Member News & Exhibits
Nina Sylvia, of Ruby Slippers Studio in West Bath, will exhibit recent work at the Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Hall at Bowdoin College, of Brunswick from March 1st to the 31st. The exhibit, “Botanical Impressions,” features over 25 original monotypes created using a relatively new process called Gelatin printing. There will be an opening reception and demonstration of the technique on Friday, March 5th from 7 to 9 PM.
Gelatin Monotype printing was developed by an artist named Fran Merritt (1913-2000), the Founding Director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Dear Isle, Maine. Ms. Sylvia uses this medium to create detailed impressions of natural objects. The extremely pliant characteristic of gelatin allows impressions to be made by inking firm, food grade gelatin. Many of the objects used in the printing process were either grown in Ms. Sylvia’s gardens or in the gardens of a fellow artist in Fort Myers, Florida; or are “found objects” which have washed up on Maine’s shores.
The artist has most recently been integrating some of the found and printed material onto the prints themselves, to create juxtaposition between what is seen and what is suggested. While the basis of her work is mainly botanic in character, the prints become more about the textures, colors, and layering of space than about the individual pieces used to generate them, allowing viewers the chance to see objects in a whole new way.
Ms. Sylvia has a B.F.A. in printmaking from the Maine College of Art, and a M.Ed. in Art from the University of Southern Maine. She is a visual art teacher at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Maine.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GILLIAN ILTIS
at the
BRISTOL AREA LIBRARY
Bristol Road (Route 13) and Old County Road, New Harbor, ME
Local photographer, Gillian (“Gill”) Iltis was first drawn to photography as a child, while shooting black and white photos of Kentish villages, churches, and cemeteries in her native England. After re-locating to Chicago in 1968, she focused her eye on the city, its residents, and its architecture. Gill attended Chicago’s Columbia College, where she studied portraiture, landscape, and studio photography, and was subsequently published in the Chicago Tribune as well as various Chicagoland magazines. Most recently, her photographs have appeared in several juried River Arts’ shows in Damariscotta. Over the years, a portion of her work has been donated to various charities, and her annual Christmas cards have become collectors’ items. Following an extended period in Maine, Gill returned to photography in earnest. The current show encapsulates some recent work, including:
A “Practice Burn” in Chamberlain in 2008, involving volunteers from several local fire departments, including the Bristol Fire Department
Wintry Maine
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Watercraft
To reach Gill directly, please e-mail her at: farnboro@hotmail.com
Holiday Art and Craft Show and Sale at Seven Waters Studio
The 3rd annual Holiday Art Sale will be held on Saturday and Sunday Dec. 5thth f and 6rom 10AM to 5PM at the old church on Route 215 N. in Damariscotta Mills. Come celebrate the season of joy with the artists and select from array of jewelry, paintings, textiles, ceramics, wood -turnings and furniture, fused glass, blown glass and ornaments.
Members and guest artists from the Stable Gallery will be represented along with many other familiar local artists and craftspeople. Enjoy the gift- giving of handmade, one-of-a-kind works of art.
Seven Waters studio is located at 377 Bayview Rd, in Damariscotta Mills, just 2 miles from Business Route 1. For more information please call 563-7296 or inquire at 7waters@tidewater.net
Roberta Goschke
Past Remembering
Tidemark Gallery
November 4-28
Artist’s Reception —November 14 5-7
Boundmarks
border-lines and boundary-lines Maine and Canada
Oils and Woodcuts by Sally DeLorme Pedrick
November 14 – December 15
Reception – Sunday, November 15 1-5 pm
The Library Art Studio
1467 Route 32, Round Pond 529-2345
or email hannahi@tidewater.net
Work of the Hand
October 10 – October 18 2009
Susan Atwater is one of the 50 artists presenting their fine contemporary crafts in this highly-anticipated juried show and sale. This year, Work of the Hand will be celebrating its 20th year as one of Maine’s most outstanding crafts shows, and will run from October 10 through 18, 2009. Fine crafts artists from Maine and New England will offer work of exceptional quality and unique design, including jewelry, furniture, glass, lighting, pottery, clothing, fiber and leather works for sale, order, or commission.
