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Always call me ahead 522 7325 if you plan on coming to The Gallery just to make sure Im available to open up.



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​                      Past Exhibitions
                                        May Show
              A Two person show by artists Howard Solomon and David Matson
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Yellow ribbons for our loved ones

​An exhibit created by mother-daughter team to bring awareness and a human face to the hostages held in Gaza since October 7th 2023
 


​'Two Views'
Jane Davis

Photography is for me is creative expression, but it is also a way to slow
down, observe and appreciate the world around me. Landscapes, close-
ups, family and abstract experiments have all been part of my journey, but
I’ve been increasingly drawn to still life photography.
I like wandering the fields and woods of my neighborhood, observing the
small and intriguing details. Bits of nature that I collect on my rambles
suggest stories. Back at home, I combine nature’s wild gifts and gifts from
my garden with everyday or time-worn objects that acknowledge the
human presence. Shapes, color, textures and the magic of light all play a
part as I try to convey the emotion or mood of this newly created small
world.
In my practice of photography, I have benefitted from studying the work of
painters as well as photographers. I have learned through workshops with
Freeman Patterson in New Brunswick, Andre Gallant, Allen Rokach at
Maine Media Workshops, and Chuck Haney in Montana. I have also
learned from fellow photographers at the First Light Camera Club. I have
been included in shows at various libraries, the Harlow Gallery, Thornton
Oaks Retirement Community, and several times at the Maine Photography
Show.
​Dr. Tamara E Blesh
Tamara has been experimenting with photography since her late teens followed up by earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in design and photography.  She went on for further education with degrees in video production, media, and instructional technology without ever losing her passion for documenting people, places, and things she encountered in her many years of travels. Her early works were mostly abstractions with an emphasis on cultural curiosities. 


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Lobster buoys as Art Benjamin Williamson
August/September at The Gallery
Larry Hayden is an artist and photographer living in Portland who has an extensive exhibition history
May At The Gallery
“As a photographer, I concentrate on the goings-on within the boundaries of our little urban farmyard. Originally a stock farm founded in the late nineteenth century comprising 130 acres situated on the banks of the Presumpscot River, it is now winnowed down to a Portland house lot of less than one acre. This is now my photographic territory, and I have spent  the past thirteen years exploring within its current confines. The present exhibition,'Wonders at Hand', presents some fellow occupants of our little homeland. These are not merely anonymous images of random animals in picturesque settings. The chickens are mine, they each have a name, a life story and a home in our barn. The frogs are Jules and Gem, who emerged from an egg mass in a nearby vernal pool and were raised in our frogpond. The Monarch butterfly grew from a caterpillar on the milkweed that grows outside my studio window, and lived among the towering Mexican Sunflowers in our flower garden. 
It is essential to me as an artist to have a living connection with the subjects of my photographs. I am honored to have forged ongoing partnerships with the creatures and beings that surround me, and I am delighted to share these images with others.” 
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“This is a photo of Jules, a Gray Tree Frog who made his home in my backyard pond. “

April 2024
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March 2024
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Dear Parents, Caregivers, and Members of the School Community:
It gives me (Jeremy Smith) great pleasure to announce the opening of an art exhibit of Honors Art Students’ work at The Gallery in Readfield.  
The opening reception will take place on Saturday, March 2 from 4-6 PM
As you may know, March is Youth Art Month and we are excited to show students’ work locally! The gallery show has been titled Beyond the Canvas and this title was chosen by a suggestion contributed by a student in class. We will soon design a gallery announcement card that we will have printed soon after vacation, letting others know about the show’s opening.  If you want to send it to friends and family members to spread the word about the show and opening, please do! 

I will likely be printing the attached card today! Feel free to share it with friends and loved ones.

In addition to the opening night on March 2, guests and the public can view Beyond the Canvas on a Saturday date/time to be determined soon. 

