By January is Corey’s Artist Choice piece for the Choice Art Show at Maine Art Shows in Kennebunk. It is one of three pieces of his work in the show. “This painting represents me and my work to the best of my current ability. Everything I have went into it,” says Corey. “The Belted Gateways are one of my favorite subjects when I’m looking for a challenge. For such big animals they don’t seem to stop moving. This makes it tough when trying to paint them.”
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Jill Valliere on Wanderlust – An Artist’s Choice
“I had decided to take a drive on a slightly foggy day last fall. I was in search of inspiration,” says Valliere. “I drove around to my favorite haunts for a few hours, but I didn’t find anything that made my ‘painting fingers’ twitch.” After giving up for the day, she headed toward home and began to daydream. Of course this led to a wrong turn, not an uncommon turn of events for Valliere. “When I tuned back into my surroundings I found myself in Lincolnville. In front of me was the scene that later became Wanderlust.”
Susan Wahlrab on Sanctuary – An Artist’s Choice
“Sanctuary represents one of those days, really months, of the pure bliss of connection. Every step I felt guided and clear,” says Wahlrab. Not only did this piece come together, the process just let go. “I was in a relationship with how paint describes how nature is our resource to recharge full lives.” This sensation has stayed with Susan with her work even on the challenging days. “I am able to just let go and allow the painting to come in its own time. The whole process has become my Sanctuary.”
Maine Art Shows Opens June 11th
On Saturday June 11, Maine Art Shows will start the season, and continuing with tradition, will open with the Choice Art Show. This is the fifth year for the Choice Art Show, and as always, the art itself stays true to the charm and appeal of our area. All twelve artists have submitted works celebrating every aspect of Maine life. From the shores, to the forests, to the farms, this state is incredibly diverse, and all of its beauty is represented here.
Maine Art Joins The Nonantum’s Kennebunkport Progressive Dinner Tour
Sunday, May 22nd Maine Art Paintings and Sculpture is happy to join the Nonantum Resort in hosting the first of two Spring Progressive Dinners. May’s tour will be a small group touring several of Kennebunks quality establishments in the resort shuttle. With only fourteen guests, this will be an intimate gathering. This visit will start with a private party at Maine Art Gallery for appetizers.
Let the Voting Begin – The Choice Art Show
We are have an amazing and varied inventory and an incredible array of artists. But we have always found it beneficial to listen to the opinions of others with different views. And so, the Choice Art Show was born. This one of a kind Maine art show allows you to help curate the final show. No matter how well we know our clients, it is still often difficult to know for sure, what you, our customer, will fall in love with. And so, we ask.
Jay Sawyer – New Artist and New Work
We are very happy to welcome a new sculptor to Maine Art Paintings and Sculpture. Jay Sawyer is a Maine native who has taken his love of metal, background in engineering and fabrication, and experience in repair and maintenance and created a place for himself in the ever popular world of Maine art.
Jennifer Clement – New Artist and New Work
Jennifer spent summers in Wells, Maine with her grandfather when she was young. Then later returned to the Maine coast as a teenager for six summers in a row. “My boyfriend’s aunt had a house in Biddeford Pool,” remembers Clement. “There is a piece and balance when I am around the ocean.” This attraction to the ocean fills her canvases, maybe not with a single beach or certain skyline, but with the general love for the northeast coast. “There is piece of my soul in every work.”
First Lives – Susan Wahlrab
At a very young age Susan Wahlrab was expressing her own “important ideas”. “My grandmother said I came home from whatever event and went right for my drawing pad or my desk chalkboard and immediately created a visual diary of what most interested me,” says Wahlrab. “Making images has been my way of integrating life’s experiences since I was very smallI.” Having someone to nurture those interests and natural curiosities soon led Susan down the road to becoming an artist.
A Bit o’ Green and Sunshine
Between spring and St. Patty’s we love this time of year at Maine Art. The streets outside our windows have just a few more people wandering, shops that have been closed and dark since January are beginning to open their windows and air out the winter dust, and on those lovely days when the thermometer rises above 60 degrees, we begin to smell the beginning of the season. Of course our pot of gold looks more like Daniel Corey’s sunflowers in Of the Sun and our Shamrocks are made of copper by Lyman Witaker and spin all year long, but still we celebrate right along with the rest of you.