Work of the Hand opens Friday, October 9 with a Collectors’ Preview Evening from 5 to 8 pm. Guests can meet the artists and will have an opportunity to purchase exceptional work or commission a custom piece as they enjoy the reception. Admission is $15. Artists will be present on certain days as the show continues, October 10 through 18, 10 am to 5 pm daily, admission $5.
Atwater and Loney in Jonathan Frost Gallery
On Wednesday, September 16, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., the Jonathan Frost Gallery in Rockland will host the opening reception for its Quilts and Textile Arts show. This is a juried show embracing the work of twenty-five fiber artists. Steve Lindsay will play the piano for the festive opening.
On the following Wednesday, September 23, beginning at 6:00 p.m., the gallery will host a fashion show of wearable items in the show.
The exhibition includes traditional quilts and contemporary art quilts and appliqué work by Kathleen Daniels of China Village; Mathea Daunheimer and Roxanne Wells of Thomaston; Jo Diggs of Portland; Janet B. Elwin of Walpole; Susan Gerhardt of South Thomaston; Betty Johnson of Rockland; Natasha Kempers-Cullen of Topsham; Phyllis Harper Loney of Round Pond; wall hangings by Susan E. Atwater of Damariscotta; Jeanne-Marie Robinson of Northport; and Gail Galloway-Nicholson, Carrie Hedstrom, Diane Neil, Sarah Ann Smith, and Nancy F. Wheelwright, all of Camden.
Mary Ann Small of Rockland will be showing rag rugs.
There will be many articles of clothing and fashionable accessories on display: dresses, coats, jackets, capes, shawls, scarves, hats, bracelets, handbags and totes. The creators of these pieces are Meredith Alex of Belfast, Susan E. Atwater of Damariscotta, Barbara Beebe of Friendship, Katharine Cobey and Katherine Woodcock-Lynn of Cushing, Karen Martin of Camden, Cynthia McGuirl of Thomaston, Elaine Pew of Alna, Anastasia Sulzhenko of Rockland, Diane Neil and Mary Ann Small.
The jury for this show consisted of gallery owner Jonathan Frost and expert quilter Janet B. Elwin. Ms. Elwin, who helped found the New England Quilters Guild, has written four books, including Creative Triangles for Quilters and Hexagon Magic. Entries were judged on overall effect and craftsmanship.
The show will remain on view through October 24. The Jonathan Frost Gallery is located at 21 Winter Street in Rockland. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 9:00 to 5:00, except Wednesday, when it stays open until 8:00. Please call 596-0800 for more information.
Mae’s Café & Bakery hosts Loughridge art show,
“Along the Kennebec Estuary”
Mae’s Café & Bakery in Bath presents “Along the Kennebec Estuary,” an exhibit of original artwork by South Bristol painter Sally Loughridge, from June 7 through September 2. A public reception with the artist will be held Thursday June 11, from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibit includes over 35 paintings in soft pastel, oil and watercolor.
Loughridge has travelled and painted the vistas along the Kennebec Estuary for the past year. In spring 2008 she invited the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust to collaborate on the exhibit by sharing educational information about the region and the preserves it stewards. The Trust is dedicated to conservation of the natural, historic, scenic, cultural and agricultural resources of the Kennebec Estuary.
Member Ruth Monsell’s oil painting, Golden Beach Boys, appears on the cover of the spring issue of Memories of Maine Magazine. Also included on the inside front cover is an article, “About Our Cover Artist: Ruth Monsell” and an example of her portraiture. The magazine is complimentary, and available in the midcoast at historical societies, in Wiscasset at the Lincoln County historical society, museums, the Chapman/Hall House in Damariscotta, libraries, banks, and various stores and restaurants. Editor David Branch chose her painting after seeing it in the Portland Press Herald last year, where it was advertising the current Maine Art Gallery show.
Ruth lives in Damariscotta where she works in her studio and operates her business, Artful Heirlooms.com.
Petrea Noyes’ work has been chosen as one of the finalists for the 60th Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild in New Canaan, CT:”Art of the Northeast, is one of the most anticipated regional juried shows of the year at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, traditionally drawing over 1200 entries, and open to all media and artists throughout New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This year’s juror is Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Throughout its history Art of the Northeast (AONE), originally called Art of New England, has been a showcase for many emerging artists who have gone on to receive national acclaim. Jurors have included curators and directors of major galleries and museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA and the Whitney Museum.”
The piece selected was 38×56, ‘Breakfast’…..
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