I am really impressed at the abilities, determination and work towards advancement as artists that I have observed in students attending my Honors Art courses this year.  Their creativity, cooperative attitudes and concentration in their study of the multiple art disciplines has been phenomenal.  I cannot wait to share their work with you on the opening date of March 2 and very much hope you are able to attend that event from 4-6 PM.  
The gallery is run by Camille Davidson, a distinguished member of the Readfield community.  We are truly lucky to have the ability to show student work there during the month of March.  

All my best,
Jeremy
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          November 2023 art show 
                                               Kat Logan
                                Peace all around me
November 17th Kat is offering a spirit painting class rsvp only and private psychic readings Nov17th and December 3rd RSVP only 522 7325
                          Past Exhibitions
                          'More than Words'    Cynthia Ahlstrin
​Many words are ephemeral but others thrive endlessly - I have a fascination with the
latter. My interest is held when certain groups of printed words on a page have the
ability to “jump” off that page, grab my attention and influence my visual process. I am
also interested in why particular adages are passed down from generation to
generation. Both of these phenomena have helped me to create a diverse body of work
where these words, my thoughts on women’s issues, 1950’s commercial art and fashion
meet at an interesting four-way intersection within my mind.
When making altered books I always repurpose discarded novels. During the process
of cutting pages away from the book block to create future “fabric”, I found that certain
words fearlessly jumped out and focused my attention on the violence perpetrated
against female characters. My thoughts on the prevalence of this violence have been
translated into a series of work fashioned to emulate 1950’s and 1960’s foundation wear
and boudoir apparel. This fashion genre is as beautiful as it is cage-like. Each piece
invites the viewer to find selected sentences or words illuminating this troubling pattern.
I have utilized the beauty of the structure to create a juxtaposition to the violence
expressed in the printed word. My hope is for the viewer to consider what issues
women experience in our current society.
My mixed media work takes on a lighter, more humorous tone when working with the
antiquated poem “Days of the Week”. Each of these pieces have been influenced in
some way by imagery popularized in 1950’s atomic art, women’s dress pattern
illustrations and commercial illustrations for the domestic arena. The solutions to each
day’s “domestic rule” are positive, comedic and purely from a woman’s point of view.
The illustrations on my “company aprons” represent just a few of my visual
interpretations of adages handed down from one generation of women in my family to
another.
Cynthia will be giving an artists talk about her amazing work and process on Saturday October 14th from 4-5 at The Gallery with tea and coffee and....

she is offering a fabulous artist’s book workshop on Sunday, October 15th at the Gallery in Readfield.  Cynthia Ahlstrin will be teaching students two different types of book forms. Come learn how to make a flutter book with traditional folding and tipping techniques enclosed in a Japanese style wrap cover and a bound “snowflake” artist’s book.  All materials will be provided.  Students are encouraged to bring their own X-Acto or craft knives if they have them.
Cost of Class: $65.00
Date of Class:  Sunday, October 15, 2023 
Time:  1:00PM – 5:00PM
Minimum 4 Maximum Number of Students: 8
Reserve your spot with a text to me 522 7325 and a payment

           Martha Miller  WOMEN OF COLOR Portrait Project
​                                     August1st-31st
                             Just a sampling on the website. There are 50 portraits all in all hanging in this exhibit

Artist statement
I dreamt that I was nursing a tiny, dark newborn baby. The baby latched
right on.
(Excerpt from my Dream Journal, February, 2021)
George Floyd’s murder and the rise of the BLM movement ignited in me a
deep desire to contribute somehow to this crucial cause. What could I, a
privileged middle class white woman, do about this? I prayed about it, using
one of Julia Cameron’s mantras:
“I am willing to let God create through me.”
(Cameron is the author of The Artists Way).
One of my gifts is drawing portraits. In making a portrait I lift an individual
up into the light to be recognized, to be seen. When Amanda Gorman
walked onto the Inaugural stage with her brilliant yellow coat and ballet
hands, I knew I had to draw her, and in so doing, she unlocked my prayer: I
knew what I could do. Her portrait was the beginning of this new series of
portraits, The Women of Color Project. I started creating a portrait a day in
late January, throughout February, which is Black History Month, and into
March, Women’s History Month.
I felt called to make this series. Typically I draw from life, but many of my
subjects are deceased or were not accessible. Even if I could have
travelled and had some of my subjects sit for me, Covid 19 made that
option prohibitive. I had to use photographs. I found photos of WOC to
work from on line; photos of living WOC like Amanda Gorman, and photos
of WOC who are now deceased. From these photos I worked in mixed
media to create 46 larger than life portraits of WOC artists, politicians,
abolitionists, musicians, poets, writers, actors and dancers, many of whom
are well known and many whom I’d never heard of. I posted the portraits
daily on my Instagram account along with information about each individual

