Featured Painting

"Wild Garden" (2)

News and Updates

My solo show, called Waterworks, at the Elizabeth Moss Gallery in Falmouth, Maine, has been extended through August 29. The show is all about water--foaming surf, quiet lily ponds, rushing rivers, thundering waterfalls. "Wild Garden" above is the most recent painting to have sold from this new collection. For a glimpse of other pieces in the show, see the New Work page. For more information and for gallery hours, check the website: www.elizabethmossgalleries.com.

This summer, I am pushing myself in new directions, painting the subjects that I find most difficult and experimenting with different techniques. It is a good time to rethink, reevaluate and recreate. The complicated buoy painting shown below, called "Tangled Web", just came off the easel and is in the drying stage.

As part of an online artist group, I have also committed to doing one black and white drawing per week for the next year. The drawings are small (4" x 6"), but are leading to the development of my next series. Here is as example, along with the small (12" H x 16" W ) painting study just completed. My plan is to do large paintings based on these drawings and studies.

Three of my paintings have been juried into a Maine bicentennial show called "The Pine Tree State at 200: The Art of the Maine Woods," at the Thomas Moser Gallery in Freeport. The show will run until December 31. You can see the three pieces (A River Runs Wild; Color at Its Peak; and Tumble Down) on the New Work page or visit the gallery to enjoy them first-hand.

In addition to representation by the Elizabeth Moss Gallery, my work is shown at the N. W. Barrett Gallery in Portsmouth, NH, and at the Centre St. Arts Gallery in Bath, ME. I helped to found the latter gallery with 8 other partners almost 10 years ago. More information on each of these venues and their schedules can be found on their individual web sites:

www.elizabethmossgalleries.com;

(N. W. Barrett) www.portsmouthupstairsgallery.com;

www.centrestartsgalleryllc.com;

and www.thosmoser.com.

For the preliminary list of shows in 2020, including my ongoing exhibit at the Maine State Senate offices in Augusta, 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 2019.