man shows in NYC and has pieces in 35 museum collections including the Farnsworth, the Portland Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. He is an American Realist and a master of Wet on Wet technique.
William B. Hoyt
Growing up, Hoyt didn’t have to go far to be exposed to art. His mother was a professional portrait painter, working often at home in their dining room, and his father was a professional photographer. He was encouraged from an early age to indulge his inclination toward drawing, and taught how to take pictures and develop and print the results. Hoyt majored in fine art and studied under Swell Sillman and Richard Lytle at Yale. He later spent a few years in the Navy stationed in Italy where he was able to paint, doing portraits of two admirals and a portfolio of 25 paintings of “fleet activities.”
Gretchen Huber-Warren
Gretchen Huber Warren has sold over 900 paintings to collectors and corporations worldwide. Her artwork is currently on display in several galleries and exhibited in juried shows. In addition to gallery exposure Gretchen’s images have been licensed to several companies and published in books and magazines. Gretchen’s painting style has several distinguishing features, vibrant colors, brilliant light effects, clarity of line and form. These features combined with an illustrators eye, give her paintings a certain presence and immediacy that capture the viewers attention and tell a story.
Stapleton Kearns
A master craftsman, Stapleton Kearns is a firmly established contemporary American Artist. He is a lavish and eccentric individual with high standards of professional integrity who will not skimp on time or detail in his work. “If it isn’t and A then it is not art.” Having been a part of R H Ives Gammell’s atelier in Boston in the 1970’s, his home is in New England.
Stapleton Kearns is an elected member of the Guild of Boston Artists. For five years he served as president of the Rockport Art Association. He is a member of the New England Plein Aire Painters.
Berri Kramer
Berri Kramer received a BFA in Design and Crafts from Kent State University and an MA in Fiber Arts from Lesley University. Her respect for the environment provides the illuminating and emotional truths that are the inspiration for her paintings.. She founded Heartwood College of Art 17 years ago and is its current President.
David Lussier
David Lussier’s plein air landscapes reflect an interest in strong Impressionistic brushwork and the value relationships of color, as influenced by Robert Henri, George Bellows and Emile Gruppe. The rhythm established in Lussier’s paintings by bold thick strokes of pain brings the surfaces to life and beg the viewer to return for a second look. Trained as a commercial illustrator he realized early in his career that his real passion was found in painting the rural New England landscape found outside his front door. Lussier is an artist almost entirely devoted to plein air painting. Studio paintings are always done from a combination of pencil sketches, oil sketches and notations completed on location.
Lussier’s award winning paintings hang in numerous private and corporate collections and are increasingly being sought after by collectors from New York to California and abroad.
Leonard Mizerek
Known for his colorful, luminous seascapes and expressive brushwork, Mizerek paints on site, deriving inspiration from the many nearby coastal locations as well as harbors throughout the world. A central theme throughout his work is his use of light. In Mizerek’s words, “Light alters the color of all objects and touches those nearby. It sets a mood and evokes emotion, which I strive to portray in my work. I often explore various methods to interpret the way I view nature. I prefer marine subjects because I enjoy the way water reflects the objects floating as well as the sky and time of day.”
Craig Mooney
Craig Mooney paints semi abstract oil paintings of figures, city scenes and landscapes. His work is represented by major galleries in cities throughout the country including Boston, NYC, Atlanta, and CA. A native New Yorker , Mooney’s roots in art go back to his youth. The artist lived and worked in New York and London working with the Academy Award winning filmmakers, Merchant Ivory (Remains of the Day). Mooneys work is widely collected and sought after, and is included in important collections of Cornell and Tufts University among many others. Recently, Mooney’s work was included in the Brucennial, an offshoot to The Whitney’s Biennial, which was curated by Vito Schnabel. The artist maintains a studio in Vermont where he devotes himself solely to creation of his work.
