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News and Updates

Centre St. Arts Gallery (CSAG) in Bath, Maine, will welcome visitors on Friday, August 17, during Bath's Art Walk. The painting shown above, along with 5 other of my works, is on display there. Twenty artists, with styles ranging from detailed to abstract, working in media from watercolor and pastels to oils and acrylics, are represented by the gallery. Please come in and enjoy the festivities and refreshments.

"Working the Coast," my solo show at the Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Falmouth, Maine, ended on June 9, but my work can still be seen in the gallery's inventory. This new body of work, which focuses on Maine fishermen and their way of life, has been in the making for the past two years. I've lived in Maine for 11 years and wake up every morning to lobstermen hauling their traps, clammers working the flats and fishermen heading out to sea. If it's not the people that catch my attention, it's their gear--coiled lines, waders, oilskins, lobster crates, pot and mooring buoys, and of course dinghies and fishing boats. The paintings in the show are posted on the New Work page. The Elizabeth Moss Gallery is located at 251 US Rte 1 in Falmouth.

Warm weather means that I've moved my easel outside to paint "plein air". See "A Quiet Place" and "By the Pond" on the New Work page. Besides looking for local settings, I'm planning a trip to Provence this fall to paint in Impressionist territory. I'll be with a group led by Ian Roberts, an expert in plein air painting. Trips such as this give me new inspiration, as well as the collegiality of other artists equally passionate about painting.

More information on my galleries can be found on their web sites: www.elizabethmossgalleries.com and www.centrestartsgalleryllc.com. For the complete list of my shows in 2018, see the Exhibits page.

I would love to get your feedback on my art and my web site. Just send an email to llpmaine@hughes.net.  Thanks, and I hope to see you at one of my galleries or shows in 2018.