Artists

	Leslie Bowman The images that I have created during the past thirty years are reflections of my looking at the world downeast. They come with few or no words. I spend a good bit of time in Bangor now working for a new magazine, Bangor Metro. My heart remains back in Washington County, but I feel that I must learn some new skills and make links to a larger community that will better serve my vision for a future in Washington County. Visit my on-going work at http://www.bowmanstudio.net E-mail: lbowman@maineline.net

Lisa Marquis-Bradbury Lisa developed an artistic nature growing up in and around Woodstock, NY. She spent several years in France and then finished high school in Raleigh, NC. After receiving a business degree, with a minor in Fine Arts, from East Carolina University, Lisa went to work for a small hand -made furniture company in North Carolina and built furniture for 14 years. All the while she was painting and taking art classes so that when the furniture company closed in 1996 she launched a career as a muralist and decorative painter in the Triangle area of North Carolina. She did this successfully until she and her husband decided to move themselves and their 4 children to Eastport in 2003. Lisa is a new member of the Gallery and also operates Eastport Antiques on Water Street. She has a special passion for painting Eastport. Email: bradbury@ptc-me.net

	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.

	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@verizon.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: marty@howbertsculpture.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

Rabee Kiwan I was born in Lebanon in 1978, amidst the rage of the civil war. I grew up drawing with pencil on everything I could lay my hand upon; the walls, the tables, the floors... I started experimenting with oil and watercolors when I was around ten. I helped my father write a book series about different painting media. However, after I started medical school, I had to stop painting so I could study and work to support myself and my family. I came to Cincinnati to pursue my post-graduate medical training. There I met Bruce Neville and started painting with him in the Pendelton Center. He was more like a guide than a teacher. My best teacher was the Cincinnati Public Library. I used to spend hours on weekends just studying art from different books. Now, in Downeast Maine, I am pursuing my career both as an internist and as an artist. Email: rabeekiwan@yahoo.com Blog: www.rabea-kiwan.blogspot.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: crowtracks@crowtracks.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@localnet.com

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

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/

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: ostranderart@verizon.net

Cheri Walton Cheri Walton is a native of Bangor, Maine and has lived in the state most of her life. She received a B.A. in 1967 and began a career as a psychiatric social worker. Twenty years later, after having two children, she returned to the University of Maine to study art. Drawing and painting had always been a serious hobby, and she wanted to learn more about it. She studied under Michael Lewis and James Linnehan, among others, and earned the credits for three degrees in Studio Art, Art History, and Art Education. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and won many awards, scholarships, and prizes as a student. She has also been very active in community art organizations, serving as an officer in many of them. She was president of the Bangor Art Society for several years. While still a student, Cheri began to teach painting and printmaking on her own. She now holds workshops and classes throughout New England. She is represented by three galleries and is listed in the last two issues of Who's Who of American Women. Cheri"s work ranges from the traditional to the experimental and she works in a number of different mediums. The process of making art is always foremost in her mind, and the finished product is merely the product of that activity. Cheri's work is autobiographical, bold, often humorous, and always intellectual. E-mail: cheriwalton1@verizon.net Blog: www.eastport.blogspot.com

Joyce Weber Joyce Weber began drawing and painting thirty years ago. She has studied at Antioch College and the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore. Before moving to Eastport, she maintained a studio in Ellicott City, Maryland and showed and sold her work throughout the Baltimore area. She and her husband, Paul, stumbled upon Eastport in 1983, 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, nineteenth-century island city. A host of avocations such as running a B&B and numerous community commitments have since posed strong competition with studio time. However, Joyce continues to find life's greatest challenge, and joy, in juggling colors and shapes on a canvas. She often works from the figure, but whether a figure or a bowl of fruit, her interest is in light and the dynamics of shapes and colors. Oil paint is her primary medium, but works also with pastel, oil sticks, pen and pencil. She persists in the belief that the secret to the organic mystery of life may one day reveal itself in shapes and colors on a canvas, but, in the meantime, she will be content with the more ordinary struggle of making them "work" within the boundaries of her self-imposed frame. E-mail: jpweber@ptc-me.net

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