Stefan Pastuhov
Throughout the four seasons, each sight I paint offers an individuality and uniqueness special to the state of Maine. The fact that I paint outside on location makes each day new. Be it overcast or sunny, snowy or green, ablaze with fall colors or barren of leaves, every location I paint is constantly in change. With this continual flux I am able to paint a number of paintings in each spot, every work attaining an individuality all its own. The intellectual challenge of designing each piece and then undertaking its construction is very meaningful to me as an artist. Capturing the sparkling light of late afternoon or the reflections in a rushing stream will always excite my senses. Last but not least, being in the great outdoors every day, the fresh air, and an occasional long hike to a remote location is my inspiration to work.
Suzanne Payne
Suzanne Payne is a graduate of Boston University School of the Arts where she received her BFA in painting. She is highly inspired by nature and works in both pastel and oil. She is known for her vivid landscapes of the local area as well as emotional portraits of domestic animals.
Dennis Rafferty
Dennis is proud to have joined in the tradition of the many artists who have visited and painted the beautiful vistas that Maine has to offer. In that time he has learned the colors and subtleties of the state through workshops done with Caleb Stone and Guy Corriero. Dennis has also studied with Steve Quiller of Creede, Colorado and Mel Stabin. He teaches art privately and this past Fall semester a beginning Watercolor Class at Heartwood College of Art in Kennebunk, Maine. Dennis is a member of the Art Guild of the Kennebunks.
Carol Sebold
Carol Sebold lives on the coast of Maine, surrounded and inspired by some of the world’s most breathtaking scenery. Her watercolors of coastal fishing villages and their boats, as well as her evocative landscapes of the New England countryside speak of the singular beauty of this corner of the world. More atmospheric than realistic, Carol’s watercolors begin with sketches and photographs done on location. Later, employing a wet technique on rag paper, she develops them into full-blown paintings. Her fragile brushwork, created through a delicate building of thin layers of watercolor, suggests the impressionistic while subtley retaining a quality of nature.
Kelly Jo Shows
Kelly Jo Shows is a graduate of the Art Institute of Houston and honed her art practice in San Francisco before moving to Maine in 2001. Her paintings in both oil and acrylic are a reflection of her surroundings, a visual diary, a state of mind. She is well known for her personal and quirky portraits of animals whom she has met around town.
Don Stone
Known for the luminosity in his paintings, Don Stone believes it is not the subject that is important as much as it is the effect of the light under which it is painted. Don currently lives both on Monhegan Island, Maine and Exeter, New Hampshire. During his lifetime, he has been deeply involved with the fisher people and their livelihood. Now, as a mature artist while on Monhegan Island, he has the opportunity to portray this involvement to the fullest.
A retrospective of his work was recently exhibited at the Boston Guild of Artists.
Don is a member of the most prestigious organizations in America including the National Academy of Design as an Academician (NA), the American Watercolor Society as a Dolphin Fellow, ASMA Fellow and others. Winning more than 75 major awards, his work hangs in collections worldwide.
Anthony Watkins
A resident of Old Town, Maine, Anthony Watkins specializes in paintings of people and places seen under striking conditions of light and color. He studied painting with Lawrence Gluck in Los Angeles, CA and with Yves Brayer at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France. He has painted on location nationwide and has made painting trips to many countries, including Great Britain, France, Germany and Spain. His next solo exhibnit will be at Berkley Gallery in Warrenton, Virginia, and will include figurative and landscape paintings from coastal Maine and Amalfi, Italy.
Lyman Whitaker
Even at an early age, Lyman was involved in putting things together, such as designing and providing oversight in the building of the family hearth. His parents were very interested in arts and culture, and in that intellectual environment, he prospered. Lyman has over 40 years experience in sculpture. He graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Utah where he studied under Arvard Fairbanks and Angelo Carvaglia, learning classical sculpture techniques as well as contemporary design.
Susan Wilder
Susan Wilder is a graduate of Pratt Institute with a BFA in drawing. Her preferred painting subject is boats, “beautiful objects in themselves, compositions of line and color yet totemic, eloquent of the lives that used them, the people and place of their use and the centuries that have gone into their form.”
Wade Zahares
Wade Zahares is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is a fine artist and a children’s book illustrator. He takes his inspiration for his whimsical pastel landscapes from the rolling hills surrounding his farm and the wild creatures that live there. Wade’s work has been recognized by Time Magazine and the New York Times and is held in numerous collections including the DeCordova Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York.
