Portfolio of Works
Scott Addis
“My paintings are an expression of mood or emotion within a design that allows a window in for people to see what they want or need to see. Whether the work is moody – angry or brooding – joyful or exciting – restive or peaceful – the colors and brushwork allow me as an artist tools to both experience and express what I am feeling. These feelings come on strong, are hard even to experience and only a glimpse of them can be translated onto the canvas.
Olena Babak
Olena Babak is an award winning, classically trained artist, whose landscapes and figurative works can be found in numerous galleries and collections in the U.S. and abroad. Olena was the recipient of the Hudson River Fellowship, NY and her works appear in numerous publications including two versions of the “Strokes of Genius” series, the “Poet’s and Artist’s: 100 Great Drawings,” and the “Classicist.” Formerly teaching graduate students at the Academy of Classical Design, Olena now offers private workshops and classes in her private studio and residence on the peaceful Great Moose Lake in central Maine.
Charles Fenner Ball
Throughout my life, I’ve been engaged in visual arts of one kind or another – from drawing to design to photography. But when I discovered oil painting, I realized I had found my medium. What other art form is so luxurious, versatile, and expressive? I would characterize my paintings as having a representational style, a dose of impressionism, with a slightly contemporary edge. Not necessarily by design, but because that’s just how they seem to come out – a product of my personality, I suppose, in some semi-mysterious way.
Poppy Balser
Poppy Balser is a Canadian painter who has always lived within walking distance of the ocean, mostly the Bay of Fundy. She developed an early connection with the seashore which continues to deepen as she studies the sea and its environs through her paintings. She highlights in her paintings that precious resource: the wild portions of Nova Scotia’s environment. She paints outside often to keep her observations fresh and accurate. Her goal is to capture within her studio work the sense of being in the open air, outside in nature.
Beth Bathe
Beth Bathe is an artist residing in Lancaster, PA. Primarily painting in oil en plein air since 2013, she participates in more than ten high profile competitions from Maine to Washington State a year. Her paintings have won numerous awards and honors. Beth was a featured artist in the 2018 February/March issue of PleinAir Magazine. Beth is highly influenced by American Regionalist painter Andrew Wyeth. Curiosity about the medium Beth works is often the first question of many viewers. Is it watercolor, is it oil? Beth’s answer: “somewhat both.” She works with Water Mixable Oil Colors in a limited tonalist palette, using both brushes and unconventional tools.
Brad Betts
Brad Betts has been an artist for over 20 years and is a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA). His paintings have appeared in solo and group shows throughout New England, including the Mystic Seaport Gallery’s acclaimed “International Marine Art Exhibition” for the past 7 years. In 2006, he received the “Maritime Gallery Yachting Award” at this exhibition and in 2008, was recognized as one of “Four Distinguished Artists” at the Mystic Seaport Gallery.
Karen Blackwood
Karen Blackwood was born in N.H. and received her BA in the Studio Art program at the University of N.H. After spending the early part of her professional life as an Art Director for a major New York City Ad Agency, she moved to California, picked up her brushes and dedicated herself to painting professionally.
Trained in the classical tradition, Karen painted portraits and figurative work before focusing on landscapes. Karen feels light is a defining factor, and it is the atmospheric quality of the light that she captures in her paintings. Her work is a desire to paint what inspires her and to capture the very essence of the scene.
Todd Bonita
As an oil painter, Bonita’s focus is often on small watercraft. His modest dories and tenders are imbued with a deep sense of psychological mystery. The softness of light on these solitary vessels, resting quietly at their moorings or tethered securely to abandoned docks, seems to take the viewer outside the normal strictures of time to a more mystical state. Bonita writes, “I paint what is familiar to my background… introspective memories of my childhood…they’re contemplative, reflective of where I grew up. I guess I’m digging into my soul.” His paintings reflect his fascination with the humble strength and timeless beauty of small-scale working watercraft.
Lon Brauer
Lon Brauer is an American artist known for his work in figure and plein air landscape. He has a BFA from Washington University and an MFA from Fontbonne University – both in St. Louis, Missouri.
Early interests were in biology and earth sciences that offered subject for his artwork as he developed. Starting college as a biology major he soon switched to art as a primary focus concentrating on both painting and graphic design. “Dad was a pharmacist and I was tapped to do the same but I had leaned heavy on art throughout my early years and that was where the passion lived.“
Jay Brooks
Growing up on 90 acres of farmland in Pavilion NY, Jay Brooks has always had the landscape as an integral part of his life and art. At the young age of 14, Brooks began painting under the classical apprenticeship of John Piesley and the plein air instruction of Charles Movalli, a disciple of the late Emile Gruppe. Brooks was also introduced to the pre-impressionist styles of Corot, George Inness and Asher B. Durand.
