Judith
Caden
I am a graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. with a M.F.A. degree in Printmaking and Sculpture.
As an art teacher in Jersey City, N.J. (K-8), I am most proud of the fact that in 2002 I received a Geraldine R. Dodge summer initiative grant for art teachers for $6,000.00.
This grant started me down a new path – going from sand casting in aluminum to casting in bronze. The pieces are made from found objects, plaster or clay before being cast in bronze.
Although past interests have involved printmaking and puppetry, my main interest at present is sculpture.
Whenever the opportunity presents itself, I can be found in my 20’ x 20’ log cabin in Pembroke Maine.
E-Mail: jcaden@jcboe.org
Sherry
Ashby Cunningham
I still remember when my great grandmother would hand me a large paint brush and a cup filled with water and food coloring instructing me to go “paint” the barn. It was magic to watch the color saturate the weathered cedar shingles and so mystifying when they returned gray once the “paint” had dried.
I would take to my swing on the maple tree my great grandmother had planted when she was a young bride. Feeling the motion of the swing, I would watch the clouds endlessly as they became creatures from my imagination.
Always aware of how the day felt and noticing the changes of light as the day changed, reflecting now it was meditation at its best.
Not much has changed since growing older though I have found a way to make the paint stay. My paintings are born of how I feel and what I see…as I delight in sometimes watching the paint become creatures from my imagination. For me art is often meditative, a way to renew and often very carthartic.
My work ranges from realism to free flowing and intuitive and I choose from a broad range of mediums.
Born in Lubec, my formal art training began in 1993 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After a summer session at La Napoule Art Foundation in the South of France in 1995, I returned to Umass for one more semester, but wander lust had set in.
Leaving school to meander around the country proved to be very soul satisfying but when the craving for a plot of earth to grow a garden became overwhelming, it was time for a more settled lifestyle.
Back to my native roots I am a wife, a mother, a gardener and always an artist.
My work available at the Eastport Gallery, Northern Tides Gallery in Lubec, and at the Phish Net Café in Machias
Email: sherry_ashby04652@yahoo.com
Marlys
Farn-Guillette
Marlys Farn-Guillette was born and raised in Saskatchewan, Canada, and now resides in Calais, Maine. Involved in the arts for over twenty years, she has two degrees from the University of Saskatchewan: a Bachelor of Arts Advanced, with a double major in Visual Arts and English, and a Bachelor of Education Degree. She taught high school art for several years.
Marlys works in Raku pottery, porcelain clay bodies, and paints in oils, oil bars and acrylic.
She has “experimented” with stained glass, has “recreated” old pieces of furniture, and loves salvaging old architectural pieces, incorporating them into wall hanging display pieces.
Her paintings have ranged from “Visionary” landscapes to environmental themes, with the sky and water a major influence or muse throughout. The Raku pieces range from fish, dragonflies, wall plaques and masks, and she often explores that medium with materials, mixed into or on the glazes, from glass beads, silver scraps, to copper wire. Wizards and mermaids are subject matter often used in the porcelain clay or low-fired clay bodies.
E-mail: rakuart@myfairpoint.net
June
Hallowell
June is the mother of Five, grandmother of eight and great grandmother of one. She has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil and painting seriously for more than thirty years.
She is mainly self- taught aside from some college courses and study with local artists.
June was born and raised in Dennysville Maine, and has worked as an Emergency Medical Technician and as a worker and a supervisor for the Department of Human Services, retiring in 1989.
She went back to college in the 70's, graduated from the University of Maine at Machias with a B.S. in Education and from the University of Maine in Orono in 1983 with a M.S. in Education.
"I love watercolors. I love to see what water does - You can never guess what the end result may be. It's a medium full of surprises and happy mistakes."
June's work can be found in area banks and businesses and in private collections. She is also available to do commissions.
E-mail: jhallowell@wwsisp.com
JoAnne
Houlsen
I have lived and painted in Maine for the past thirty years. After growing up in a congested, inner-city area of Boston, a weekend trip to Maine changed my life. I became deeply attracted to the openness of the Maine landscape and have made it a primary focus in many of my oil paintings. Recently, I began working in egg tempera, a medium I find as intriguing, in many ways, as oil paint. .
As a painter I am interested in the texture that can be created by various methods of applying paint to a surface, and how color and light can appear to change the surface being worked on. There is a point of departure in a painting where both painter and viewer can move from the surface of the painting and enter into the work. Here the nuances of color and light will sometimes evoke a thought or mood that allows the imagination to explore the painting. Each viewer leaves the work with a different impression of the world that the artist has created, and there is a hope that a connection has been made which reveals a common strand of our humanity.
To me that connection has a very special power.
