Featured Painting

"Rough Water"

News and Updates

Beautiful sunny weather here in Maine means I move outside with my palette, brushes and easel. I'm currently working on seascapes and sandy shores, but I'll be heading to New Hampshire's White Mountains soon and hope to capture running streams and mountain vistas as well.

In my studio, I'm working on a new portfolio about water in all its shapes and shades--foaming surf, rushing brooks, thundering waterfalls, quiet ponds, reflecting pools, etc. "Rough Water" above and "Wild Garden" below are two of the newly finshed pieces. This series will be shown in a solo show in 2020 in the Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Falmouth, my primary Maine venue.

Good news on the gallery front: I've been invited to join the N. W. Barrett Gallery in Portsmouth, N.H. Four of my recent works are displayed in the current show on Salt Marshes (through June 24), with more to be seen in the next show on Estuaries (beginning June 25). Each of this gallery's shows centers on a theme. Coming later this year is a show on Plein Air work, and another on Pastels. Downtown Portsmouth is a wonderful place to spend a day browsing in the shops and exploring the coast, so please stop by.

I also show in the Thomas Moser Gallery in Freeport (with a new show opening on June 27) and the Centre St. Arts Gallery (CSAG) in Bath (with a new show on June 30).

CSAG just hosted a well attended event where poets wrote and read their poems about specific paintings. Kara Douglas wrote a wonderful poem called "Some Days" about my painting "Riding Roughshod". You can read her poetry on her website, but here's the first paragraph from "Some Days" to whet your appetite:

"We sat on your back porch in the late morning warmth./You told me your sternman went overboard./You looked once and he was there, at the trap line./You looked twice and he was gone. . . ." See Kara's website for the rest of her wonderful poem on "Riding Roughshod", shown below.

And finally, I was pleased to see that Art Maine magazine included me in their 2019 Annual Guide "showcasing 91 of Maine's most collectible artists". I'm in good company with that wonderful showcase of talented people!

More information on each of my galleries can be found on the individual web sites: www.elizabethmossgalleries.com; www.nwbarrett.com;  www.centrestartsgalleryllc.com; and www.thosmoser.com.  For the complete list of my shows in 2019, see the Exhibits page.

Because I have been doing more painting "en plein air", I've added a new Page to my website to post works completed outdoors. Some of these are studies for larger paintings. From spring to fall, I paint outside as much as possible to improve my observation of color, light and shadow, and to increase the speed with which I design compositions and capture form.

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 2019.