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Charles Fenner Ball
Bangor, ME
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The classic children’s book, “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” made a big impression on Fenner as a child. As he states, “this fictional character created mysterious and exotic places with his simple drawing tool. His world was brought to life right out of thin air. I’ve always been captivated by how a work of art is something that never previously existed, commanded into being by the artist. There’s often an inherent sense of mystery in paintings, and I try to capture that spirit in my own work. Ideally, I can offer the viewer a sense of escapism and enchantment, some sort of ideal place in nature to be momentarily immersed in – a place of mystery, beauty, and intrigue.” Fenner’s work is represented locally at the Camden Falls Gallery.
Daniel J. Corey
Buxton, ME
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Daniel Corey is a full-time painter focusing on finding color harmonies and abstract shapes to create his paintings. Currently living near Sebago Lake in Buxton, Maine, Daniel is also a full-time husband, and father to his daughter. Yard work and chasing a toddler keep him busy, along with dabbling in playing live music.
Ken DeWaard
Hope, ME
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Kenneth DeWaard has been painting en plein air for more than 30 years. He began studying watercolor at the American Academy of Art, Chicago, and then continued his early training at Chicago’s Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art. He has won awards at plein-air events and invitationals across the country, including Easton, Laguna Beach, Door County, Cape Ann, Sonoma, Richmond, and Florida, as well as painting in China, Italy, and Russia. “Looking past the obvious to get the essence and beauty of the scene is my intention; finding the inner elegance, be it with line, mass, shape, and color harmony,” he says. “My goal is to inspire those who see my work to look more carefully at the world around them; to discover the beauty in everyday places.”
Carol L. Douglas
Rockport, ME
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Carol Douglas is a painter and teacher in Rockport, Maine. A native of Buffalo, New York, she studied painting with her father, and then at the Art Students League in New York. She lived and worked in Rochester for 25 years before moving to Maine in 2016. She teaches a popular week-long workshop in Acadia National Park every August, as well as workshops elsewhere in the US. Twice a season, she teaches a watercolor workshop aboard the Rockland schooner American Eagle. When she is not teaching on the boat, she is often painting portraits of other classic wooden boats in Rockport, Camden, or Rockland harbors.
Cooper Dragonette
Cape Elizabeth, ME
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Cooper Dragonette specializes in landscape painting. Originally from Connecticut, he moved to Maine in the mid-1990s. Maine instilled in him a deep love for the natural beauty of its coastline. Before becoming a professional artist, he worked for many years with the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, and later taught fine arts. Today he paints full time and instructs plein-air painting workshops. His work is featured at the Portland Art Gallery in Portland, Maine, and the Todd Bonita Gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Diane Dubreuil
Monmouth, ME
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After graduation from the University of Maine at Orono, Diane worked as a digital artist for more than 25 years. In 2005, she was the resident artist for the Musée de la Grande Vigne in Dinan, Brittany, and returned in 2019 for the historical designation of the museum. In 2021, Diane was chosen to be Baxter State Park’s Visiting Artist. “Wherever I paint, people ask me about my work and tell me about their art experiences, their hometowns, and their families. I love that my art is a catalyst for meeting people,” she says. Diane is a Signature Member of the New England Watercolor Society and the International Plein Air Painters. She often paints with the Plein Air Painters of Maine and other plein-air groups around the country.
Stephan Giannini
Rockland, ME
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Stephan Giannini is a plein-air painter living in Rockland, Maine. He especially enjoys the quiet and mystery of painting at night. Most recently he has taken several sketchbook-focused trips to Spain. Stephan has also worked on historical restorations of large-scale decorations and murals in churches, theaters, and state capitols, and has restored murals in the White House office building. He was a cover artist in 2018 in PleinAir Magazine. He studied at the Lyme Academy in Connecticut, as well as at the Palette and Chisel and the American Academy of Art in Chicago.