My interest and education in art began at an early age. At nine years old, I set up my first "studio" in our basement and made pastel drawings from pictures of Audubon birds and portraits from pictures of models in magazines. I attended the Museum School's program for children on Saturday mornings and spent many hours wandering through the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. As a young adult I took adult education classes in painting, pottery and sculpture and had the good fortune to take additional classes at the Museum School. A short time after moving to Maine, I enrolled at the University of Maine and earned a B.S. in Education and a B.A. in Studio Art. I now work out of my studio in Bangor.
E-mail: joannechoulsen@hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.joannehoulsen-oilpaintings.com
Martha
Howbert
Currently I live in Downeast Maine in the small city of Eastport on Moose Island at the edge of the Bay of Fundy. I spend my winters in a remote refuge near the Suwannee River in Florida. Formerly I lived on Cape Cod where I trained as a biological illustrator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and started the graphics and silk screen business, Howlingbird Studio in Falmouth.
I graduated with an art major from Colorado College in Colorado Springs and studied life sculpture at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts and printmaking at the Swain School in New Bedford, Mass.
I have an attraction to rusty scrap steel. A shape or texture often will launch me into a piece perceived from nature or the figure. Older more pitted steel will hold color and create a textured rich patina..
I show my work at the Eastport Gallery in Maine, The Giving Tree Sculpture Garden in Sandwich, Mass and the Cedar Key Art Center in Florida.
E-mail: mhowbert@yahoo.com
Web Site: http://www.howbertsculpture.com
Johndavid
Kennedy
Having chewed off the shackles of commercial photography, moving to Maine has allowed the time and space to let me and my cameras follow our bliss in large format black and white.
I generally work in large format with a lightweight 4/5 wooden field camera.
I prefer the versatility of black and white to color, and working in the darkroom gives me something to do on rainy days.'
E-mail: mobyblue22@yahoo.com
Viki
Kennedy
Viki was born in and raised in New York City. She attended the University of Southern California to study filmmaking and animation. Her work in that field includes work on Sesame Street and 40 films for children including an award winning children's film at the Atlanta Film Festival
Twenty years ago while traveling throughout the U.S., Viki turned from filmmaking to wood burning, and began honing her craft as an artist of the natural and mystical world. Later she added color to her palette and began painting. She has also completed illustrations for several books; a spoof on bomb shelters, an autobiography of a death row inmate, a series of children's books on ecology and the environment and a book of fairy tales for adults called "Breath Deeply".
Eight years ago she settled on a hilltop in northern Maine and helped to form the Houlton Center for the Arts. Viki finds inspiration for her work in the natural world around her and painting the spirit of towns which have become dear to her in her new home of Maine.
On the web: http://www.vikikennedy.com
E-mail: mobyblue22@yahoo.com
Roland
LaVallee
Roland LaVallee established a presence in the Eastport, Maine area in 1977. A refugee from suburban Connecticut Roland found the freedom of wild eastern Maine very attractive. He has always been fond of woodcraft, and whittled away many hours while growing up, Roland did not take woodcarving as a serious method producing income until 1982, while he was living in Charlotte Maine.
Marketing his work for 20 years on a part-time basis while taking care of family responsibilities, Roland now produces his artwork full-time and offers his work to the public through the Eastport Gallery and the CROW TRACKSTM woodcarving studio.
The subject matter of his woodcarvings includes human figures, birds, animals, reptiles, and whimsical driftwood pieces. Most pieces are carved from Maine white pine or basswood and are painted with non-toxic acrylic colors. The bird carvings that Roland produces feature handmade legs and feet fashioned from copper wire and nylon thread. Special care is give to the task of accurately carving in the eyes. Through experience he now produces work of a small scale, much of which fits comfortably on a widow ledge or shelf.
Roland has worked to obtain an Associates Degree of Applied Science with a major in Small Business Management from the Washington County Technical College in Calais, Maine in 1999. He also earned a Phi Theta Kappa Society All Maine Academic Team award in 1999. He has been a member of the Eastport Gallery since 1985.
On the web: http://www.crowtracks.com
E-mail: crowtracks1@msn.com
David
Lewis
I grew up in a household with film cameras and a darkroom. Developing and printing black and white images was an exciting alchemy. I also took a child’s delight in fooling around with masking, dodging, double exposures and other image manipulations.
My RISD education gave me good priming in two and three dimensional design. Over the years I had a variety of film cameras and had experience with working with professional architectural photographers.
When I got my first digital camera I felt back in control of the whole process and my delight in image making returned.
A collage workshop inspired me to begin physically working with my printed images and I started experimenting with transparency and layering, cutting, pasting and painting and even sewing.
