Artists

Kathleen Buchanan is a printmaker working primarily in the collagraph medium. Her work focuses on the landscapes and wildlife of Maine and western Ireland. Kathleen lives and works in Rockport, Maine.

All of my artwork is individually handcrafted out of cut pieces of fabric. Fabric can depict so much around us like water, trees, and other parts of nature.  I have always loved working with fabric and using it to create my pictures.

The composition of a painting is its most important technical aspect. The stronger the composition, the greater the impact. 

Chris Gray is an artist and musician hailing from Southwest Harbor, Maine. As an artist, his passion is for landscape and portrait painting in oils. 

Pam is an impressionist watercolorist who loves bold strong colors contrasted with subtle soft hues.  She employs painting many layers of washes while still maintaining translucency to capture the interplay of light and darks in her works.

Dianne Horton Dianne loves to paint outside on site where she can feel the ocean breeze and see the seagulls soaring above and pick a favorite spot right on the rocks to set up her watercolors.           

My most important aspect of plein air painting is outdoor light and my ability to paint it.

Denis begins his work by sketching, in detail with pencil. He then paints in watercolor, with a combination of techniques to achieve a strong image.

Linda Mahoney creates color woodblock prints using the Moku Hanga technique (Japanese watercolor woodblock print). She paints plein air watercolors mostly at Downeast and Grand Manan locations as studies for her prints.

Kaitlyn’s paintings explore magical moments within nature and how they are connected to the human experience. She focuses on not only the image being rendered, but the surface of the painting, integrating natural and unusual materials into each piece.

Using bold, rich, contrasting colors to convey a sense of space, time and atmosphere, Cynthia primarily works in pastels. She works plein air because there is no better model for a painting than the many wonderful views that Maine offers.

Rick Osann paints watercolor landscapes that feature the beautiful dance of light, color and shadow.

As I settle outdoors, gear ready, all goes away, calm takes over. The landscape, trees, roadside pic, working waterfront, a farm; I am privileged to bring to the canvas a sense of place I hope any viewer will enjoy.

I draw my inspiration from the world around me, exploring nature’s organic forms in a variety of media, particularly beeswax-based paints. Intrigued by color and shape, light and shadow and the dance they perform as they move in and out of space, I build up my paintings with many layers of vibrant color to create my visual interpretation of what I see and feel.

Judith’s style is loose and expressive, presenting familiar subjects in a fresh and interesting way. Clear, vibrant colors, active lines, and strong compositions express emotional connections in her pieces.

Light and color are elusive qualities, offering ever-changing patterns that vary with the movement of branches and shadows through the landscape, with the seasons, the time of day, and the weather.