Two Maine Art Hill artists arrive for Week Eight of Spring Arrivals. Below you will see a thumbnail of each piece. Click to make it larger. Works from these two artists are available online and at the main gallery at 14 Western Ave in Kennebunk. Come by or call 207-967-2803. Links to their artist’s pages, where you can see all their work are at the bottom. Janis Sanders and Claire Bigbee.
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Week Two of Spring Arrivals 2023 – Gordon, Sanders and Bruson
Three Maine Art Hill artists arrive for Week Two of Spring Arrivals. Below you will see a thumbnail of each piece. Click to make it larger. Works from these three artists are available online and at the main gallery at 14 Western Ave in Kennebunk. Come by or call 207-967-2803. Click the link to learn which artists are!
Artist Janis Sanders and Northshore Magazine’s 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards
We are not surprised in any way to learn Sanders has been recognized. More so, we want to help him along a bit more. With this, we are asking you to take a moment and give him your vote. All the links and information are a click away.
Something New – Artist Insights from Janis Sanders
“Why is it that looking at old photos, the older they are, the younger you look?” laughs Janis Sanders when talking about creating new work. The relationship between painting and photography is tight—the more unique the artwork, the older the artist, and the more experience and skill we see come through in paint. “The common… Read more »
When Color Changes Everything – Artist Insights from Janis Sanders
“In my new process, the doors opened to experimentation with new colors, new color mixes, new color combinations, and bold, unusual perspectives,” shares artist Janis Sanders. “Daring. I was daring myself, daring the paint.”
Evolving Into Blue – End of Summer Show with Janis Sanders
“I begin each painting with the sky; to me, the most important element,” says Sanders. “The sky is light. We are immersed in it. It’s the key to determining the entire atmosphere of the painting. Visually and practically, it provides the backdrop for the other objects in view,” says Sanders. “I paint those blue skies, each new and fresh from the gut.”
Janis Sanders – Three Views of Maine
“Maine takes me by the hand and gently, quietly reaches in, touches my heart, my soul, tantalizing, whispering, seducing,” says artist Janis Sanders. “She knows me, owns me.”
Spring Arrivals 2022 – Janis Sanders
Janis Sanders has always found his inspiration from the outside world and how it interacts with man and the objects we build. His stunning use of the sky and light combined with structures and vessels has become his signature.
The Janis H. Sanders’ Spring Show at Maine Art Hill
“I begin each painting with the sky; to me, the most important element,” says Sanders. “The sky is light. We are immersed in it. It’s the key to determining the entire atmosphere of the painting. Visually and practically, it provides the backdrop for the other objects in view,” says Sanders. “I paint those blue skies, each one new, each one fresh from the gut.”
Spring Arrivals 2021 – Janis Sanders
Painting for me is both an extension and outgrowth of and a form of expression of this love of the land that I roamed as a boy and young man through the cornfields near home or the idle summer afternoons spent gazing at the wondrous forms the winds shaped for our joy and pleasure if we took the few moments time to look up at the skies, to reach for the skies with our soul in the process, literally and metaphorically and be completely in and of the moment, chewing on a stalk of wild grass picked from a field along the way, tasting the bittersweet juice.