that I’d garnered from my research. I wanted to amplify these beautiful,
brave, women’s voices. While working on the portraits, I often felt the
presence of each woman, as if I was channeling her spirit. I listened and
learned something powerful from my “sitters”, and it is my hope that their
voices will ring out and be heard by all who view their portraits.

Martha Miller
June, 2021

Martha Miller
WOC Portrait Project
  1. Pisces Poet Queen/Amanda Gorman, 2021, pastel charcoal and gouache on paper, 22” x 30”
  2. Face of the Future/Madam Vice President/Kamala Harris, 2021, mixed media on paper, 22” x
    30”
  3. Queen of Soul/Aretha Franklin, 2021, mixed media on paper, 29” x 40”
  4. High Priestess of Soul/Nina Simone, 2021, charcoal on paper, 29” x 40”
  5. Unbossed and Unbought/Shirley Chisholm, 2021, mixed media on paper, 22” x 30’
  6. Ida B Wells, 2021, charcoal, pastel and ink on paper, 22” x 30”
  7. Ella Baker, 2021, charcoal, pastel, ink and acrylic on paper, 22” x 30”
  8. Pamela Coleman Smith, 2021, charcoal and pastel on paper, 22” x 30”
  9. Cicely Tyson, 2021, charcoal on paper, 22” x 30”
  10. Karen Robinson, 2021, pastel and charcoal on paper, 30” x 22”
  11. Okwui Okpokwasili, 2021, mixed media on paper, 22” x 30”
  12. Maxine Waters, 2021, mixed media on paper, 22” x 30”
  13. Alice Walker, 2021, pastel and ink on paper, 22” x 30”
  14. Joy Reid, 2021, mixed media on paper, 30” x 22”
  15. The Funeral/Coretta Scott King, 2021, charcoal, pastel and ink on paper, 40” x 29”
  16. Lady Day/Billie Holiday, 2021, charcoal on paper, 29” x 40”
  17. Phoebe Snow, 2021, charcoal and white chalk on paper, 29” x 40”
  18. Kay Brown, 2021, pastel and acrylic on paper, 29” x 40”
  19. Etta James, 2021, pastel and acrylic on paper, 40” x 29”
  20. Nina Chanel Abney, 2021, mixed media on paper, 40” x 29”
  21. Andrea Jenkins, 2021, mixed media on paper, 29” x 40”
  22. Neesha Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura, 2021, mixed media on paper, 29” x 40”
  23. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons/When We Gather, mixed media on paper, 29” x 40”
  24. Angela Davis, 2021, charcoal and pastel on paper, 22” x 30”
  25. Harriet Tubman, 2021, charcoal and pastel on paper, 22” x 30”
  26. Josephine Baker, 2021, charcoal, pastel and gouache on paper, 22” x 30”
  27. Audre Lorde, 2021, charcoal on paper, 22” x 30”
  28. First Day of School/Dorothy Counts, 2021, charcoal, ink, pastel and acrylic on paper, 29” x 40”
  29. Maya Angelou, 2021, charcoal and pastel on paper, 29” x 40”
  30. Coretta Scott King, 2021, charcoal and pastel on paper, 40” x 29”
  31. Zitkala-Sa, 2021, charcoal on paper, 29” x 40’
  32. Rosa Parks, 2021, charcoal and acrylic on paper, 29” x 40”
  33. Eartha Kitt, 2021, charcoal on paper, 29” x 40”
  34. Elizabeth Catlett, 2021, pastel, charcoal and acrylic on paper, 40” x 29”
  35. Emma Amos on Her Birthday, 2021, pastel and charcoal on paper, 29” x 40”
  36. Toyin Ojih Odutola, 2021, pastel and charcoal on paper, 29” x 40”
  37. Veronica Parker, 2021, pastel, charcoal and ink on paper, 40” x 2
  38. . Mary Wilson, 2021, mixed media on paper, 40” x 29”
39. Faith Ringgold, 2021, mixed media on paper, 40” x 29”
40. Alva Rogers, 2021, charcoal, pastel and ink on paper, 40” x 29”
41. Ayanna Pressley, 2021, mixed media on paper, 22” x 30”
42. Aquarius Queen/Oprah Winfrey, 2021, mixed media on paper, 22” x 30”
43. First Lady/Michelle Obama, 2021, mixed media on paper, 22” x 30”
44. Miracle Worker/Stacey Abrams, 2021, mixed media on paper, 30” x 22”
45. Stacey Plaskett, 2021, pastel on paper, 30” x 22”
46. Fannie Lou Hamer, 2021, mixed media on paper, 30” x 22”
47. Pauli Murray, 2021, pastel and charcoal on paper, 22” x 30”
48. Nannie Helen Burroughs, 2021, charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper, 22” x 30”

