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"Ready to Go"

News and Updates

My work has been selected for several juried shows this fall, including "Art in Maine" at the Boothbay Regional Arts Foundation; the "Yarmouth Art Festival"; and the Thomas Moser Gallery in Freeport. The painting shown above, "Ready to Go", was one of the five selected by Thomas Moser for its fine arts show, which continues through April 2019.

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. Most of the newer pieces are painted on Arches Huile (Oil) paper, which I then mount on archival gessobord. I love the texture and effects of that surface and using paper makes long-distance travel with supplies much easier.

The holiday exhibit at Centre St. Arts Gallery (CSAG) in Bath, Maine, includes many small works for holiday gift giving, so stop by if you're in town. The gallery is open every day but Tuesday. The holiday reception will be on Friday, December 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. Five of my works are hanging there, along with paintings from nineteen other artists whose styles range from representational to abstract, in a variety of media.

Although my solo show titled "Working the Coast," at the Elizabeth Moss Gallery  ended this summer, my work can still be seen in that gallery's inventory. This new body of work focuses on Maine fishermen and their way of life. 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. Other paintings are posted on the New Work page. The Elizabeth Moss Gallery is located at 251 US Rte 1 in Falmouth, Maine.

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.