I often modify the base images in Photoshop, but for the moment I prefer to do the collage work hands-on.
E-mail: d@dwl.bz
Blog: www.205waterstreet.blogspot.com
Patricia
Music
We are surrounded by cloth from the moment we are born. Cloth is not merely an inanimate material in the service of humans; it is alive and active even when it is transformed into objects.
There has always been a material, emotional, and spiritual, relationship between women and cloth. Working with fabric and needle was often the only way women could connect to themselves and each other, to their families, and to the times in which they lived.
Cloth speaks the stories of women and their worlds saying in color and pattern, shape and juxtaposition what cannot be said in words.
I am a self-taught fiber artist, working 35 years as a cloth carpenter. In these years I have learned the language of cloth but find that I am not the master of the medium but the midwife. The pieces are never what I set out to do; the results may seem less than I tried for but in a mysterious way they are more.
I have shown in group and one woman shows in Massachusetts, Georgia, Colorado, Nebraska and Tennessee.
E-mail: pathm@myfairpoint.net
David
Orrell
A native New Englander, David Orrell is a graduate of the School of the Worcester Museum and Clark University
His painting style is rather eclectic as is his choice of subject matter.
His work includes portraits, landscapes, studies of his Maine coastal surroundings and highly personal and inventive figural compositions.
E-mail: davidorrell@mac.com
Elizabeth
Ostrander
Peaceful and restorative are words frequently used to describe my art.
Sculptures, paintings, and collages reflect my personal dialogues between humankind, nature, and spirit.
Art is my life’s journey. Mystical expressions found through living, meditation, and grace. Art becomes my longing for hope and joy in a world so often besieged by sorrow and confusion.
From my New York roots to a life in coastal rural Maine a unique art path has unfolded before me and created my distinctive style.
I began my formal art training studying sculpture with Jose DeCreeft in New York City in the 1960’s. I then went on to study at New York City’s Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture. Later I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Maine.
On the web: http://www.ostranderart.com
E-mail: ostranderstudio@gmail.com
Joan
Burger Siem
Studies: BA, MA, Stanford University, Palo Alto California - Studied painting / printmaking under Nathan Olivera at Stanford - MFA, San Jose State College, San Jose. California, Painting
Taught: Sønderjylland Art Academy, Denmark - University of Maryland, European Division - Received “Stanford University Outstanding Teacher Award” for teaching Art
Publications: Smithsonian Institution (Botanical drawings) - W. H. Freeman & Co., Madison Ave. N. Y. - (Paintings on book covers) - Art Forum, Book Club’s Art Publishing - Book Clubs New Books, Norway - “Artist’s From Akershus”, Norway - “Norwegian Graphic Artists Today” Tanum-Norli Publishing, Norway
Represented in Official Collections: The Norwegian Cultural Council (Norsk Kulturråd) Norway - The City of Oslo, Norway - Akershus County, Norway - Bærum County, Norway - Eidsvoll Art Association, Norway - Sandefjord Art Association, Norway - Sandefjord - Art Association, Norway - Bergen Art Center, Norway - Drammen Art Association, Norway - The Norwegian National Bank, Norway - SAS Hotel, Oslo, Norway - Bergen Bank, Norway - Aker Hospital, Oslo, Norway - Travaste Hus, Finland - The City of Linkjøping, Sweden - The Swedish Government, Sweden - The Culture House Collection, Nykøping, Denmark - Aabenraa Art Association, Denmark - Sønderborg Art Assocation, Denmark - Norborg Art Association, Denmark - Skovbø Art Association, Denmark - Robe Art Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan - Gallery Denega, Hirosaki, Japan - Gallery ONO, Hachinohe, Japan
Exhibited: Stanford University Gallery, Palo Alto, California - San Jose State Gallery, San Jose, California - New Art in Oslo, The Edvard Munch Museum, Norway - Norwegian Graphic Artists, The Edvard Munch Museum, Norway - International Woman’s Year Exhibit, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway - Graphic exhibit, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway - Norwegian Graphic Gallery, Oslo, Norway - Gallery 1, Bergen, Norway - Gallery F 15, Moss, Norway - Henie-Onstad Art Museum, Norway - Travasta Art Museum, Finland - Gamla Gillet, Uppsala Sweden - International Gallerie D’Art, Geneva - Mini-Print International, Spain - Dansk Kunstforening, Flensborg, Germany - Museum at Sonderborg Castle, Denmark - Sonderjylland Art and Culture Center, Denmark - The Culture House, Nykobing, Denmark - Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska - Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine - The Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Mo - The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph, Mo. - Develin Gallery, New York City, NY - Gallery Denega, Hirosaki, Japan - Gallery Nabis, Tokyo - Carriage House Gallery, Guilford, Connecticut - “Dialogue” with Elizabeth Ostrander Aug. 2007 JB Siem Gallery, Maine - “Coloratura” 2007, 2008 with Elizabeth Ostrander, Joan Steinman, and Carol Crump, JB Siem Gallery, Maine - The Eastport Gallery, Maine 2007, 2008 - Machias Bay Chamber Concert Series Exhibit with Elizabeth Ostrander, Machias, Maine 2008 - ”The 19th Annual Maine Juried Art Show” Sponsored by Colby Museum of Art - The Blue Marble Gallery (Awarded 3rd Place prize) Waterville, Maine April 2009 - The Eastport Gallery, June 2009 - Bay Chamber Concert Series Exhibit, Machias, Maine, July 2009 - The Blue Marble Gallery, Waterville, Maine, Summer 2009
Email: joansiem@yahoo.com
Frank
Sullivan
A native of Massachusetts, Frank Sullivan began drawing obsessively at a very early age. He earned a B.A. in Visual Arts from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA where he studied drawing and printmaking under Elizabeth Peak. He was awarded a fellowship to the graduate program at the American University but left after his first semester to pursue a career in music.