                         Camille Davidson 'Chance Illuminations'

3 GENERATIONS OF ART
Betsy Cook, Granny
Sophie Cook, Mom
Mirele Ciccaronne, 7 year old

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          May art show 'Book of Hours'-Sally Wagley
Story Hour May 21st Sunday 2-4 
'Readfield Moth Story Hour' music, tea, cookies and of course STORIES. Sign up 522 7325 and come tell a story, poem etc.. 
                                       
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                      Past Exhibitions

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Opening postponed to March 11th 10-1
                  
   October-November 2022 Kat Logan
IM/MORTAL Contemplative Self Portraits by Alicia Sampson Ethridge

   August 2020              
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AnimalWorlds'
                                 Alicia Ethridge
                                 Mary Burr
                                 Margaret Leonard
                                 Cheryl DiCara
                                 Arielle Cousens
                                 Larry Hayden
                                 Chris Olson

July exhibit          Camille Davidson

June exhibition
FORDS CORNER 'A collaboration between two artists' Nathan Allard and Andrew Pottle
Ford’s Corner is a collaboration of paintings by Nathan Allard and film
photography by Andrew Pottle that focuses on the 4-corner
intersection in North Palermo called “Ford’s Corner”. Ford’s Corner is
a place that is rich with history and that the Pottle family has owned
land at for 70 years.




      Paintings by Margaret Leonard   April 2nd-April 30th Reception on April 30th 10-2                                               

