Artists


	Dan Butler Dan Butler is, for the most part, self-taught and has been drawing and painting for as long as he can remember. Recently, Dan has worked primarily in colored pencil, ink and graphite, but he continues to experiment in water color and oil. Dan has won awards at juried shows and has pieces in varied private and corporate collections. He currently has work in The Eastport Gallery, Eastport, Maine. He has also exhibited work in Knott's (So Famous) Art Gallery of Eastport, Maine; ARTisZEN ARTS of Lambertville, New Jersey; Gallery 20, The Reading Public Museum, The Goggle Works, The RJCC Art Gallery and various smaller venues, all in the Reading, Pennsylvania, area. Dan also accepts commissions. Artist's Statements are commonplace in museums and galleries, but, to quote my favorite artist, Edward Hopper, 'If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.' E-mail: dano04631@live.com

		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: eyeofbeak@aol.com

	Renate Caraballo My work, both painting and sculptural, is always with an exploratory focus on underlying organic form through an expressive, abstract interpretation. I paint with the thought that the interests and influences that make me who I am should be allowed to seep into my work, and rely on a process of discovery that emerges through the work to lead the way. Techniques of abstract expressionism or conceptual art come most easily to negotiate the process, though influences of classic painters always find ways of creeping in. Much of my work is in oil or acrylic; I sometimes meander and experiment with collage and found objects and other methods that embed a sense of texture in surfaces characteristic of the random, chaotic, rhythmic quality of geological and organic layers. Along the same lines, it’s also about how the brushstroke itself can convey a sense of feeling and meaning, and impart the action of making art and/or painting to the viewer. I am a walker-of-woods-and-shore by nature, and have always been fascinated by textural/visceral surfaces, both microscopic and large-scale. I usually work in series which allows a gradual change to occur from one work to the next by developing the ‘language’ that emerges. Seemingly similar works change in subtle ways through a multitude of nuances. Often one series leads to another one with similar characteristics. A degree of complexity is possible when working in such a series that otherwise eludes me if working on only one piece. Working in series creates an ‘extended thought’, often continued over a long period of time. Perhaps this is just one way of getting by my reluctance to finish a painting and to begin another. As a child, my eyes were constantly looking for treasures; small stones, feathers, bits of this and that sometimes buried in the sand. Then, I wanted to become an archeologist and discover lost civilizations. Now, as an adult, my discovery is by making art and finding the paintings hidden in the canvas. By extension of my paintings, the organic form is also embodied in the bowls made from concrete and papier mache. A fascination with fossils, as well as the rugged textural aspects of the Maine coastline influences the construction of these bowls. The concrete bowls are hand-cast in sand, each with its unique impressions of leaves, ferns, pine needles or other natural elements with particular care being taken to capture and reveal the delicate lines or striations of each leaf. Bowls are also constructed from a prepared papier clay that results in a strong and durable bowl. Handmade papers, sea glass, stones, and natural objects are embedded. Renate grew up in Germany and Chicago, earned a Master’s degree in Education with a focus on Art and Writing from the University of Maine, and happily taught elementary art for many years. She teaches drawing at Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor. Her work has been shown in galleries and venues across the state, as well as at the CMCA in Rockport, Maine, and her work is in many private collections. E-mail: renatecaraballo@yahoo.com Web Site: http://www.RenateCaraballo.com

		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 The primary motivation for me as an artist is the creative process itself. I am continually fascinated with the potential of an artistic idea, a creative concept. A new electric ceramic glaze technique can stimulate me to try that same technique in a Raku glaze firing. What would my Raku masks look like if they were done in glass? After seeing a show on Altered Books, I immediately wanted to try making Raku Paperclay pages and put them into an Altered Book. Sometimes, it feels like a bag of popcorn is going off in my head. I need a lot of time to try to complete at least a few of the kernels of ideas. Like the artist, Beatrice Wood, I need to live to 105 years of age. Web Site http://www.farnarts.com E-mail: rakuart@myfairpoint.net

	Susan Ferro Why do I paint? Because Susan - plus paint - plus paper - makes my spirit rock! What draws me to a subject is the feeling it has, the composition possibilities and the light. I begin by going on photo shoots, to the shore, the blueberry barrens, garden or kitchen and compose with my camera, covering my subject from different angles and being aware of what the subject is saying. In the studio, I make a new composition by looking at several views, cropping and sketching thumbnails, with attention to design and value. When I have things the way I like them, I move to the painting, with the basic idea to start. From that point on the process is boss and I am guided by the meditation. Web Site: http://www.susanferro.com E-mail: suzemoon@myfairpoint.net

	Gary Guisinger I have been involved with photography for over forty years. My career path has taken me from The Associated Press and the Rocky Mountain News to free lancing for publications such as National Geographic, The New York Times, and many corporate magazines. The work gave me the opportunity to travel to many places around the globe, and that experience has been invaluable. The subject matter included everything from paupers to presidents. Handling the personalities and situations that I found myself dealing with has shaped the outlook that I now draw upon for my art endeavors. I prefer not to limit my vision and continue to be interested by a variety of subject matter. While all of my new work is done using the digital process, I prefer to keep my photography as straight and honest as possible. I use photo manipulation software out of necessity, but limit it to things I would do in the darkroom of yesterday. I offer the print of the cans – shown here – as an example of how my mind operates. I invite you to explore more of my work and hope you enjoy it. E-mail: gguisinger@roadrunner.com

	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

	Roland LaVallee Roland LaVallee has been selling art in Eastport from his CROW TRACKS woodcarving studio gallery since 1983. With Internet marketing opportunities his work spans the globe with pieces in private collections from Maine to Singapore. 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 also produces acrylic paintings on pine board and he photographs his woodcarvings arranged in still life then manipulates them via computer software. Examples of his work can be seen through his website. He has been a member of the Eastport Gallery since 1985. Web Site: 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 increased. 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. Current preoccupations are street graffiti and Tarot cards. E-mail: d@dwl.bz

	Patricia Maimon-Music For more than 45 years I have been searching for my own 'unified field theory,' making quilts and costumes, dolls and - lately - ceramic sculpture. They are dialogs between hands and materials, between inner and outer, speaking in color and pattern, in shape and juxtaposition. They are visual languages that allow me to speak of what cannot be spoken in words. E-mail: pathm2@verizon.net

		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. Web Site: http://www.elizabethostrander.com E-mail: ostranderstudio@gmail.com

	Ann C. Rosebrooks I was always creative, first interested in dance, then, writing. When I was small I was fascinated with color and patterns. By the age of 14, I was seriously in art and began pouring over art books looking at artwork to see what made a piece worthy to view. By the time I could drive I went to as many art museums and shows as I could and soaked it all in my imagination. I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1970 with a B.F.A. in painting and I continued to paint through marriage, jobs, raising children. My artwork is inspired by my life and the events that take place around me. I paint from memory and often use fantasy and imagination to create a setting and to portray people. Over the years I have won many awards, had many solo shows and been included in juried, group and traveling exhibitions. Painting remains my focus but I do create collages, mixed media sculptural pieces, assemblage and drawings. Memberships include Arts Worcester, Worcester, Mass. The Mystic Arts Center, The National Association of Women Artists, New York, N.Y, Connecticut Women Artists, The Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Eastport Gallery. I exhibit my artwork through all these organizations and in invitational and juried exhibitions. I accept commissions. E-mail: nrose1@mindspring.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 Web Site: http://www.joanburgersiemart.com

	Cheri St.Germain 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: cheriwalton@roadrunner.com Blog: http://www.eastport.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