Ten years later, he returned to visual arts, enrolling in and completing the graphic design program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, focusing on integrating illustration and drawing with design. While working full-time as a graphic designer and illustrator, he began working in pastels and teaching himself how to paint in oils.
In January 2006 he relocated to northern Maine to devote himself full-time to his art. He currently operates Rainbarrow Studio in a renovated potato house in Littleton where he displays his work and offers classes and private instruction in drawing and painting. He has won numerous awards for his work and serves on the board of the Southern Aroostook Cultural Arts Project.
E-mail: frank@rainbarrow.net
Web: http://rainbarrowstudio.blogspot.com/
Joyce
Tulis
Weber
Joyce Tulis Weber began drawing and painting in her 30's and studied at Antioch College and the Maryland Institute in Baltimore. For a time she maintained a studio in Ellicott City, Maryland and showed and sold her work throughout the Baltimore area. But in 1983, she and her husband, Paul, stumbled upon Eastport and fell in love with its wild charm, bought a much-too-large Victorian house and abandoned family, friends and urban life for the adventures of living in an isolated, 19th century island city. In the interim, a host of entrepreneurial ventures and avocations have posed strong competition to studio time, and Eastport has become a thriving arts community.
Now free of various long-standing commitments, Joyce is once again focused on painting. She persists in the belief that, for her at least, the secret to understanding the organic, creative mystery of life may one day reveal itself through the act of painting shapes and colors on a canvas. In her later years, she is finding great satisfaction in the pursuit of this mystery. She works primarily with oil paints, but also with oil pastels, pen and pencil.
E-mail: jpweber@roadrunner.com
Sharon
Weir
Sharon, a summer resident of Perry, is a traditional watercolor painter who also works in pastels, acrylics and printmaking. She began painting in the mid-eighties in Massachusetts and studied watercolor with Barbara Donnelly, a noted North Shore artist. She completed courses in watercolor, pastel and printmaking at Montserrat College of Art and participated in workshops with the Rockport Art Association and Portland School of Art in Maine.
In 1997 Sharon became a member of the North Shore Arts Association in Gloucester; as a member of the Guild of Beverly Artists she has received awards for her work in watercolor, pastel, acrylic, printmaking and photography.
Sharon has exhibited in a number of local businesses and galleries in Massachusetts as well as the Eastport Gallery.
E-mail: samsawl@msn.com
Diana
Young
I have been an artist as long as I can remember and have painted in many media.
At an early age I loved to draw and was praised for all my efforts. This encouragement set me on the path of my vocation and the criticisms of teachers in later years bounced off my cheerful certainty.
I have thrived for the last 30 years in Maine; thanks go to a generous mate, clean air and to an absence of the kind of population pressure that destroys self esteem through crushing anonymity.
The seasons influence my work and in summer I both draw and paint outdoors.
The pen takes me in hand and leads me in a dance which leaves my feet amazed. With a lasso of line I can possess anything I like and if one draws a landscape, a deed to that property is unnecessary.
Color is the food of the immaterial world; it doesn't come as easily as line but I can't leave it alone either as it is too engaging. While painting I forget myself, any gripes or griefs, and become one with the scene.
Certain gesture sketches of people evolve better for me as cut-outs rather than as paintings. Recently I bought a scroll saw and have made a series of raised wood figures. These and other imaginative works are my winter occupation.
I am represented by the Eastport Gallery, the Court House Gallery in Ellsworth and the Landings Gallery in Rockland.
E-mail: dinnyyoung@aol.com