 The Art of Lynn Karlin

Food. We taste (rather we eat), we touch (maybe not enough). But how often do we slow down to take in the aroma and the beauty of the often-overlooked vegetables, fruit, and edible plants that nourish us? Do we notice the myriad varieties and 
Lynn Karlin’s award winning work has appeared in numerous write-ups from the San Francisco Chronicle to The New York Times and is exhibited in galleries, private collections, restaurants and corporate headquarters world-wide.
December 2021 Holiday invitational 12"x12"
Arlene Morris
​David Matson
Chris Olson
Chris Higgins
Mali Mrozinski
Camille Davidson
Kimberly Curry
Meredith Cough
Brian Braley
Nancy Keenan Barron
Jane Page Conway
Cynthia Ahlstrin
Sally Eagley
​Susan Mills
'In their own time' Artist mentors
October-November 2021 
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 14 artists connected through art, by supporting artists who have disabilities at Spindleworks in Brunswick and Spindleworks Off Site in Hallowell.  Working alongside adults with disabilites informs the work in their personal studio practices. The public is invited to see the Mentors’ work and learn how being an Artist Mentor informs their various disciplines. The work in this exhibition is diverse and includes: music, painting, fiber arts,  mixed media, ceramics, photography, sculpture and more. Please join us and meet the artists at an opening reception on Saturday, October 23, 2-4pm.
Brooke Adams, Sidney
Nancy Keenan Barron, South Gardiner 
Deirdre Barton, Brunswick 
Brian Braley, Auburn 
Janet Broxon, Brunswick 
Toni Carroll, Bath
Sara Cox, Bowdoinham
Tess Hartford, Brunswick 
Amy Mulligan, Bowdoinham  
Mali Mrozinski, Readfield 
Brian Trelegan, Yarmouth 
Martha Truscott, Harpswell 
Phoebe Pope, Hallowell 
Manon Whittlesey, Bowdoinham

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September 2021

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Arlene Morris 
'Paper Assemblages'
Readfield artists show
August 2021
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Chris Olson
Chris Higgins
Tom Higgins
Mandy Miller
DavidMatson
Camille Davidson 
Arielle Cousens
​Benjamin Stoodley
Julie Zales
​Mali Mrozinski











June 18th-August 8th 2021
Camille Davidson
Dona Mara
May 2021

Depth of Water - 8 x 8" encaustic on Kozo, framed 13.5 x 13.5". $125.

Dahlias - 8 x 8" encaustic on Kozo, framed 13.5 x 13.5". $125.

Depth of Golden Water - encaustic on Kozo, framed 13.5 x 13.5 $125.
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April 2021
Kimberly Curry
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Kimberly Curry is a Maine artist.  She works in mediums of watercolor, encaustic paint, and mixed media. Twenty years ago, she left Maine for a stint in the Peace Corps in Romania. The Romanian artists she met while she lived there, helped her find her own artistic voice.
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Today, she finds inspiration in everyday objects and the landscape around her. In this collection, Stampila, a Romanian postage stamp kicked off a whole series. 
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Curry visually translated images from the stamp into biomorphic, playful pieces. She stitched color-aid to handmade paper, mounted on small panels and build up layers of encaustic paint in certain sections of the panels. This joyous series shows that in everyday objects, there is fun to be found!
[email protected]
www.kimberlycurry.com
 



March 2021
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Sally Wagley
    

                                         'Body Electric'

                                            “I sing the body electric…. If the body were not the soul what is the soul?”
                                            --Walt Whitman
 

Most of my artwork is about the human body.  I’m interested not only in the surface of the body but also what’s inside, drawing on technical illustration and medical imaging.  While I work in a variety of media, this pieces in this show are all embroidered images.   Needle and thread lend themselves well to the depiction of muscles and other issue because muscles, like thread, twist, stretch, become lax, knot and tear. 
I worked for many years as a lawyer focusing on the legal needs of older people and people with disabilities, returning in recent years to my art practice.  I am currently studying art and art history at the University of Maine at Augusta.  I live in Brunswick, Maine. 
Sally Wagley
www.sallywagleyart.com
[email protected]
​All the work is for sale and can be purchased directly from the artist

February 2021
Debra Claffey
Debra Claffey Fine Art
email: [email protected] www.debraclaffey.com​
“My experience in horticulture and organic land care has led me to focus in on the plant world and the assaults on the soil, biodiversity of plant species, and the protection of native flora. I feel that all these assaults arise from age-old and widely-held beliefs. One is that all the earth and its resources are ours as humans at the top of a hierarchy to use as we will. Another is that the other forms of life on this planet are lesser than we are, thus less deserving of respect or care.
I celebrate plants: their great age and history on the planet, their intelligence and successful adaptions, their beauty of form, shape, and infinite color. I marvel in our new knowledge of their ways of communication, of making themselves attractive to us and other species, and the trading of “goods and services” that goes on between plants, fungi, bacteria, insects, birds, and even us mammals. My aim is to help my viewers appreciate plant life a bit more when they enjoy my work and in a hopeful and positive way.”
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January 2021
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Posters of Quotes by William Sloane Coffin(curated by Nan March)
art talk about William Coffin by friend and artist Robert Shetterly
​Today January 18th at 4:00
​November 2020
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Jess Beer and Morgain Bailey 'Watershed'
https://jessbeer.com
https://morgain.photoshelter.com/
October 2020
Arielle Cousens
 'Herd Bound'
October 2020
Benjamin Stoodley 
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'Practice makes Perfection' (watercolor studies)
http://www.metalsculptureplus.com