Tom Bucci
The real joy of painting for me is working directly from life and on location, starting with small study sketches. I feel a painting is successful when I first envision the result, then make that happen. If a painting succeeds without visualizing it in advance, I consider that to be luck. Even though I work from life I don’t feel obligated to represent exactly what I see. I often move, add, or change things to suit my composition. I’m like a fisherman, I don’t always tell the truth, but instead tell the story the way I’d like it to be.
Christine Coombs
Christine studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Syracuse University School of Art. Her work can be found in private, corporate, and government collections including those of the family of the late actress Kirsty Alley, actor Parker Stevenson, former owner of Maine Times and world circumnavigator Dodge Morgan, as well as noted corporate and international art collectors.
Guy Corriero
Guy attended the School of Visual Arts and The Art Students League in New York City where he studied with John Groth, Earl Mayhan and Mario Cooper. He has a B.A. from C.W. Post College and a M.A. in Humanities from Hofstra University. After teaching studio as well as academic art courses on the college level for 27 years, he finally retired to paint full time but not before he was awarded The New York State Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Guy’s reputation as an excellent teacher was noticed also by Educational Videos of Huntsville, Texas where he made instructional videos entitled “Watercolor Painting Made Easy”.
Kathleen Denis
Intrigued by the way sun-drenched light affects the colors of an object, I constantly look for ways to incorporate this aspect into my paintings. Starting my process begins with studies that capture the light, followed by an underpainting which also achieves this. I proceed by transforming realism into creativity in a contemporary-impressionistic style. Having grown up in South Florida, island life has greatly influenced my paintings, with brightly painted buildings, colorful landscapes and turquoise waters.
Kelly Desrosiers
I have been living and creating for over 43 years in midcoast Maine. I currently work in mixed media which includes a combination of collage, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, ink and pastel. My work ranges from landscape or seascape-inspired to abstract, but it is always informed by Maine. I have lived in wild, rural areas: the upper Midwest, Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and finally landed in midcoast Maine where I live on a small farm.
Margaret Gallagher
I began creating small pieces of art as part of my own healing process after facing a life threatening illness. Adding inspirational quotes to these pieces seemed to complete the sentiment I was looking for. My Mixed-Media art is a combination of various art materials including paint, drawings, collage, eco and mono prints, and various 3 dimensional items. I hope you enjoy the simplicity and positive affirmation set forth by each of the one-of-a-kind pieces of art.
Paul Garnett
A native of Massachusetts, marine artist Paul Garnett is entirely self-taught. For seven years he served as the shipwright on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s tall ship replica of the famous “Bounty” that was built for M.G.M.’s 1962 production of ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ starring Marlon Brando.
His artwork has been featured in Nautical World Magazine, Marine Art Quarterly and Sea History Magazine., ‘Quarterdeck,’ ‘Soundings,’ ‘ ‘The Nautical Research Journal,’ and ‘North Carolina Historical Review’ as well as the National Maritime Historical Society’s Christmas card. He has also had his paintings appear on A & E’s Sea Tales as well as The History Channel’s program History’s Mysteries and one has been licensed to be used in the background of a film due to be released in 2019.
Tom Glover
Tom Glover is a seemingly lackadaisical ne’er-do-well, but really is an artist teeming with ideas. He was class clown at Keen High School where he grew up many moons ago. His first painting sold for ten dollars when he was fourteen. It was of a horse. It was to a girl he thought was cute. He is shameless.
He is also a shameless thief. His prowess as a young comedian in high-school was mostly drawn from Monty Python sketches, Laugh-In and Peter Sellers. He steals from other artists which he justifies by citing various quips from Picasso. He teaches art/painting and often incites his students to steal from other artists.
Roberta Goschke
Roberta Goschke was born in New Castle, PA and currently resides in Waldoboro, Maine, where she draws, paints landscapes and still life. Roberta studied life drawing and oil painting at the Art League School, Alexandria, VA. She also became devoted to participating in many figure drawing groups in the Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia area including the Corcoran School of Art, and George Washington University. Her pastel drawings, depicting the Army’s involvement in Panama, are included in the collection of the U.S. Army Center for Military History in Washington D.C. Before coming to Maine, she was a member of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters and the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia. Roberta hosts a small group of artists weekly at her studio for a life drawing class.
Susan Graeber
I am a painter who reacts to shapes and patterns, light and shadows, and most of all, color. I have been influenced by Fairfield Porter, Wayne Tiebolt, Arthur Dow, Neill Welliver and Vuillard. I am married to a work on paper dealer, therefore our home and my thoughts are dedicated to collecting art and art related books. I have been drawn to Maine for over 30 years, and feel most at peace and stimulated by the landscape.