Roberta Goschke
Waldoboro, ME
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Roberta was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Her interest in drawing began in childhood and continued through high school and a 20-year US Army career. During her military service, she also attended the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia. Roberta began life-drawing sessions in 1984 and continues this essential practice today. She moved to Maine in 2000. Drawing and painting from life remains her passion, along with capturing the beauty of her home in the Pine Tree State. Her artwork has been included in numerous exhibitions in Maine; Washington, DC; Virginia; and Maryland. In Maine, she is represented by Camden Falls Gallery, Camden; Gallery Two, Rockland; Wiscasset Bay Gallery; Wiscasset; and her studio in Waldoboro.
Alison Hill
Monhegan Island, ME
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“Painting has become my way of moving through this world, responding to and expressing what I see and feel,” Alison says. “It is my interpretation, using color, stroke, and line, to evoke the mood I am receiving. Whether it’s a landscape, a person, or a still life, I want to recreate what I am receiving.” Alison now lives on Monhegan Island, Maine. In the summer, she runs a studio/gallery. Off-season, she paints, travels, does portraits, and works on other art-related endeavors. “Monhegan offers endless inspiration, no matter what the season,” she says, “and I feel fortunate to call this place home.”
Jill Hoy
Stonington, ME and Somerville, MA
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Jill Hoy has had a presence in Maine for several decades. She has summered on Deer Isle since the age of nine and has run the Hoy Gallery in Stonington since 1986. She also exhibits her work (including short videos and taped interviews) at the Portland Art Gallery. All this time in Maine has given her a keen appreciation of the state’s natural beauty, which is reflected in her plein-air compositions. Her works have been exhibited in several venues, ranging from the Harvard Business School to the Portland Museum of Art, as well as in many US embassies around the world. Her paintings capture the energy, rhythm, and power of place in each location.
Tina Ingraham
Bath, ME
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Tina Ingraham has painted Maine’s beaches, lakes, and working waterfronts since the seventies. Whether painting in the open air, or still life and the figure in her studio, she recreates her perceptions with spontaneously brushed and troweled swaths of rich color harmonies that impart echoes of atmosphere and poetry. Ingraham, a recipient of many awards, lived and worked in Italy on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and now paints from her studio in Brunswick’s Fort Andross. She is represented by Greenhut Galleries in Portland, Maine, and Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville, Delaware.
Eric Jacobsen
Thomaston, ME
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“It is most important to me that my paintings convey a certain mood,” Eric says. “I want them to be felt by the viewer without his or her having to analyze or think about them. I try to find strong compositions in nature and then paint the scene accurately, while leaving out any extraneous details that might detract from the strength of the piece as a whole. My painting process consists of finding a painting site and setting up to paint for a couple of hours, or until the light has changed. For larger paintings, I will return on consecutive days at the same time and under similar lighting conditions to finish a piece.”
Leo Mancini-Hresko
Chestnut Hill, MA
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Leo Mancini-Hresko grew up in Boston, fascinated with drawing and painting all day from a young age. Educated at The Florence Academy of Art, Leo lived and worked in this Renaissance city for 11 years. Since 2012, he has worked out of his studio in Waltham, Massachusetts. In the tradition of the American Impressionists, Leo chooses to focus on resplendent effects of light, brushstroke, and color, working from direct observation whether painting outdoors in all seasons or in the studio. Leo’s work can be found in private collections worldwide. His work is also in public institutions, including the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut.
Jonathan McPhillips
Saunderstown, RI
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Jonathan McPhillips graduated from Connecticut College in 1993 with a Cum Laude Distinction in Fine Art. He is a full-time exhibiting artist and painting instructor in Saunderstown, Rhode Island. He works both in the studio and on location, and his work includes the harbors, beaches, vessels, and architecture of our coastline, as well as rural scenery, city streets, and anything that catches his eye. Some of Jonathan’s recent awards include: 2022 Olmsted 200 Celebration Best Light in an Olmsted Landscape Award, Atlanta; 2022 Cape Ann Plein Air Quick Draw First Place Award, 2022 Cape Ann Plein Air Honorable Mention Award, 2021 Cape Ann Plein Air First Place Award, and the 2021 American Impressionist Society President’s Choice Award, Omaha, Nebraska.