​September 2020
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Cynthia Ahlstrin
'Out of Lines'
​cynthiaahlstrin.com



August 2020 (two solo shows by two different artists)
​Chris Olson
​
Mélange 
All the work is for sale! Contact The Gallery or the artist directly if you are interested in owning a piece of art. All the money goes directly to the artists.
August 2020
Lola Baltzell

​'The Ocean's Shine'

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The Oceans shine 1 encaustic
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Break the Line encaustic
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The Oceans shine 2 encaustic
July 2020
Camille Davidson
'
Towards light'
Inspired by the woods and the seasonal shifts in nature
​camilledavidsonart.com
June 2020
Meredith Cough
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Bouquets from Maine: a mini series
​meredithcough.com

Helene Farrar and Nancy Keenan Barron ​'Around Heya'
Nancy Barron                                                                     Helene Farrar                                                     Nancy Barron
https://helenefarrar.com    https://nancykbarron.wordpress.com

April 2020
​David Matson
​Found Object Esoterica

[email protected]
A virtual showing of works by David Matson of his April exhibition  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCZYeMz7K5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtpYJ41WEY Virus-free. www.avast.com
My pieces sort of assemble themselves, like Ezekiel's dry bones.
It is your interaction with them that brings life.
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         Sin Eater  by David Matson
   November 2019 Chris Higgins and Tom Higgins
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As a painter, what I find most interesting is the dialogue between perception and the act of painting, how a gesture of paint can become the equivalent of what is observed and subjectively transformed.
J. Thomas R. Higgins ​
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I am drawn to the color, texture, and light of the natural environment.   References to these elements in my art are purposely kept somewhat abstract to allow the viewer their own personal reactions.  I strive to balance the intuitive process, cubliminal memory and tactile experience.
Christine Higgins     [email protected]
2019 October Felice Boucher
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                                                                                                                                                                My fine art photography is still and direct, and closely parallels my meditation practices.  All sense of time and place is set aside when I focus on a photograph's creation.  Although much of my time is invested in commercial photography, my fine art work is grounded in my passion of photography, painting, design and color.

J. Felice Boucher
September 2019 Meredith Cough
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The natural world is filled with repetition, patterns dancing in space, inhabiting our vision.  We have all passed through places that grab us with their beauty, New England has many.  While interpreting visual harmony I think about what I can do without.  Painting is about making choices, what to include and what not to include, bringing the artwork into focus.  This process of distillation becomes the artistic voice.
-Meredith Cough
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'Smith family' Tom Higgins                                                 Chris Olson
                           
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'Neptune by Arielle Cousens.                  'Barn Swallow Way' Benjamin Stoodley
August 2019
The Artists in your neighborhood

A group show of local artists living in Readfield in honor of Readfield Heritage Days
Arielle Cousins
Benjamin Stoodley
Tom Higgins
Chris Higgins
Camille Davidson
Chris Olson
Jean Scudder
July 2019
​Camille Davidson

A year in the woods from a treehouse
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 I paint from a treehouse in the woods near my home. I am surrounded by forest and I am constantly aware of the shifting seasons, lights and moods of the woods. Encaustic and cold wax are the mediums I use to layer, scrape back and uncover these veils.

The Gallery in photos- artist receptions, concerts, celebrations
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