Nathaniel Meyer
South Portland, ME
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Nathaniel Meyer is a landscape painter based in South Portland and Corea, Maine. His paintings strive to evoke the heroic and poetic aspects of the Maine landscape. He is represented by Page Gallery in Camden, and Moss Galleries in Falmouth.
Alicia Mordenti
Washington Depot, CT
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Alicia Mordenti received her BFA from the University of Idaho in 2002, with an emphasis in ceramic arts. After several years of working in clay, she began exploring oil and acrylic painting in 2013. Her current body of work is comprised of landscape paintings done in oil, and reflect a familiarity and love for her home in northwest Connecticut and her summer home in midcoast Maine.
Colin Page
Camden, ME
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Colin Page, raised in Baltimore, studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Whether working on location or in the studio, Colin strives to capture the atmosphere and light of a scene. Colin currently lives in Maine, where he focuses on painting the landscape, and scenes that show his life as a father of two young girls. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions and group shows nationally and abroad.
Björn Runquist
Spruce Head, ME
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Björn Runquist is a Swedish-born artist who grew up in New York and France. He is essentially self-taught, but has painted since childhood when he started private lessons with Swedish artist Nils Strom. He has work in the permanent collection of the Farnsworth Museum and has exhibited widely in galleries on the East Coast. He is in many private and corporate collections, and has been featured several times in Maine Home & Design magazine. He is now a Maine resident, represented by Landing Gallery in Rockland.
Matthew Russ
Waterville, ME
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With his Waterville studio serving as a staging area for painting excursions throughout Maine, Matthew Russ is devoted to the plein-air practice. He says, “Painting in the field is a means of engaging directly with the landscape. While these sessions are personally enlightening, it’s always my goal to share my discoveries. I invite viewers to join me in celebrating the wonder of our natural surroundings.” Russ champions public access to land, often painting in state parks and protected areas. In 2020, he journeyed with his easel to 20 coastal islands to raise awareness of and funds for the Maine Island Trail Association.
Janet Sutherland
Ipswich, MA
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A graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art, Janet began her career illustrating for the Crown Publishing Group and Macmillan Publishers in New York. Over the past two decades, she has earned numerous awards as a landscape painter. She is a juried artist member of the North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the Rockport Art Association & Museum, Rockport, Massachusetts. Her work is represented by the DeLouise Studio, also in Rockport, and Roux & Cyr International Fine Art in Portland, Maine, and is in the collections of both US and European art buyers.
Michael E. Vermette
Indian Island, ME
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Michael Vermette is an expressive impressionist with a flair for plein-air painting. He strives to capture an emotional sense of place in his paintings. He graduated from the Maine College of Art and Design with a BFA degree in 1980, and continued his art education at the University of Maine at Orono. After receiving his teaching certificate, he became the first teacher of art for the Penobscot Tribal Nation. He continued his career as an artist/teacher for 36 years. He retired in 2022 to paint full time. His paintings have won numerous awards in competitions and shows in Maine and throughout New England. He is represented by several galleries Maine.
Peter Yesis
Searsport, ME
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Peter works from his home studio, painting scenes from nature in a soft, realistic style. “I look for a scene or a moment that tells an unfinished story,” he says. His paintings find the balance between detail and atmosphere, intentionally leaving space for thought and reflection. “When I am painting a still life, a figurative, or a landscape, my goal is to draw the viewer’s attention to the underlying beauty of the subject, but leave them with a desire to discover more.” His work is represented in Maine by Camden Falls Gallery, Camden; Roux & Cyr International Fine Art Gallery, Portland; Yarmouth Frame and Gallery, Yarmouth; and Trove, Searsport; as well as at True Grit Gallery, Middleborough, Massachusetts; and Visions of Vermont Gallery, Jeffersonville, Vermont.